In a bold display of corporate streamlining, Amazon Games announced Wednesday that it had sold not only its unreleased multiplayer battle arena video game, ‘March of Giants,’ but also the entire Montreal-based human population working on it, to French gaming conglomerate Ubisoft.

Amazon Games spokesperson Lila Hennig clarified the reasoning behind the unusual transaction: “Frankly, we realized developing games is just a lot of work. We thought, why stop at just the software when we could offload the headaches, deadlines, and awkward team-building exercises, too?”

Ubisoft CEO Jean-Claude Lemonnier praised the acquisition as a win-win. “We are thrilled to welcome the ‘March of Giants’ game, as well as 136 slightly-used developers. We look forward to assimilating them into our hive mind and assigning them to a variety of tasks, including, but not limited to, making coffee, updating our Wi-Fi passwords, and, if time permits, making games.”

The Montreal dev team seemed less certain about their future. Lead designer Marcus Tremblay admitted, “I guess this is fine. I just hope Ubisoft lets us keep our Friday bagel privileges. Also, do they validate parking in Paris?”

Industry analysts applauded Amazon’s outside-the-box thinking. “It’s only a matter of time before tech giants start bundling entire HR departments as DLC,” said gaming analyst Doreen Price. “Expect Google to put its AI ethics team up for auction by Q3.”