Perfect World responds to layoffs, game project continues amid personnel adjustments

In response to recent news about large-scale layoffs, Chinese game developer Perfect World told local media outlet Southern Finance Omnimedia on Monday that the company’s gaming projects are always adjusted based on actual operations and personnel adjustments are continuously ongoing. The company’s developing game One Punch Man is still progressing, though details about the current number of development personnel were not disclosed. There were previous reports about Perfect World’s largest round of layoffs, with nearly two entire office buildings being emptied. Over a thousand people were laid off in total, and some development departments have been cutting hundreds of staff members, one Perfect World employee claimed earlier online. Perfect World, founded in 2004 in Beijing, is best known for Perfect World International, an MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game). [IThome, in Chinese]