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THE VIDEO GAME company behind games such as The Elder Scrolls series and Doom are to expand their Galway customer service centre, creating 250 jobs.
Zenimax Online has its European operations base here and plan to hire 70 French speakers, 30 German speakers as well as 150 English speakers to support online gamers.
Zenimax opened its Galway operation in 2011 and initially employed 180 people. Zenimax Online is a subsidiary of Zenimax Media, the Maryland based company which is was set up in 1986 and counts film director Jerry Bruckheimer as one of its board members.
The Elder Scrolls series was first created in 1994 and to date has published 20 titles across different platforms. ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ is perhaps the most widely known of the Zenimax titles.
The majority of the positions being created in Galway are in the area of customer services and are being hired by recruiters Kelly Services.
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“I used to be a warrior like you, but then i took an arrow to the knee.
Now I work in a customer service roll in Galway.”
Ha ha very good, that dude is famous
Skyrim took about 200 hours of my life! Brilliant game.
I was a dark elf myself. I’m not ashamed to say it, I took 3 days off from work to play it! I believe they are releasing some sort of downloadable content relatively soon!?
They have already released a few dlc’s. They are releasing an elder scrolls mmo in about two weeks tho. Looks awesome too.
200?! You must be excellent at it! At leant 300 for me I’d say
They’re expanding! Fallout 4 is coming then!!!!
Elder scrolls online is coming. It’s not just dlc but a proper mmorpg.
I wont be getting ESO with the sub fee, not a chance…..waiting till the Elder Scrolls 6!
I always wanted a Skyrim job…
jobs for foreign nationals and not dicky bird ,wake up guys
Tell me again how hard working immigrants took your job.
they’ll just hire the 2 in 1, 150 more french and german speakers who speak english, its a no brainer, or spanish in case they come in handy for them.
Nothing more to see here.
Fancy the jobs, Michael and Vince? Go to duolingo.com and learn French/German. Sorted.
Positive development .
Is it? These are dire jobs. The lowest of the low.
What’s dire about them? Not everyone is qualified for high end jobs but would still like to work.
Great to see more gaming jobs but would love to see more design jobs than customer service coming into the country, also its the same publisher but a different developer to Skyrim just for accuracy sake :)
I spent weeks playing Morrowwind. Fantastic game. Never got around to playing Skyrim or Oblivion. Must give em a whirl.
Ah man get on it! But be warned it will take over your life!
Morrowind with the expansions took a huge chunk of my life…. then with 360, getting every achievement…. forever!!!!
Even better, there’s now a total conversion mod for Skyrim which basically converts it to a high-res Morrowind. So you can have the best of both worlds if you’re not a major fan of the changes to the series.
Saw some videos for it, amazing, SkyWind I think.
I used to have a life like you…then I started Skyrim….lol
Zenimax didn’t develop Skyrim though…
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