The axe has finally fallen from Xbox's latest round of layoffs and studio sloughing—characterised as a "reset" by its current CEO, Asha Sharma, who paradoxically wants the company to have 1 billion daily players somehow. ZeniMax Online Studios, which currently develops Elder Scrolls Online, has reportedly been hit quite hard.
That's per senior content designer Katherine Souza, who posted to her Bluesky that half the team had been axed—she's since deleted the post due to the wording, but Souza has clarified that by "'half of its team' I'm referring to is active developers working on content, events, and dungeons. I can't speak to the studio at large because I don't have those numbers".
