

No one would listen to them, even women in director-level positions were outright ignored, talked over, and blamed for problems.”
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One source said: “Women’s opinions would be outright rejected, even for extremely basic code or games knowledge. Nine of the sources say this was compounded by “patterns of discrimination” against minority employees. “It was clear in 2018 that Undead Labs was going to focus on the State of Decay IP, and the expectations-and initial budget-for SoD3 were way higher than anything we’d done before.”Īccording to the developers, not everyone was on the same page as to what State of Decay 3 should be. Former studio head Jeff Strain wrote in a pre-emptive response piece on Medium that the acquisition was necessary for State of Decay 3 development to go ahead. Some of that has been attributed to Microsoft’s hands-off approach since Xbox acquired the studio in 2018.

While many felt positive about certain aspects of the studio, instances of mismanagement and toxic work conditions seem to have trapped the game in pre-production almost two years after its original announcement. The extensive report comes from Kotaku, who say they spoke to twelve current and former anonymous employees about working conditions at the studio. A new report has detailed troubled times at State of Decay 3 developer Undead Labs, accusing the studio of a toxic work environment.
