Activision Blizzard has laid off "at least a dozen" quality assurance contractors from the Call of Duty studio Raven Software as part of a restructuring effort at the studio.

Raven Software worked with Infinity Ward on Call of Duty: Warzone and developed Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War alongside Treyarch.

According to Raven employees, the studio will be meeting with these contractors between December 3-8 to "tell them if they are being promoted or terminated on January 28." As of this writing, "about a third" of Raven Software's QA testers have been informed they are being laid off?

“I feel hurt and betrayed," One Raven Software contractor who was laid off said to TWP.

Austin O'Brien, Raven Software's associate community manager, shared his thoughts on the situation, saying he was "gutted right now" and that his "friends in QA at Raven were promised, for months, that Activision was working towards a pay restructure to increase their wages."?