Last month, MobileGamer.biz reported on how Microsoft's mass 9,000+ layoffs across the company impacted King, the mobile division acquired alongside Activision Blizzard and the home of Candy Crush, with developers being replaced by the AI tools they were forced to build. Now, MobileGamer.biz has followed up with a new report that digs further into the chaos caused by the 200 developers being cut from King, with toxic leadership making decisions that don't align with the reasons given for them, and how Microsoft has been making daily AI use for King staff mandatory.
To say that things are not great within King seems to be an understatement. Layoffs are never good for morale, and layoffs that try to replace human workers with AI tools they were building seem to have the potential to