Toys For Bob studio, part of Activision Blizzard, will no longer make its own games. Now she will support the third season of Call of Duty: Warzone. Developers are not satisfied with such changes.
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The studio announced the transition to the ranks of Call of Duty on Twitter.
Toys for Bob is proud to support development for Season 3 of Call of Duty #Warzone, and look forward to more to come. #LETSGO dev squads! #Verdansk84 pic.twitter.com/ERmFSWeaIk
— Toys For Bob (@ToysForBob) April 29, 2021
Later, the news was commented on by designer Nicholas Kole, who worked on the characters in Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time. He pointed out that Toys for Bob is now exclusively engaged in Warzone, and “all the employees with whom he interacted have quit.”
Exactly how many developers decided to leave the studio is not reported. But at least game designer Blake Maloof, who has worked at Toys for Bob for more than ten years, told about his dismissal.
As noted by the GamesIndustry portal, now most, if not all, Activision studios are engaged in games of the Call of Duty series. So the format change in Toys For Bob doesn’t look very surprising.
Toys For Bob was founded back in 1989. Among her most famous projects are Star Control, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, the Spyro Reignited Trilogy remake collection and the Skylanders series.