how much of them are trannies
how much of them are poc
how much of them are jeets
how much of them are hr manager or whatever roasties
how much of them are lgbtq++- consultants
and finally how much of them are normal dudes that get actual shit done
nothing of value was lot, nothingburger
>implying any of the companies that laid off so far even matter
Anon, ActiBlizz, Ubi, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Twitch et al. Do not even make a dent at nu-vidya.
They can disappear and the "video game" industry
Is it really a crash? Sure 8k layoffs sounds like a large number but given how many companies there are and how big a lot of them are I don't really think it's that much. I'll call it a crash when trash peddlers the likes of EA or Ubisoft go bankrupt.
PC is 50% bigger than all consoles combined? I knew it was big, but not that big.
>implying any of the companies that laid off so far even matter
Anon, ActiBlizz, Ubi, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Twitch et al. Do not even make a dent at nu-vidya.
They can disappear and the "video game" industry
everything except mobile could vanish overnight and it still wouldn't dent the industry.
Consoles have been eating shit since the PS2 came out, compare it's sales numbers to everything afterwards.
8k sounds like a lot but at the same time the entire industry is just a series of rotating doors, next month or 2 another series of publishers and devs will hire most of em on and rinse and repeat.
Apparently the latest Prince of Persia was really good but their CEO had the very smart idea of saying that anyone that buys their games does not own them days before the launch of it, so it flopped hard.
Well most of them are react "developers", they just do a bootcamp, copy-paste a weather app and a dashboard app from a random youtube tutorial, and then try to sneak in an open source contribution.
No crash, millions of games exist. Before you decide to be a doomer, I would implore you to remember that many studios and projects exist that can and do make significant amounts of money. Outside of that, there is a cultural impact where those games are talked about for a significant amount of time.
At Google and Facebook all the DEI and ESG groups were let go first and then further layoffs got a few people that actually do work. When the first round of tech layoffs happened all the ESG people were crying on Twitter and it was hilarious.
When companies have a couple good years middle managers will start to install the hottest Stacies in pretend jobs as window dressing for their departments to make them feel important and have a chance at scoring. Those are usually the first on the chopping block.
Both, buth the competent ones have a better chance of finding work in other sectors, when the videogame industry eventually get back on its feet companies are either going to have to hire freshly graduated people or not treat people like shit.
>Is it the the political diversity hires getting canned or actual competent people?
a mix of both back in the pandemic, at the company I work for our HR and marketing department got stupidly large (from 10/13 people to near 56/45 people respectively) and it stayed that way for a while until november last year. HR department was restructured and now we have a diversity and inclusion officer
>Industry crashes >Trash companies go bust >Bigger companies only hire the most valued people >Understand that wokeness means shit >Stop spending billions per game >More and more releases of smaller games with actual gameplay rather than 2 hour games with multi million dollar ad compaigns >People gettired of the same old shit year after year. >Stop buying Fifa and F1 simulators
Godddamn the possibilities.
This. This so God damn much. People who play games don't care that the devs spent two weeks dev time putting 2000 micro hairs on Alloy's face. Also the in game photo mode doesn't even let you get that close to see any so it's nothing more than the devs circle jerkin.
None of these possibilities will happen, is the problem.
They'll go and re-hire the DEI investments first, because DEI means more investor money, and the thing struggling companies need most is investor buy-in. Good games come second, and even shit publishers who produce no good games can flounder along with investor buy-in instead of customers for a long, long time.
how is this an own post
everyone is a complete nobody when posting on Ganker
its for the sake of discussion to dunk on western cucks
they need to learn from the east that graphics and movie games are moronic
>ESG fund collapses, Blackrock ends it completely >Jacob Rothschild finally croaks >wokeshit falls apart across multiple industries
Part of me is happy this stupid shit might finally be collapsing, but the other part of me is genuinely baffled that apparently a fistful of people on the planet control fricking everything.
>apparently a fistful of people on the planet control fricking everything
That has always happened, history books are filled with stories about conquerors.
Do you really think that this type of person would just vanish in recent times?
Also no lay offs in Japan. It's a cultural thing, companies there only hires as many people as they can actually afford in a long run. Job security there also prevents from getting fired easily. Same as in Germany. US should learn from them
If only we learned something from the stock crash, if only we had a way to limit monopolies, if only we had unions. But at least we have free market so they guys in charge of this shitshow gets no reprecussions.
I think people seem to not realize how much those companies overhired during Covid. EA itself for example got over 40% bigger in just 2 years thats fricking insane and honestly turbo moronic that they hired so much people so fast like the frick were they thinking lol. This is just EA so imagine how much all those companies hired too. What we see right now is just proper comeback to smoking remote work and scaling down to what studios were like before publishers overhired people.
It's almost as if those mass hirings during Covid weren't set in stone...
Never in my life did I think I'd see another Vidya game crash, well Gankerros, it's our time to shine and save the industry!
New ones will fill the vacuum and make games that we actually want to play instead of intentionally making what we don't because we hate us. And it's not like wokeshit was worth playing anyway.
Only 2 things in that video that can be considered "work" are: >inventory the swag we use for events >take my meeting outside
I think laying off 8K of people like that will only help vidya making companies.
Should have happened way sooner.
The industry being propped up with ESG bux and covid spending to keep worthless people in jobs is exactly why it's facing such a big crash right now.
If it had recessed normally like every other industry, it wouldn't have resulted in a major economic catastrophe. But no, they had to keep their 200 million dollar flops churning and creating crap woke game after crap woke game with no audience except the people who hate games on twitter.
They had to do this because they felt the message was more important than the genre for incels they hate known as "video games".
So they're finally facing the music and they expect us to care.
Frick them. I'm ashamed that my tax money will be used to bail out their industries and almost all of them will get rehired or go on to infest some other industry and make the same mistakes again.
I love that every single schizo theory that Ganker has had regarding game costs turned out to be 100% factual. That marketing is the vast majority of a game's budget, and that almost none of the 300 million dollar "super games" produced the last five years has scraped together any significant profit to justify making another.
More examples of CEOs and businesses failing basic economics means they'll be kicked out of the industry and the ships they're sailing sink.
>More examples of CEOs and businesses failing basic economics means they'll be kicked out of the industry
That won't happen. The CEOs and executives won't face any consequences at all.
>every company assumes the covid bump means lines goes up forever >borrow cash to scale up and get ready to make the most of this infinite money glitch >world opens up again, normies no longer stuck in doors buying video games to kill time, sales fall back to pre-pandemic levels >at the same time interest rates skyrocket; all that 'free money' they borrowed to invest in scaling up now isn't so free >whoops no money left, quick fire everyone
All the decision makers will still make out like bandits, though. Big golden parachutes for all. Capitalism, baby!
>8100 people in the videogame business >less than 20 actually good and unique games release every year
they were coasting on the success of 90's game devs
>People who weren't even alive 10 years after the first video game crash pretending they know what a proper crash looks like.
Almost no games were being made for 3-4 years until Nintendo came out and saved the industry. >Great vidya crash.
Nope. Its the great live service game crash. AA and indie are doing fine.
none of you homosexual realize they're cutting costs and making even shittier games
have you forgotten how much of starfield is outsourced?
soon all western vidya will just be outsourced to jeets, and this is somehow good because le trannies are btfo'd?
They’ve been doing that for years, it has nothing to do with the current crash and they’ll keep doing that till people stop buying. The current crash is cutting the fat and the green hairs.
If only the people working in that industry had done their hardest to keep a loyal customer base by providing them quality products and not abused their trust by trying to push absurd goals like pre order sales or released unfinished games.
Well I'm sure the community will treat these recently unemployed people with all the same dignity and respect they were treated with.
Go tell that king tongued liar
Go tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler the gambler the
Back biter
Tell em that gods gonna cut him down
Tell em that gods gonna cut you down
>all diversity hires and woketards getting fired >call it a crash.
that's the antiseptic solution, it's burning away all the bacteria and parasites from the open wound they caused on the industry
I fricking wish, lay offs if anything else is just a strategy companies use to keep themselves alive and gain more profits as a result
whether or not it helps to finally get rid off the poison that is killing the enjoyment vidya is something yet to be seen
>every mainstream game costs hundreds of millions of dollars to make and way too many man hours/years to push out >layoffs happen when suits realize the sheer volume of money being wasted on things that are adjacent at best to the product instead of making something the target demographic wants to buy >"oh no how could this possibly happen, what does this mean?"
im genuinely surprised it took this long, did people think this was sustainable?
happen when suits realize the sheer volume of money being wasted on things that are adjacent at best to the product instead of making something the target demographic wants to buy
Executives haven't realized shit.
It's just that interest rates are high.
Expect to go back to this shit the moment they lower them.
holy frickin BASED
you might want to turn around and retrace the route you took to get here, because I'm 100% sure you dropped your crown along the way.
The crash is going to be much larger than just video games.
how much of them are trannies
how much of them are poc
how much of them are jeets
how much of them are hr manager or whatever roasties
how much of them are lgbtq++- consultants
and finally how much of them are normal dudes that get actual shit done
nothing of value was lot, nothingburger
none. those will be the last to be fired.
implying that there are enough white males employed in the first place to be fired
its diversity fluff
>how much of them are jeets
probably none since they'll pump out shitty AAA games for pebbles
This is why I don’t give a shit. The woke bubble has popped and they can go back to making games for people who play games after.
>how much
*How many
>He thinks studios actually hire pocs instead of whites that support the "cause"
Only normal people were fired
>implying any of the companies that laid off so far even matter
Anon, ActiBlizz, Ubi, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Twitch et al. Do not even make a dent at nu-vidya.
They can disappear and the "video game" industry
Is it really a crash? Sure 8k layoffs sounds like a large number but given how many companies there are and how big a lot of them are I don't really think it's that much. I'll call it a crash when trash peddlers the likes of EA or Ubisoft go bankrupt.
PC is 50% bigger than all consoles combined? I knew it was big, but not that big.
It won't crash like it did before, see
everything except mobile could vanish overnight and it still wouldn't dent the industry.
Consoles have been eating shit since the PS2 came out, compare it's sales numbers to everything afterwards.
8k sounds like a lot but at the same time the entire industry is just a series of rotating doors, next month or 2 another series of publishers and devs will hire most of em on and rinse and repeat.
SELL SELL SELL SELL SELL
Apparently the latest Prince of Persia was really good but their CEO had the very smart idea of saying that anyone that buys their games does not own them days before the launch of it, so it flopped hard.
Mobile is stealing casino market, unfair to abuse those poor grandparent before they get them
Where the woke meets the wall…
learn to code
because of this meme now the tech market is in shambles and flooded with react kiddies...
this + pajeets
Well most of them are react "developers", they just do a bootcamp, copy-paste a weather app and a dashboard app from a random youtube tutorial, and then try to sneak in an open source contribution.
Crash is coming
No crash, millions of games exist. Before you decide to be a doomer, I would implore you to remember that many studios and projects exist that can and do make significant amounts of money. Outside of that, there is a cultural impact where those games are talked about for a significant amount of time.
Good, it needs to crash before anything gets better
Is it the the political diversity hires getting canned or actual competent people?
more like extra assistants for evey department.
HR, Helpdesk, Networking and Dev departments were the most affected.
At Google and Facebook all the DEI and ESG groups were let go first and then further layoffs got a few people that actually do work. When the first round of tech layoffs happened all the ESG people were crying on Twitter and it was hilarious.
When companies have a couple good years middle managers will start to install the hottest Stacies in pretend jobs as window dressing for their departments to make them feel important and have a chance at scoring. Those are usually the first on the chopping block.
What competent people? none of them are making videogames because it's horrible as a job in the US compared to everything else
Both, buth the competent ones have a better chance of finding work in other sectors, when the videogame industry eventually get back on its feet companies are either going to have to hire freshly graduated people or not treat people like shit.
They're not getting canned without dramatic changes to the law.
>Is it the the political diversity hires getting canned or actual competent people?
a mix of both
back in the pandemic, at the company I work for our HR and marketing department got stupidly large (from 10/13 people to near 56/45 people respectively) and it stayed that way for a while until november last year. HR department was restructured and now we have a diversity and inclusion officer
Thats weird, the schizos on this board were claiming that Nintendo were the ones who were in trouble.
TOTAL
WOKE
BROKE
don't worry ai will replace them
This is a good thing, we need more devs to go indie.
I've never been so hard before
about god damn time
maybe we'll finally start getting some good innovative games again
I'm telling you the crash is coming
america is collapsing
Accelerate.
Good.
>Industry crashes
>Trash companies go bust
>Bigger companies only hire the most valued people
>Understand that wokeness means shit
>Stop spending billions per game
>More and more releases of smaller games with actual gameplay rather than 2 hour games with multi million dollar ad compaigns
>People gettired of the same old shit year after year.
>Stop buying Fifa and F1 simulators
Godddamn the possibilities.
This. This so God damn much. People who play games don't care that the devs spent two weeks dev time putting 2000 micro hairs on Alloy's face. Also the in game photo mode doesn't even let you get that close to see any so it's nothing more than the devs circle jerkin.
None of these possibilities will happen, is the problem.
They'll go and re-hire the DEI investments first, because DEI means more investor money, and the thing struggling companies need most is investor buy-in. Good games come second, and even shit publishers who produce no good games can flounder along with investor buy-in instead of customers for a long, long time.
I DONT CARE I JUST WANT PROTOTYPE 3 AND DARKSIDERS 4! THEY DESERVED BETTER
NOT MY
FRICKING
PROBLEM
Kill all women.
Odd that these companies can still function after 8000 layoffs…
even normies are waking up to how the western devs and execs are fricking moronic
>absolute nobody says the blandest, safest statement they can think of
>people repost it on Ganker as some kind of own
Why do you do this?
how is this an own post
everyone is a complete nobody when posting on Ganker
its for the sake of discussion to dunk on western cucks
they need to learn from the east that graphics and movie games are moronic
the crash happened 8 years ago and has BEEN happening
>ESG fund collapses, Blackrock ends it completely
>Jacob Rothschild finally croaks
>wokeshit falls apart across multiple industries
Part of me is happy this stupid shit might finally be collapsing, but the other part of me is genuinely baffled that apparently a fistful of people on the planet control fricking everything.
>apparently a fistful of people on the planet control fricking everything
You're just realizing this now?
>apparently a fistful of people on the planet control fricking everything
That has always happened, history books are filled with stories about conquerors.
Do you really think that this type of person would just vanish in recent times?
This isn't just vidya, a shitton of industries are going Defcon 1 right now. It doesn't look good.
Meanwhile in japan, it was announced that Nintendo are the number one company in the country.
Eat a dick, AAA Interactive TV show nonsense.
Also no lay offs in Japan. It's a cultural thing, companies there only hires as many people as they can actually afford in a long run. Job security there also prevents from getting fired easily. Same as in Germany. US should learn from them
Good. Kill it.
Diversity officers aren't game developers.
If only we learned something from the stock crash, if only we had a way to limit monopolies, if only we had unions. But at least we have free market so they guys in charge of this shitshow gets no reprecussions.
I think people seem to not realize how much those companies overhired during Covid. EA itself for example got over 40% bigger in just 2 years thats fricking insane and honestly turbo moronic that they hired so much people so fast like the frick were they thinking lol. This is just EA so imagine how much all those companies hired too. What we see right now is just proper comeback to smoking remote work and scaling down to what studios were like before publishers overhired people.
>all western devs
and nothing of value was lost that year
It's almost as if those mass hirings during Covid weren't set in stone...
Never in my life did I think I'd see another Vidya game crash, well Gankerros, it's our time to shine and save the industry!
>it's over 9,000 after Sony last layoffs
Bejitabros
you guys realize no game devs means no more new games right?
New ones will fill the vacuum and make games that we actually want to play instead of intentionally making what we don't because we hate us. And it's not like wokeshit was worth playing anyway.
This doesn't look safe
what, you need a crib?
welp, time to work on that backlog
Don't care I only play old games anyway
This will have zero effect on indie games and small studios, who are the only people making decent games.
New games like what
Suicide Squad?
Skull and Boners?
They really are just children.
>talent marketing specialist
Please tell me these meme jobs got culled first
Only 2 things in that video that can be considered "work" are:
>inventory the swag we use for events
>take my meeting outside
I think laying off 8K of people like that will only help vidya making companies.
Should have happened way sooner.
The industry being propped up with ESG bux and covid spending to keep worthless people in jobs is exactly why it's facing such a big crash right now.
If it had recessed normally like every other industry, it wouldn't have resulted in a major economic catastrophe. But no, they had to keep their 200 million dollar flops churning and creating crap woke game after crap woke game with no audience except the people who hate games on twitter.
They had to do this because they felt the message was more important than the genre for incels they hate known as "video games".
So they're finally facing the music and they expect us to care.
Frick them. I'm ashamed that my tax money will be used to bail out their industries and almost all of them will get rehired or go on to infest some other industry and make the same mistakes again.
go back to sucking dicks on redit
the industry is finally healing
MORE
Woe to the vanquished! Down with the AAA woke shit.
I love that every single schizo theory that Ganker has had regarding game costs turned out to be 100% factual. That marketing is the vast majority of a game's budget, and that almost none of the 300 million dollar "super games" produced the last five years has scraped together any significant profit to justify making another.
More examples of CEOs and businesses failing basic economics means they'll be kicked out of the industry and the ships they're sailing sink.
>More examples of CEOs and businesses failing basic economics means they'll be kicked out of the industry
That won't happen. The CEOs and executives won't face any consequences at all.
It really only took a dead rothschild to wipe out esg shit
Don't you guys know businesses always do layoffs after the new year so they don't have to file taxes for new employees.
anyone that knows a few couple things about business knows that
Cope
You have no idea just how fricked things are
new years was two months ago buddy
Larian is hiring
that's rookie numbers, if an industry crashes we have lay offs going into the 100,000 and more
>woman in the headline pic
Good! Get em all out!
GET EM THE HELL OUT
GAMEGATE 2 NOW
fire them ALL
Not a crash, just a correction.
Forgot to add the Bidenomics anon.
Mine is immune to inflation.
SHITTY INDUSTRY NEEDS CORRECTION
>every company assumes the covid bump means lines goes up forever
>borrow cash to scale up and get ready to make the most of this infinite money glitch
>world opens up again, normies no longer stuck in doors buying video games to kill time, sales fall back to pre-pandemic levels
>at the same time interest rates skyrocket; all that 'free money' they borrowed to invest in scaling up now isn't so free
>whoops no money left, quick fire everyone
All the decision makers will still make out like bandits, though. Big golden parachutes for all. Capitalism, baby!
>that woke cope that gets posted in every thread
Do they train you to do this on Resetera or something?
Seems like a great time to find people who are actually competent and make a new small-scale studio
>8100 people in the videogame business
>less than 20 actually good and unique games release every year
they were coasting on the success of 90's game devs
Which games are they going to pile in the landfill on top of ET and Fire Fly.
>but games are digital now
Shut up. Hypothetically what games?
Alan Wake 2 because no one played it
>OH BUT IT WAS KINO
OK? If I want kino I'll watch a film
The game that was digital-only? Good one bro, you really owned the libs here.
Alan Wake 2, FF7 rebirth
The only people I feel bad for are any young graduates who are actually competent, the market is completely fricked for them.
>mass layoffs good because some of the people effected are bound to be a demographic I hate!!! BASED CEOs!!!!!!!
I hate you Black folk so much
>People who weren't even alive 10 years after the first video game crash pretending they know what a proper crash looks like.
Almost no games were being made for 3-4 years until Nintendo came out and saved the industry.
>Great vidya crash.
Nope. Its the great live service game crash. AA and indie are doing fine.
>get your glasses dirty like a moron instead of taking them off first
Who does this?
none of you homosexual realize they're cutting costs and making even shittier games
have you forgotten how much of starfield is outsourced?
soon all western vidya will just be outsourced to jeets, and this is somehow good because le trannies are btfo'd?
>this is somehow good because le trannies are btfo'd
Yes. I also won't buy an jeet games.
They’ve been doing that for years, it has nothing to do with the current crash and they’ll keep doing that till people stop buying. The current crash is cutting the fat and the green hairs.
Wow, how sad.
If only the people working in that industry had done their hardest to keep a loyal customer base by providing them quality products and not abused their trust by trying to push absurd goals like pre order sales or released unfinished games.
Well I'm sure the community will treat these recently unemployed people with all the same dignity and respect they were treated with.
Took long enough.
>tfw no homely shrimpfarmer gf
what are the frogs for?
Eating more like
No, Im not kidding
>chink
take a wild guess
for farming the shrimp
French delicacy
Kefka was the good guy all along
Go tell that king tongued liar
Go tell that midnight rider
Tell the rambler the gambler the
Back biter
Tell em that gods gonna cut him down
Tell em that gods gonna cut you down
They really did go broke
After being woke
What a fricking joke
won't they just find jobs doing nothing elsewhere
>all diversity hires and woketards getting fired
>call it a crash.
that's the antiseptic solution, it's burning away all the bacteria and parasites from the open wound they caused on the industry
Good riddance as I would say.
ESG money has run out
More like its being used to bomb Gaza
They have gained so much heat lately, they're trying to lay low
Maybe in hideouts, or you could say... secret tunnels?
good. get new talent that didn't ruin the hobby. get rid of the executives as well.
I fricking wish, lay offs if anything else is just a strategy companies use to keep themselves alive and gain more profits as a result
whether or not it helps to finally get rid off the poison that is killing the enjoyment vidya is something yet to be seen
Good, what the frick kind of company with thousands of employees makes Ubislop
Based. The diversity hire purge.
This medium might survive after all.
Which programmer was it that warned people months in advance that the layoffs we're getting now were only the start of what was to come?
>every mainstream game costs hundreds of millions of dollars to make and way too many man hours/years to push out
>layoffs happen when suits realize the sheer volume of money being wasted on things that are adjacent at best to the product instead of making something the target demographic wants to buy
>"oh no how could this possibly happen, what does this mean?"
im genuinely surprised it took this long, did people think this was sustainable?
>im genuinely surprised it took this long, did people think this was sustainable?
yes because suits saw number go up
happen when suits realize the sheer volume of money being wasted on things that are adjacent at best to the product instead of making something the target demographic wants to buy
Executives haven't realized shit.
It's just that interest rates are high.
Expect to go back to this shit the moment they lower them.
good
too many DEI homosexuals and other useless c**ts doing NOTHING
Why do you guys say vydia crash? The entire tech sector is laying off hundreds of people.
I am racist schizo and I have never known defeat.
holy frickin BASED
you might want to turn around and retrace the route you took to get here, because I'm 100% sure you dropped your crown along the way.