Ex-Elder Scrolls Online Boss Breaks Silence On Game Cance...

What’s Happening

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Ex- Elder Scrolls Online Boss Breaks Silence On Game Cancelation That Drove Him From Microsoft Project Blackbird was an ambitious loot shooter that Xbox top brass reportedly loved Elder Scrolls Online Microsoft By Ethan Gach Published | Comments ( 1 ) | 𝕏 Copied! Zenimax Online Matt Firor founded Zenimax Online in 2007 and helped Bethesda shepherd The Elder Scrolls Online into one of the premier MMORPGs out there. (wild, right?)

He left abruptly last summer when Microsoft laid off dozens at the studio amid a wider bloodbath at the company and canceled the upcoming online multiplayer game he and others were working on, Project Blackbird .

The Details

He just broke his silence on the reason for his departure, confirming what the fandom had long suspected. Project Blackbird was the game I had waited my entire career to create, and having it canceled led to my resignation, Firor wrote in a January 1 post on LinkedIn which he later d on Bluesky .

My heart and thoughts are always with the impacted team members, many of whom I had worked 20+ years with, and all of whom were the most dedicated, amazingly talented group of developers in the industry. I’ve been pretty quiet the last six months, but I posted this message on LinkedIn late yesterday just to give everyone an update.

Why This Matters

I’ll put it here just to make sure it gets around Matt Firor (@thefiror. 388Z The post never mentions Microsoft directly and doesnt take aim at the decision makers at Xbox, which acquired Zenimax Online in 2021, but the move clearly left a rough taste in many veteran developers mouths. Some of Firors former colleagues went on to form Sackbird Studios to work on their own multiplayer game.

Gaming fans have strong opinions about moves like this, and for good reason.

The Bottom Line

Some of Firors former colleagues went on to form Sackbird Studios to work on their own multiplayer game. “With internal funding and full creative control, the studio is focused on crafting bold, character-driven experiences free from corporate compromises, they wrote last year .

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