Illuvium, an NFT game project, was restructured and laid off due to poor operations, with some core contributors choosing to take pay cuts or receive their salaries in the form of tokens. The layoffs came last year when Illuvium released three interconnected games: Overworld, Arena and Zero, covering different game genres. Despite Illuvium's ambitious vision, after years of development, the community response has not been very positive. In December, co-founder Kieran Warwick acknowledged that "concerns" about the series' gameplay were legitimate and that things had to change. Among them was Illuvium's "significant" cost reduction through tweaks such as setting a salary cap of $85,000. But this week, Warwick said deeper cuts would have to be made.