Quantic Dream denies Star Wars Eclipse is at risk amid strike claims

Quantic Dream said Star Wars Eclipse remains fully resourced and on track even as striking staff warned the game could be caught in the fallout from layoffs at the French studio. The reassurance landed against a very different message from workers at the company’s Paris headquarters, where the STJV union staged a national strike on June 25 and warned that the project could be sacrificed if the redundancy plan moved ahead.

The union said Quantic Dream’s restructuring plan put 95 jobs at risk. STJV separately described the company’s planned cuts as 115 layoffs and said the redundancy process was irregular, arguing that it distorted the legal categories used in the plan. The timing only sharpened the pressure around Eclipse, because a Lucasfilm delegation was due to visit the studio that same day to check on the game’s progress.

The dispute has been amplified by Quantic Dream’s recent shutdown of Spellcasters Chronicles. In May, the studio canceled the free-to-play multiplayer game after roughly three months of early access, and it said players could request full refunds for money spent during that period. That cancellation triggered layoffs and quickly fed speculation that resources would be pulled from other projects, including Star Wars Eclipse.

For a modern AAA game, “fully resourced” is not just a comforting phrase. It means a project still has the staffing, production support, and budgetary runway needed to keep moving without a last-minute rescue from another team. That is why Eclipse, first unveiled at The Game Awards on December 9 and 10, 2021, has become such a sensitive case for Quantic Dream. Official Star Wars and studio material place the game in the High Republic era and tie it to a collaboration between Quantic Dream and Lucasfilm Games, but it still has no release window.

That combination, a high-profile Star Wars license, no launch date, and a studio under pressure from layoffs, has made every new signal around Eclipse count. Quantic Dream says the game’s development is continuing as planned, but the strike over the redundancy plan has left the studio fighting to prove that the project is more than a line of reassurance.