Kabam to lay off 8% of staff and focus on mobile MMOs

Kabam company will give priority in the development of mobile MMO. Expenses for other projects will be optimized, some employees will be fired.

According to Kabam executives, the main forces will focus on the maintenance and development of mobile MMOs. The main projects of the company will be The Marvel: Contest of Champions and Star Wars: Uprising.

Browser games will continue to close. How to sell “old” mobile projects. This explains the dismissal of 8% of employees. “The changes that we will adopt today will affect approximately 8% of the staff, which will mean, among other things, the abolition of some positions related to browser games and first-generation mobile games,” the company’s representatives commented.

Recall that Kabam’s intention to leave the browser project market for mobile became known in December 2014. The fact that the publisher is selling “old” games, representatives of the company reported in January 2016.

Source: Develop Online