Reports are emerging that long-awaited MMORPG Ashes of Creation has been canceled amid mass layoffs among its development team, with former staff members at developer Intrepid Studios pointing to resignations, firings, and chaos at the company.
Speaking on LinkedIn, former Intrepid communications director Margaret Krohn says the Ashes of Creation development team, which she describes as "the heart and soul of the product", were laid off en masse, and in her original post, she says the layoffs weren't "what [she] expected".
It's not just Krohn, either. As spotted by PC Gamer, former Intrepid creative director Steven Sharif (who's also one of the studio's original founders) told the Ashes of Creation Discord server that control of Intrepid "shifted away from [him]", and that he resigned "in protest".
Sharif goes on to say that after he resigned, "much of the senior leadership team" followed suit, and then Intrepid Studios' board decided to "proceed with a mass layoff".
In closing, Sharif says the development team "acted in good faith and deserved better than the uncertainty they are now facing", but that he can't elaborate any further "due to ongoing legal and governance matters".
Intrepid Studios itself hasn't commented on this situation, but...
