Recently, Bethesdaexpressed his concern Zenimax and Bethesdacurrently leads the award-winning studio Fallout, The Elder Scrollsand DOOM franchise, among others, there is The jobs were cut as part of Xbox’s company-wide “Reset” programwith Bloomberg reported that it was one of the studios hit hardest by the layoffs.
A day after expressing their displeasure, Bethesda’s Union went to Bluesky to call players and ask them to voice their concerns. The biggest wave of layoffs in Xbox history and the status of Bethesda’s future games Microsoft directly through Xbox Player Voice feedback platform.
It said, “Yesterday’s layoffs at Bethesda Game Studios were not ’14-level management cuts. We lost dozens of programmers, artists, designers, and testers. Many of them have worked at BGS for decades. If Bethesda fans are concerned that this will hurt the quality of our future games, tell Microsoft like The Elder, Scroll!”
One way to show Microsoft your concern is through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide…
— @bethesdaunion.bsky.social (@bethesdaunion.bsky.social.bsky.social) 2026-07-09T10:57:34.527Z
Hearing this, gamers flocked to the platform in droves and vented all their frustrations and criticisms at Microsoft.
Comments ranged from vile condemnation, like “If Microsoft doesn’t change course, they will was destroyed.” For constructive feedback by Percy Hartley, such as Witt Yao’s top-voted comment (over 2,500 votes) “The 3,200 layoffs at XBOX (Activision, Bethesda/ZeniMax, Blizzard, King, Mojang, Obsidian, id Software, and XBOX Game Studios) are unacceptable. It continues a pattern of more than 10,000 layoffs at XBOX in two years.”
Witt Yao continues, “Many studios have closed or their futures are in jeopardy (Compulsion Games, Double Fine, Undead Labs, Ninja Theory, Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin, Alpha Dog Games, and Roundhouse Studios) and numerous games have been canceled. Developers and gamers disagree that AX is fulfilling this reality. The community looks like this:”
He then advises on how Microsoft could potentially improve the Xbox brand with the following suggestions:
- Transparency for players – It feels bad for gamers to show off games from studios they intend to sell or shut down weeks later.
- Keep teams together – There will be no layoffs and the studio will be closed for the next 2 years. The closure of the studio hurt the studio’s fans.
- XBOX brings in more than a billion people every day – Stop limiting XBOX with unrealistic profit expectations of Microsoft Accountability Margin.
- Trust the developers – Negotiate honestly with unions and developers so that both developers and players can better articulate their needs.
- Layoffs are a failure of leadership – There is no executive bonus upon termination.
- Invest in the Future of the Game – Invest in the next generation of video game developers instead of unpopular technologies like artificial intelligence that gamers don’t want. Game development experience is a video game company’s greatest asset.
Stay tuned for more as we follow developments and reactions to the biggest shakeup in the history of the Xbox brand.
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