Why should he be worried? He sure have tons of savings, will get a nice severance package and probably have other projects in mind. Is his employees who should be worried.

… he feel safe for about the next ~48 hours.

Famous last words.

That sounds like a terrible perspective for a CEO to have…

This reminds me of Intercept Games (Kerbal Space Program 2) recently when the creative director assured fans they were fully funded so they weren’t worried about closing. Shortly after Take Two closes their studio and everyone gets layed off. Maybe You actually should all be worried. Although the CEOs obviously have plenty of money and their studio closing doesn’t put them at risk, like it does the devs doing the real work.

To be fair, if it weren’t for pillars of eternity obsidian wouldn’t be around today. It’s a well known fact they’ve been in the situation of facing a studio closure multiple times. Fergus is well accustomed to these closures from all the way back at black Isle studios and interplay. I would imagine Microsoft is a much more reliable safety net than interplay every was.