A disappointing launch for Elemental: War of Magic has resulted in layoffs at developer Stardock.

Responding to a report by Shacknews, founder Brad Wardell posted on the game’s official forums, “Elemental’s revenue was anticipated to provide the revenue both for our main games team’s next project as well as a second team. Unfortunately, that is unlikely to happen so we’ve had to start laying people off.”

Wardell said that the layoffs are the first since the company’s migration from the OS/2 market in 1998, and commented that it “sucks for all of us to lay off anyone.”

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