--- title: Disco Elysium Studio Lays Off Workers 2 Months After Its... description: ZA/UM, the studio behind Disco Elysium, has laid off 32 employees just two months after releasing ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies. Despite critical acclaim, the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/disco-elysium-studio-lays-off-workers-2-months-after-its-new-game-zeft4ytnv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Disco Elysium Studio Lays Off Workers 2 Months After Its New Game | daily.dev og:description: ZA/UM, the studio behind Disco Elysium, has laid off 32 employees just two months after releasing ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies. Despite critical acclaim, the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/disco-elysium-studio-lays-off-workers-2-months-after-its-new-game-zeft4ytnv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/zEFt4ytnV.png og:image:alt: Disco Elysium Studio Lays Off Workers 2 Months After Its New Game og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Disco Elysium Studio Lays Off Workers 2 Months After Its New Game **[80 LEVEL](https://daily.dev/sources/80lv)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ZA/UM, the studio behind Disco Elysium, has laid off 32 employees just two months after releasing ZERO PARADES: For Dead Spies. Despite critical acclaim, the game underperformed commercially. The likely cause is the studio's toxic relationship with its core fanbase: in 2021, ZA/UM fired the original Disco Elysium creators (Robert Kurvitz, Helen Hindpere, Aleksander Rostov), who later accused leadership of fraud. Fans sided with the ousted developers and largely boycotted the new game. The original creators have since founded three new studios. The layoffs highlight how management decisions can devastate the workers who had no part in the controversy. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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