Devsisters USA – the US workplace of Korean developer and writer Devsisters, dwelling of the Cookie Run franchise – is to stay open regardless of layoffs ensuing within the lack of key employees throughout the brand new 12 months.
It was reported that, following the departure of quite a lot of employees, that the studio was successfully shuttered as quite a lot of excessive profile former workers introduced their departure and the studio’s “closure”.
Now, an official assertion from Devsisters USA has confirmed that the studio will stay open.
“Whereas it’s true that we face a difficult interval, the choice to cut back our workforce has been a strategic one to handle our present monetary challenges,” says Albert Chung, director of US operations & advertising and marketing.
“Opposite to hypothesis, I need to emphasize that we’re not closing our US workplace. We’re devoted to sustaining our presence within the US, and Devsisters USA stays dedicated to delivering high quality leisure to our followers and group.”
Troubled instances
Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea Devsisters are most well-known for the Cookie Run sequence of video games. It seems that the brand new spherical of redundancies are completely centered on the Devsisters US workplace.
Cookie Run has change into a significant success for Devsisters, spawning a number of spin-off video games and an online sequence (Final Cookie Standing) based mostly on characters from the video games.
Final 12 months Cookie Run: Ovenbreak – the newest sport within the sequence – managed to acquire 45 million gamers in Korea and performed a significant half of their end-of-year financials.
Yesterday, key employees together with the director of PR at Devsisters USA, senior social media supervisor and VP of promoting took to LinkedIn to inform the story, pay their regards and search for work.
“Shortly after I left, like many within the gaming business Devsisters have been pressured to make vital layoffs to the US group, writes Scott Moscatelli, Devsisters USA former VP of promoting. “There are a lot of extraordinarily gifted of us in Social, Progress, PR, Inventive, Enterprise Growth & HR who can be found, for now!”
