Star Wars: Zero Company studio reportedly furloughed staff before launch

gamingSep 1, 202617171

Star Wars: Zero Company launched to strong praise just as reports surfaced that Bit Reactor furloughed roughly 80 percent of its team weeks before release. Players are treating the game like an XCOM-in-Star-Wars story, zeroing in on scenes that could justify an Order 66-style raid and even calling out a hoped-for mission set on Shaak Ti’s world. Alongside praise for the music and how it runs on PS5, community posts have imagined a droid-focused DLC and voiced anger that the studio’s creators and much of the team went unpaid amid a founders’ ownership dispute. The moment is split between celebration of the game’s design and concrete calls to acknowledge the people who made it under crisis conditions.

headfallsoff

@headfallsoff.com

i hope zero company's back half has some sick order 66 missions. get in the gunship boys we're doing seal team six on shaak ti

1353h ago

Eurogamer

@eurogamer.bsky.social

Most of the developers behind the critically acclaimed Star Wars Zero Company were furloughed weeks before the game's launch last week. https://bit.ly/4yjqMah

252h ago

Quoting this

nico20

ELI5: surely when a team makes a good, successful game, you'd want to keep them so they make another successful game and you make more money...? why do companies do this?

Gordon Little11

Unions, folks, the only answer is Unions.

Darren Weekes6

Make an absolute banger and still get fucked.

Isaías "McAllus"3

La industria de los videojuegos está completamente rota.

5hizzle

@5hizzle.bsky.social

Coming up on the end of Star Wars Zero Company Really been enjoying the game, let's see how it ends! twitch.tv/5hizzle

22h ago

Insider Gaming

@insider-gaming.com

Star Wars Zero Company Team Was Furloughed Before Launch, But The Game is Now a Success insider-gaming.com/star-wars-ze...

46h ago

PCGamesN

@pcgamesn.com

Bit Reactor, the studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, furloughed "80% of the team" ahead of launch. #pcgaming #star wars #zerocompany

13h ago

CriticalPixel

@critpixel.bsky.social

Bit Reactor put 80 percent of its Zero Company team on unpaid leave two weeks after launch. The team built a great game. The team is not getting paid. https://criticalpixel.gg/articles/bit-reactor-furloughs-80-percent-of-star-wars-zero-company-team-weeks-before-launch #gaming #starwars #bitreactor

22h ago

Quantum Sheep

@quantumsheep.bsky.social

Fifty hours in, not finished the story, and loving #zerocompany It’s #xcom dressed up in a #starwars suit, plus some extras for 2026, and it works *so* well! Looks great on a regular PS5, & the music’s great too! Well done everyone! Can’t believe I’m saying this but I’d welcome an expansion :)

11h ago

dustyoldbones.bsky.social

@dustyoldbones.bsky.social

Would not have bought zero company if it was public that they had “furloughed” (sure you didn’t fire them) most of the team.

12h ago

DayOne

@playday.one

A significant number of developers at Bit Reactor were furloughed ahead of the launch of Star Wars: Zero Company, as details emerge from a dispute between company…

1h ago

gamingRSS.ai

@gamingrssai.bsky.social

Most of Bit Reactor's staff, responsible for Star Wars Zero Company, were furloughed two weeks before the game's launch, affecting approximately 80% of the team. Despite the game's success, the studio is in crisis, having run out of funds and facing a legal dispute between founders over ownership.

3h ago

PlayStation Universe

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Star Wars Zero Company Dev Reportedly Had About 80% Of Its Staff Furloughed Weeks Before The Game’s Launch www.psu.com/news/star-wa... #StarWarsZeroCompany #News