Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says he was "fired" and replaced with AI: "I feel incredibly betrayed by the management of the company I've come to care about"

Update: Warhorse Studios' communications director Tobias Stolz-Zwilling tells GamesRadar+ that it doesn't discuss "individual situations" with the public. Here's the developer's response in full: "Warhorse Studios has always been a talent-driven studio, and we deeply value the people who shape our work. Out of respect for the privacy and dignity of both current and former colleagues, we will not discuss individual situations publicly."

Original story: A Warhorse Studios employee alleges the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 developer "fired" him and is replacing his job with AI.

Max Hejtmanek took to the game's official subreddit, in a post verified by Reddit moderators, to share that Warhorse Studios is apparently terminating his position. Hejtmanek worked at the developer as a Czech-to-English translator for nearly four years, contributing to Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, its various DLCs, and some of its marketing materials.

"Yesterday, March 27th 2026, with no forewarning, I was invited to a meeting and promptly told that, in an effort to 'make the company more effective' and 'save finances', as of next month, my position at the company would become 'obsolete' in favour of using AI for all translations going forward," the developer writes.

"This came as a huge shock to me, as though the discussion about using AI for translating had frequently come up in the past, something I was always strongly and vocally against, but never to the extent that it might actually cost me my job in the future," he adds. "It had, of course, crossed my mind many times, but I naively thought my work at WHS was valued enough that I might not be at immediate risk."

"I feel incredibly betrayed by the management of the company I've come to care about greatly these past almost 4 years, and am heartbroken I won't get to see my friends and colleagues at the office every day." Hejtmanek continues to say that he wants to remind folks "that the growing use of AI greatly affects people in the games industry and many others, and I thought you should know how much the company that makes the games you love value the work of their employees, not to mention the environment."

We've reached out to Warhorse Studios for comment on the story.

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