What future for Microids Studio Paris employees? Difficult to say. According to the information of Figaro, the structure, a microids subsidiary and the property of the media partipations publication group, it will close its doors this summer. Therefore, all his thirty employees are fired.
Gautoz journalist from Gaming Origami, also announced on April 11 a “team’s complete dismissal project”.
If the structure worked so far in some “great projects”, only Amerzone’s remake will have time to be published on April 24. A work safeguarding plan is negotiating with elected officials of the CSE.
Reduce the number of outputs
According to the information of Figaro, the group of participations in the media, a study shareholder, now wants to renounce in family games and reduce the amount of annual outputs, to give the teams to finish the games.
Microids is a specialized study in Games with low budget or average budget. Notably organized several literary heroes such as Asterix, the Smurfs or the Marsupilami. Sometimes with great success. At the beginning of the year, theAdaptation of Bernard Werber’s cult novel, AntsHe was appointed in the “best independent” and “visual excellence” category in the Pegasses 2025.
But behind some bright titles are also hiding heavy failures. This is, for example, the case of adaptation in Tintin’s game, launched when it was not reproducible, or the title XIIIInspired by the homonymous comic strip. Same observation for the game Flashback 2described as “disaster” for criticism. And the difficult economic situation in the sector has organized anything.
Games released “under restriction”
Last February, the employees explained to Tech & CO so that the games were “under the restriction” and reported the degraded working conditions.
Therefore, the media participation group has decided to direct the study. A few weeks ago, Stéphane Longeard, former CEO of the study, was also replaced by Michael Sportouch, former vice president of the Giant Activision Blizzard in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal until 2018.
Contacted by Tech & Co, Microids has no “comments” to do. The study, however, confirms the launch of The Amerzone on the scheduled date.
Source: BFM TV
