![]() The report added that while what happened next wasn’t entirely clear, Microsoft’s own human resources got involved, and Schlosser quietly left at the end of one work week. ![]() “It got to the point where nearly every week, someone would sob on a video call with me, because I was the only one who would listen to them,” said one current developer.Īccording to three employees, an August 2021 meeting revealed to multiple staff members at Undead Labs they all felt the same way about the current cultural state of the studio. There’s also mention of former head of people and culture Anne Schlosser, who staff said would sometimes ignore concerns and complaints and even side with “bad actors” at the studio. One male employee apparently said “You don’t look as pretty as normal today,” and “I’m surprised a girl like you has this job.” What it was in actuality was studio leadership painting a DEI face for Microsoft, while women were consistently ignored, dismissed, interrupted, talked over, and blamed,” said a former developer.Īnother former developer said that men would ask them to take notes during meetings, ignore their knowledge and make sexist comments. “When I interviewed at the Lab, I was sold a studio in transition that was making a top priority. We needed to protect the jobs, benefits, and work culture we’d built up over the past eight years, and so we were receptive to acquisition discussions with Microsoft,” Strain added.Īs outlined in the report, staff at Undead Labs also highlight how the studio was home to discrimination against female, non-binary and other marginalised groups employed there. Add that to the other reasons and 2024 seems like the earliest.“When you own an independent studio you are personally responsible for it-if you fail a milestone and don’t get paid, you have to cover the payroll personally-and SoD3 was going to be way beyond anything we could personally back financially. State of Decay has a track record of being release later in the life cycle as it came out in 2013, 8 years after the 360 came out and the sequel came out in 2018, five years after the release of Xbox One. High profile titles such as Avowed, Fable, and Perfect Dark but did not include State of Decay 3. ![]() Lastly, is that when speaking on the Kinda Funny Gamescast, Jeff Grubb went over an internal document from Microsoft about their games expected to release by 2023. Some of the people interviewed felt that the studio was making the right moves and that major progress on State of Decay 3 could finally start happening. However, the article also noted that in recent years, post Microsoft acquisition, Undead doubled from 60, now have a new leadership team, 42 percent of recent hires were women or non binary, and 29% were visible minority. Third, a recent Kotaku report, is that the studio may be experiencing some growing pains after the success of the second game and are now dealing with common industry problems like crunch and toxicity. Second, you have to factor that pandemic landing squarely in the middle of development and how well Undead Labs was able to pivot. Best case scenario that puts State of Decay 3 at 2023, if things were going great which is sounds like they aren't. Way back in 2020 before the release of the Xbox Series X and S, one of the hype trailers to get people excited about the future of Xbox was State of Decay 3 and since it has been a long time the reveal of State of Decay 3, its worth turning over some rocks to see when it might release.įirst, we can take a look at the time between State of Decay and State of Decay 2, which is five years from early summer of 2013 to late spring of 2018.
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