The Moon Studios case continues to bring out other details that involve in this case too Microsoft Xboxwhich she would have decided to interrupt the close collaboration relationship with the indie team after taking knowledge of controversial behaviors adopted by the studio leaders.
According to reporters Jeff Grubb of VentureBeat and Jez Corden of Windows Central, Microsoft was aware of the controversial and problematic management of the team and employees, which would have contributed to the decision not to continue the collaboration. Indeed, the new game from Moon Studios will be published by Private Division and no longer from Xbox Game Studios, despite the successes achieved with the Ori series.
As we have seen in the past few hours, the managers of Moon Studios, Thomas Mahler and Gennadiy Korol, have been accused of having created an oppressive work environment, according to several testimonies of developers who worked on the team’s games collected in particular by VentureBeat .
Despite being responsible for two splendid games such as Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wispsboth celebrated by critics and the public, these would have emerged from a particularly painful working process for many developers.
The testimonies speak above all of psychological pressures and a rather toxic culture, which tended to humiliate and bully employees or use tones that were not in keeping with a healthy working relationship. This according to reports from various developers who took part in the studio’s projects, while in the meantime the managers responded to the accusations, partially apologizing for the behavior held.
“Microsoft was aware of the situation and there is a reason why, once the work on Ori 2 was finished, it was Private Division who took care of publishing the next project and not Microsoft,” said Grubb, despite the results achieved and the excellent economic conditions that a big publisher like Microsoft Xbox could have guaranteed. This reason would be precisely the reputation that was being built around Moon Studios and in particular the two leaders of the team.
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