Best have a game awards to hide that.
“Scrappiest Studio Award” to the team who shipped a decent game after 70% of their team was laid off. What an inspiration, just look at the adorable bags under their hunted eyes. Go crash and burn somewhere, guys. We’ll put out a call for contracts when we need you again
Isn’t the video game industry booming? What’s up with the layoffs? Is this the work of ChatGPT?
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Unreasonable expectations: every game must be the next cod or Fortnite otherwise it’s a failure
How else are you going to support the salaries of so many useless hangers-on who don’t actually contribute to the product!
Corporate bonuses gotta come from somewhere
Also gamers dont help. “This game wasnt exactly what I wanted and had a few minor day 1 bugs they patched within a week… utter trash”
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Yeah, the 3 biggest flops universally panned by reviewers and gamers alike made by studios that should have known better… not what I’m talking about.
Im talking about games that were just “ok” like IMO Diablo 4 It was what it said on the tin, by and large it worked and despite me not thinking it was worth launch pricing, I’d agree with its 6 stars on Steam. I exchanged some money and I got some game. Now go and read the sheer vitriol in the negative reviews… you would think Diablo 4 killed their nan and made them watch.
The games industry is shrinking post COVID boom, companies expanded massively to try to capitalise on that and now the money isn’t there anymore. The games industry is always bad for layoffs, with staff being seen as an unnecessary expense post project in many cases. Additionally the tech sector is experiencing a unheard of levels of bad year (something like a 700%+ percent increase in layoffs according to at least one research group) which is contributing.
