What is causing the mass layoffs in the gaming industry?
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purple hairs
Economy is collapsing but please continue to pretend its whatever personal political reason, in a few years you won't be able to shitpost anymore so enjoy your time
They're right. It happened to comics too and they switched to anime and manga; which is why there are more weebs than ever now.
>flood country with immigrants
>allow women and minorities into politics
>economies start to shit themselves
curious
Butthurt woketard
See you in two years posting about two more weeks.
Collapses are slow nimrod, especially when the government are trying to slowly collapse the nation
Yeah, who could forget the Summer of Hell
The funny thing is I believe you, but in two years we'll still be talking about it
you are right, but the first thing a business will cut is the useless woke fluff.
Do pray tell why the economy is collapsing then? Perhaps it's because a certain US President decided putting a minority group before everyone else and enforcing strict rules because of a cold... Cause and effect anon, cause and effect. Economies don't just collapse on their own
>Why is the economy collapsing?
Because of multiple reasons all interacting, but probably the largest and most responsible for the economic situation is just that the entire world is currently going through a rough economic period. Countries like Japan, the UK, and soon to be China are entering recessions and globalism has tied all economies together.
>a certain US President decided putting a minority group before everyone else
elaborate
Is he wrong? It's why we're dying.
no way White House said American economy is the strongest it's ever been are you telling me Biden is lying
I dont need the economy to have everything I need including electricity and games. Have fun being bad noob.
Here is your (you), go back. You can return when you see reality for what it is.
Everything will be fine, Mr. Biden.
The economy isn't collapsing. It is being murdered and the people responsible have names and addresses.
Economy is only collapsing if you have commercial real estate exposure. Biden being hands off let Powell basically reel in their money supply outside of the country.
2 more weeks.
Accelerate.
>it's definitely not the woke policies that are causing the economic collapse
But I thought America was doing just fine in Bidenomics and inflation isn't a big deal??
>Economy is collapsing
And who caused this again, pray tell?
I did.
And I'd do it again.
It was
and there's shitting frick that we can do to stop him.
The economy is collapsing *because* of the personal political wankery the last decade of politicians have attempted to push.
Feels aren't profitable.
Im making six figs in healthcare. Im good lol
thats cute you think your paper money will be worth anything soon
If people actually wised up about their crooked healthcare system, those six figs wouldn't save you from being nailed to a cross.
Where do all these reddit takes keep flooding in from? Or are these posts just poor mans bait?
Most scammers aren't as moronic as you and won't shill for free a failed ideology, so when the propaganda money dries they seek more profitable grifts. I am sorry you are literally the dumbest moron in your cadre and couldn't see the painting on the wall.
Don't worry, sucking dick will always be a viable work career, and you seem to have a talent for that.
>Most scammers aren't as moronic as you
>sorry you are literally the dumbest moron in your cadre
which is it?
my industry is fine
While this economy is failing us, the last thing I'm spending my hard earned money on is purple haired video games
>in a few years you won't be able to shitpost anymore
on the contrary I get paid even now to post here because I have a cushy job as hotel desk helper so cope lmao
>games follow the same path as western comics
>games die like western comics
Dilate harder.
The economy is downstream from politics.
The economy is collapsing because these politics
>Economy is collapsing
thanks for your uninformed opinion on the economy, doomer
>in a few years you won't be able to shitpost anymore
i dunno, i was able to shitpost through the entirety of the great recession, i think we'll all be fine
i think Black folk and israelites do not deserve human rights
The economy is bad as you said and you homosexuals are simply horrible at managing your budgets. I will laugh at your future prospects of you being homeless.
Woke is dying
>Baldur's Gate 3 sells 10 million copies and becomes game of the year
Um...chuds?? I thought going woke meant going broke??
nice try chudilator, it sold because the baldur's gates name, pozzed shit without something like that does not
>Baldur's Gate 2 sales: 200,000
>Baldur's Gate 3 sales: 10,000,000
Yeah that totally adds up, those ten million definitely bought it because of a 20 year old CRPG
BG2 came out in the 2000s.
23 years ago when 3 launched
good
The ESG black gold is depleted
That sucks that the jobs they had and the skills they've gained do not transfer to other jobs.
They don't have any skill. That's why they're losing their jobs.
Elon nuked like 70% of his company and it made operating costs skydive and helped grow his company and now everyone is copying him since Biden fricked the economy and made everyone's money worthless worldwide
ChatGPT post.
That's because 70% of the company was redundant and not needed and wasn't because of people constantly making terrible products for an audience that doesn't exist.
I mean, those two are not mutually exclusive.
>helped grow his company
The valuation of twitter is down over 70% and ad revenue is down 60%. Cash flow is still negative.
So he didn't "help grown his company"
you think "go woke go broke" was just some dumb meme?
It mostly is.
cope
even with blackrock and vanguard using their trillions to keep this shit afloat, the industry is still crumbling.
The industry is healing.
I know you're a tripgay with a secure trip code but please try to understand that it's really not.
The upper and mid level management israelites responsible for bringing in DEI hires will remain in the industry.
When they see more ESG investment opportunities in the future, they will jump up on it and repeat the cycle again.
Everyone despises wokeshit
Cutting costs
EGS and DEI finally being realized as the poison pill. Blackrock cut back on ESG investing.
Also games like Palworld, and HD2 are basically kicking triple A studios in teh teeth by making a game for less then 40 bucks, and dominates 70 dollar games, that took 10x the cost to make and 10x the time as well.
AAA studios basically have become bloated with corporate bullshit to the point they can no longer operate effectively.
you
have
to
back
homosexual
>go
If you are going to try and insult me, get every word in that you need to.
Black person.
>AAA studios basically have become bloated with corporate bullshit to the point they can no longer operate effectively.
This, people don't truly understand how deep the woke rabbit hole goes.
The bloat is needed for the companies to sink their hooks into our world and stay there. They need huge teams to pretend all the revenue they earn is a big pie going to be sliced a big family when we all know the CEOs get 80% of the profits. Also suddenly a privately owned entertainment company having so many people working there means there's more at stake if they go belly up, you don't want all those hard working people to get laid off, do you?
There's just too much games and not enough time to play them all
AAA games' development costs have inflated to completely unsustainable levels
To say nothing of their admittedly dogshit quality, if you gotta have the success of a major blockbuster to "break even" you're probably going too far
and remember, their next move isn't to make cheaper games, it's to make 100 dollar the new base price
I don't even understand why this even became a thing.
At least a ticket for a movie is cheap, but for videogames you're counting on people spending $60/$70 dollars on your proyect. It's pure madness.
gotta think of the investors, sonny. gotta spend big to win big
Companies are sick of overpaid underachieving workers put shit behind schedule and the game flopping on release. Which is not to say the blue haired wokes are solely to blame the suits at the very top are also because they seem to think the game industry has infinite growth for revenue, which is a moronic concept.
Long story short the industry is in for a small downsizing because it's not the infinity money maker people thought it was going to be
It is worth noting that the worst of this is hitting American companies in particular. European and Asian companies are taking hits too, but it is nowhere near as bad in them, because they (generally) have been better in avoiding bloat than the US industry that has been aping the tech business strategy of always putting corporate expansion first. Now they are paying for it because the eternal growth of profits didn't happen linearly with the eternal expansions of corporations.
That American capitalism baby. Release a worse product than last year, make it cheaper and cut corners, while expecting an all time high of profit. When it starts to fail bail or pray for a government bailout
who cares
AAA budgets are unsustainable. Almost every triple A game needs to make double digit millions of sales with a $70 price tag to be profitable. There simply isn't a paying audience to make remotely all of those games worth making even if they all were good.
AAA finally reached the breaking point of being too expensive, the fact insomniac also got hit by this shit despite spiderman 2 selling gangbusters only proves it.
If you need to make record breaking sales every time you release a new game to break even, you're at the point of living on borrowed time.
moronic execs chasing endless growth feeling pain finally from endless expansion policies. Collapsing under their own weight as people tighten belts and . They are too big, spending recklessly, aiming too high, and often too out of touch with their audiences.
>industry goes to shit because of moronic CEOs and managers taking every possible bad decision and prioritizing short term profits over sustainability
>react by cutting QA, developers and artists
>replace senior workers with pajeets and juniors
I'm sure this won't have disastrous consequences in a few years, when companies don't have the know-how and there is no one left to teach the new blood
Meanwhile japanese studios can actually create competent and long-lasting teams because they focus on employee retention
Don't forget clueless ceos firing vets thinking AIs will do everything.
>Meanwhile japanese studios can actually create competent and long-lasting teams because they focus on employee retention
Nintendo hires a frickton of temp workers and subcontractors for their game developments, and when the projects are done they get the boot. Because they are considered outside hires they can report that they do not participate in massive layoffs even though they probably can just as many people as Ubisoft, ActBlizz or whatever.
Underneath any rock are a colony of bugs
Not the heckin DEI hires…
>Oh no, when there isn't any benefits for the company to hire incompetent idiots that would just bleed it dry, they got fired. How could we have seen this coming?
I just wish that these lay offs would actually mean games would get better, but we all know they won't. The fricking idiots in director positions are still there and they believe in the cause. It's only the people in supervisory roles that got rid of these lay abouts and they don't have any say in what actually goes into the game, just the people working on it. Don't stop, until these studios die and people make it known why the games stopped being blockbusters, they will never learn and gaming won't go back to the way it was.
true.
oh, people aren't buying as many games right now? This means we could
>take more time and allow developers who are talented more creative freedom to make a vision
or
>make less game, markup the price, and keep selling ads on the Video Game Awards, Superbowl ads, and keep our celebrity cameo by Joe Pesci to sell our outer space war game
>hire people based on skin color instead of skill
>wtf why are all our products shit AND more expensive??
See, I read this as:
>WHY AREN’T THEY FIRING MORE WHITE PEOPLE!?!??!!!?! WHO GIVES A FRICK IF THEY LOSE THEIR JOBS!?!???!??!? WHAT ABOUT THE WOMEN AND MINORITIES!?!??!??!???
y'all... my heart goes out to these folks 🙁 if any of y'all know of any job openings that are available for these folks please let them know so they can land on their feet
my grocery store is always hiring. Was during the pandemic when millions were let go or on unpaid leave sitting on their asses getting government checks. If they weren't willing to put in the work then, why would they now?
They say they're hiring, then they tell you to go online, and then you get rejected.
You remember how busy stores were during the pandemic, right? They needed all the help they could get. Honestly, Imagine what red flags you must have on an interview to get rejected by a Kroger during the lockdowns.
Dunno, I could show you my resume (redacted of personal info).
In all honesty, I'm sorry they did that and that sucks. I can't fathom why they did, perhaps this store in particular was already fully staffed? Either way that's so unusual that I can fathom how frustrating that was and I hope your career has or will recovered well
Wait, so are they saying that people were being fired from DEI departments (that they're mislabeling as "groups") disproportionately, or are they saying these companies literally hired minorities to place into designated "DEI groups" that could then be fired as a group later when the money runs out?
I think they're saying developers. But DEI is now its own huge, expensive branch within HR (which does nothing to make video games better or sell better) so those offices were probably hit too. But it would be weird to only enforce DEI policies on certain dev groups. Possibly some dev groups are sophisticated to the point where they are a niche market and not entry level positions, so DEI can't really do anything about them.
Oh so sad.... people that are only fit to flip burgers should be flipping burgers.
literally healing
DEI HEA
>Literally the diversity hires getting the kick
The general video game consumers aren't buying their games
They have to fire people before they try to introduce AI so they don't get sued for replacing people with AI.
You want to know THE TRUTH Anon? Its much simpler than you'd thought. Here goes: Nobody need 5000 people to make a video game, or even two at the same time.
AI replacement
Sloppa age is coming
Sloppa age will lead to golden age
bring it on
It's literally just the result of covid overhiring, nothing special or mysterious about it.
They have to start hiring white and asian males only again.
Everyone is having layoffs, this isn't exclusive to gaming. The economy sucks right now.
>tfw got laid off at start of the year and going to be unemployed until summer and even that will be fixed term job
Thank god I live in a country with NEETgibs.
And it's all the same reason of diversity.
Um no sweetie, Bidenomics created a booming economy
They hired beyond their means and they knew it. They made a bunch of expendable positions, told them it wasn't a temp position and then when the time came for the budget to get slashed, did away with the positions. They have been doing this since forever, but they don't usually hire so many people. From ESG money and the pandemic, they knew that a lot of people would be staying at home and have free time and they had a lot of disposible money at that time. So it was easy to hire some idiots, make them work for 2 years and then finally fire them when the money would start to dry up. The issue is that they didn't get the returns they thought they would, because turns out, people don't fricking like ESG bullshit ruining the look and feel of their games.
>all kinds of reasons
ah those socio-economic factors again
>Covid money drying up, no more free government money for companies or for consumers to spend
>Ukie rukie war doing some funny things to the global economy
>Several very high profile flops in the last 2 years
Anyone that wasn't expecting a downturn is moronic
Massive budgets + game dev times getting to the point of absurdity. Suicide squad took 8 years to develop, the same amount of time it took the original arkham trilogy to develop. It's getting to the point that a single game will take an entire console generation to come out.
Add this to the fact that there's a very real chance the game will just bomb on release and of course companies are realizing this shit isn't sustainable
If every game tries a live service model, or even shows off a roadmap, do they ultimately believe in infinite growth to some degree? That doesn't seem viable but people don't realize that when money is flying left and right. Seems like developers (at least the AAA ones) are trying to capture that lightning in a bottle. Do people not set some kind of attainable goal that lets them get maybe 500% back what they put into it?
>make game live service
>rake in the money
>take that money and invest it in a different product
>still charge live service prices but dont actually provide live service content
>people get mad at being scammed
>oh no why is the game failing how can this happen
the problem is that the industry, in fact most industries at this point, are filled to the brim with grifters, conmen, scammers, and dead weight that just exist to parasitize said industry. Gamers have absolutely no problem what so ever paying for content, for services, ect but what ultimately happens is the publisher takes the money and rolls it into a new product to start the cycle all over again, with the devs and publishers jerking each other off all day long while gamers sit in abandoned products that have been gutted and abandoned. No one is held accountable, and the victims (the players) end up taking the blame.
'cause my erection was too much for them to handle.
Free money at low interest finally started to die out in the 2020, spooking a lot of investors into being stingier with their money. Then COVID came along and convinced a lot of people that consumers would be spending the rest of time buying a shitload of things online, and a lot of tech companies got a money infusion and massive hiring boost.
Now that AI is the big new thing and investors are being stingy about investing, the bubble tech companies blew up during COVID is bursting.
Tech has enjoyed basically unlimited vulture capital in the past several years because these wienersuckers let them have effectively 0% interest rates for a while. I think at the end of 2022 they upped it to like 3% or something and these losers can't even manage that small amount. And of course the CEOs aren't going to slash their pay when they're so close to being able to get Little Saint James 2 up and running, so the lowborn riffraff get the axe. Extraordinarily simple, the culprit as always is our moronic infinite growth economic models and the sort of insatiable, individualistic hypergreed that only a nightmare hellscape like America can develop. Eventually they'll run out of remora fish idpol losers to cut and your job is next.
The next year is going to be full of massive upheavals and a lot of cross want their bigger bonuses now before they punch out and leave while the leavin's good.
Right wing parties are on the rise, wokism is dying, troons are roping. We WILL have nazism again, and this time we'll do it RIGHT!
Have any of these layoffs affected any actual GOOD studios? Best I can think of is Eidos.
I don't think I can even name a single good studio
fromsoft hasnt been hit with layoffs AFAIK
the new deus ex getting canned was a fricking tragedy, but it probably would've ended up being trash anyways with the direction MD was threatening to go in
During the pandemic the game (and tech) companies hiring thought that this boom period of people consuming digital media would last forever, and they hired well beyond their means.
Now that it turns out that hey, people do actually want to do normal things again they are completely flabbergasted. And they need to keep the numbers going up somehow.
either they only make bad games or they over hired, specially both
Uh bros, what happened?
>uh oh someone put a rainbow graph in an article
Yeah I guess all those layoffs didn't happen and none of those cvs and walgreens and targets closed due to blm riots and thieving either.
Meanwhile in reality
fax
>Kid Rock says Bud Light bashing was just a “tantrum with a machine gun”
Is this really the smartest thing to do? When a large enough number of people cost a company $27 billion dollars in stock value is it really the best idea to try and defend a major corporation by shaming people for being upset and accusing them of being juvenile? Isn’t this the same guy people went after for flying a “Confederate flag” at his concerts?
And then those same "conservatives" who hate trannies will see the lower stock price and buy the dip, thus returning value to the stock. They can't help themselves. Like flies on shit. The problem has always been capitalism.
Hope they ship you commie homosexuals out to your shithole of choice to realize how fricktarded any of your ideals are when compared to capitalistic countries
>by Miles Klee
Wow very impressive muscle mass. This guy is a BEAST!
>please don't believe your lying eyes the article
Believing your eyes is antisemitic, chud!
Meanwhile, in the real world.
its so funny to me, the Dylan Mullvany Bud Light thing was worse than Target. So what if they wanted to sell ladies swimsuits with dickbags in them? If they don't sell that should be punishment enough
And here I thought game companies were never honest...
People are disgusted by homosexuals, that's evolutionary, you're a literally genetic abomination. The herd feels a deep need to cull you from the group.
I just watched a video on Epstein and I was quite shocked to see how much he was into this company
And humans are more than mere animals who are slaves to impulse.
how
If we did everything our animal instincts told us, we would never have harnessed fire, or dared to truly face down and kill our predators to get where we are. We'd still be worthless prey animals being hunted by sabercats.
>bloated budgets with negative or minimal returns
>live service bubble has burst
>price increases
>games are not released as a finished product and are often broken for months or years
>games have homogenized and have become indistinguishable
>the expansion from the covid area has ended
>constant virtue signaling and politics in games where it didn't serve the game narrativly and just felt ham fisted (like having more time dedicated to playing as a deaf black girl doing woke graffiti instead of playing as Venom in Spiderman 2)
>developers talking down to, and thus driving away, the core gaming audience that built the industry throughout the 90s-2010s
>companies trying to monetize every aspect of a game that they possibly can
>current gen still being cucked by last gen 4 years into its life cycle
>casuals aren't dedicated hobbyists like the hardcore and eventually lose interest
>not enough shmups
it's a culmination of all these factors and the gaming industry only has itself to blame
>live service bubble has burst
You're saying that the model of "game regularly gets content updates and also has monetization" has burst? Delusional.
he's absolutely right and the list of live service games that launch and die within a few months continues to grow
>he's absolutely right and the list of live service games that launch and die within a few months continues to grow
Of course they do; most live service games as garbage. So are most traditional AAA games, which makes sense when you consider that they're made by the same companies. It's just that the traditional games don't need to be kept online constantly, once they got your money their job is finished.
There is literally not enough people on earth to sustain live service garbage. You have to give sexy and gameplay. A good story is a bonus.
It's why genshin took off. Its why everything new western made that isnt f2p gets shutdown first year more often then not.
The bubble has burst. Because it would be faster to burn the money in a barrel out behind their corp hq.
>There is literally not enough people on earth to sustain live service garbage.
The whole point of live service is that you only need a small number of whales to sustain the games. Which is true, btw.
>The bubble has burst.
The live service "bubble" can't burst because "live service" isn't a genre. It's like saying "the DLC bubble has burst", it makes zero sense.
it'd be more accurate to say the live service/GaaS model is at near full saturation now
companies are going in thinking "yeah bro we can be the next Fortnite/CoD/etc and make loads of money!" not realising those games have already eaten most of the pie and them and everyone else coming in now are essentially fighting over crumbs in the bottom of the tin
Overhiring during Covid and going for live service games when there are just less kids being born to whites and asians.
Covid era boom is over
AAA gaming development consequences has come to roost
The israelite has been found out and companies are pulling out
>bad financial bet, a failed game, a deal falling throught, or any number of other things
>any number of other things
As always: "not for woke reasons!"
>It's not for woke reasons, we just hate men
>Goldstein
Fricking hell, every goddamn time with these frickers I swear
I don’t care how it happens I just want more layoffs, all Am*ricans deserve endless suffering.
I just don't feel like buying a 70$ game day one anymore. I wait for it to go on at least -30% sale if people who bought it actually like it. Helps that games are released unfinished anyway so I actually get the best version for cheaper.
gotta be honest with you mate, i instantly lose any interest in games that are 70$ or above in general
no matter if it gets 50% off a year later or i can pirate, i just don't feel like playing em
>pay 79€ for a game
>is released unfinished
Gee why I dunno?
just alone for giving gina torres such facehugger haircut they deserve it
over hiring during the pandemic
also, the games they've been making have sucked ass
AAA budgets got too big
>covid happens
>gobbernment gives corporations up to 4 times their projected yearly income as a bribe to follow illegal mandates, suggestions, ect
>corporation takes the bribe and uses 4 times their projected yearly income to hire their friends and family into unsustainable fake positions that produce no actual value to the company
>covid stimmies run out and shareholder kun is trying to figure out why they are losing money instead of gaining money after following the instructions and recommendations of nepotist hypocrits
>lol layoff time 😉
big mystery.
This is why I invest in oil to counterbalance tech.
You can't get away from tech, and AI is going to replace leftists at some point but you have to hedge against it because of exactly what you're saying.
Oil is the opposite of ESG, and the real practical driver of capitalism.
>ESG investment funds drying
>Brand recognition being destroyed by altering the brand for "modern audiences"
>small studio games outselling AAA multi-million dollar productions
>investors realizing that infinite growth models can't be applied to entertainment companies
>boomers at big corporate owners like Microsoft and Sony are starting to realize that they were sold a lie that women and homosexuals are really into video games and will spend more than men do
Here ill translate this. There was a failed financial "bet" because they borrowed too much money. Too much money because they made a shit "failed" game that flopped because they didnt make it fun. They then lost "deals" because nobody wants to willingly give them ip to shit up unless you are already into that hole
Like disney
Bloated companies making expensive garbage by comity that no one wants.
Meanwhile the biggest games so far have been made by small teams that just like good games. They also happen to be under $60.
Because those jobs are being outsourced to India.
?
All these tech companies have laid off tens of thousands of people, profits skyrocketed and the business wasn't really affected. It's obvious they massively over hired, the "day in the life" TikToks where 25 year old bimbos do zero work and consume company resources all day show that. It's a correction that was badly needed.
The woke industry is dying, get woke go broke is real, and the morons hired within these studios are simply not making good products for these companies to stay afloat primarily because the people hired within them are placed there under quotas/race mandates, and to be frank, technology will do a significantly better job than what these freakshits can do.
Wokism/DEI is a luxury, it's expensive and doesn't contribute anything to your organization, it's a signaling thing, like a fancy watch. Sales of Rolex boom in good times, but in lean times, not so much. Exactly the same thing but on a corporate level.
It really is though. It's companies saying "we are so rich we can afford to have ugly worthless unproductive Black folk on the payroll, and take the sales loss from having ugly Black folk on the front cover of our game".
The largest companies aren't producing products that enough people want to buy verses the money they are pumping into them.
Loot boxes failed.
Live service failed.
Appealing to Twitter sensibilities failed.
Making the same game but cheaper failed.
Trying to convince everyone that you should pay $70-$100 for these things is failing.
Sure, you'll find a few success stories in there, but the failure rate is extremely high, and when they fail they fail spectacularly because of the insanely inflated production costs.
The companies that are still doing well are the companies that aren't doing that shit for the most part.
Overhiring of shit DIE “talent”
The answer is everybody is doing layoffs. This isn't isolated to video games. The economy is in the absolute shit right now. Most job postings are fake so they can get tax credits for saying "we're undermanned but look we're trying to find people" and pointing to their job listings with over 2,000 applicants.
Several reasons.
Chief among which is that global society, and the first-world in particular is still living in an ongoing depression that's lasted nearly 20 years and is rapidly running out of disposable income to use on bread, let alone circuses. When you keep churning out a bunch of shitty entertainment, people are going to spend their limited funds on something that won't be shitty, like food or plumbing. Then your company is going to lose money from not selling so much garbage, and you'll have to cut your losses, which means firing dead weight.
Massive hiring cycles of total incompetents followed by no more free money now that inflation hit and CEOs have to look good for Q1 and Q4 reports if they want to get another high-paying job down the line.
get woke, go broke
if blacks vanished, what sector of society woulf suffer?
part of it is probably just the same reason tech had big layoffs last year, it's just now hitting gaming because their projects last a lot longer
Good point - a lot of games were pushed back to 2023, so once they came out, it was time to rethink the organization. I fully expect Rocksteady to shut their doors in 2024, same thing.
IGN isn't being very subtle here by putting one of the reasons these games are failing dead center in the article.
All this can be traced back to one thing, and it's the ridiculously bloated budget for games with millions of dollars going to unnecessary pieces of the whole (particularly marketing).
The industry really needs AA development to come back. Companies need those smaller, weird and creative experiences to help them keep afloat between their massive scope 50 hour long cinematic experience or their massive multi-player GaaS slop. Right now indie games and constant remakes are filling that void, sort of, but not at the same level as back in the 2000's.
According to this tone deaf Liberal, Mass hiring and mass layoff are done by tech business by design.
Basically attract shareholders by advertising their new projects and start hiring lots of people to make it look like you are growing.
Then when the expense starts to catch up, start cashing out with Mass Layoffs
Well tech is overstating it. It's a Silicon Valley scammer thing.
Wouldn't be surprised if SF companies were pulling the same shit though.
There's too many slimy people in the tech world. It's really a nasty industry. Lots of creeps. Money makes people do really nasty stuff guys. Just make good stuff and be honest. It's hard but it lasts longer and even if it doesn't work out you can at least build relationships. I'd hire an honest person over a nasty cut throat any day, even if the cut throat earned more. You just never know when they're going to cut your throat instead of someone else's.
>Silicon Valley
didn't they go bunk last year
Didn't this guy basically ruin his reputation by making a video shitting on Karl Jobst, and then when Jobst responded, he immediately cucked? Like, hard cucked.
ESG was blatantly and artificially distorting the labor market by boosting the desirability of diversity/minority hires regardless of their skills because money was literally free. Now that interest rates have gone up and all the DEI games are bombing a natural correction occurs.
>all kind of reasons
>like money, money, money or money
the problem will get even worse.
based, underperformers/diversity hires should get fricked, maybe shit will get more efficient.
Those teams are just pretending to be all sweet and lovey-dovey and happy to work together on everything, tee-hee! It's horseshit. The people who still have their jobs and aren't complaining are the ones who are thrilled the dead weight has been shed, and they're probably not afraid anymore to express to each other how much they hated the dangerhairs.
Bro should have seen the sign on the wall when Musk cut 60% of twitter's workforce, but kept the engineering teams because they did the actual work.
Tech got bloated because of Covid gives out and WFH initiatives. It's now has no choice to normalize because the handouts are gone.
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Iam so tired of seeing this shit being spammed. Everything is not a fricking culture and everything is not a fricking community. These dumbasses need to stop killing braincells
1. Companies overhired during the pandemic
2. The GAAS model turned out to be not as successful as expected for a lot of games.
3. Current gen consoles are just starting to pick up steam saleswise after 4 years because they were launched at a time when only a few ones could afford them because everyone was buying groceries and could not go to work due to the lockdown.
Worth noting they overhire as salary expenses are a pretty easy way to reduce your taxable income. Then they lay them off when times aren't as good with zero repercussions because they only hire low level marketing/hr/ other useless positions and in doing so boost EPS so their stock is still attractive despite the economic downturn.
Dipshit execs thought covid profits would continue to grow forever after lock downs. Also the AAA race to create as much live service games as possible even though that game fad is already dead and was never sustainable even with the top games in it's genre.
Game studios getting molested by Sweet Baby Inc. until they choke to death on woke propaganda. They really thought they could just threaten the video game industry with #metoo to maintain influence over everything. Woke leftist are incapable of creating anything so they just “claim” whatever is the most popular and use it as a platform for their ideology. They can’t launch a new IP of make a single successful character so they just consume everything like a swarm of woke locusts. Games are the only thing that made more money than Marvel and you saw what they did to that cash cow.
They dipped their fingers into Alan Wake 2? Fuuuuugg. I wanted to play that.
AAA gaming is just fricked. Its not that there's one studio working on a game, there's multiple studios contributing to work on just one game, greatly increasing the production costs. And the production costs have generally been increasing over time on the console side to where they're on par with the latest capeshit film if not bigger, so the smaller guys can't ever hope to compete.
Its hard to tell how much input they actually had with Alan Wake 2 besides suggesting "make Saga black". I've looked at the credits and as far as I can tell Sweet Baby didn't seem to have any tangible input into the actual story, that was still mostly Sam Lake as the main creative visionary. The only thing that they're credited with is being "narrative consultants".
In contrast if you look at something like Suicide Squad's fricking feature length credits, there's multiple Sweet Baby members credited as "writers".
I'm not that far in Alan Wake 2 but nothing really stands out in the story to me as "woke", it still feels like a Remedy game. Take that for what it is.
People are generally tired of games that fricking suck.
Normies dodging Suicide Squad and Skull @ Bones in favor of Palworld and Helldivers II should be enough of an indication that no one wants any of what AAA companies are trying to sell.
Most AAA games made these days aren't fun, they're just trash cobbled up by Diversity Committees, analyst and psychologists to get you hooked on the lowest common denominator gameplay.
I dont understand why people defending AAA trash and blaming the barely recession are not willing to acknowledge the actual problem. AAA games fricking SUCK, get over it.
This anon speaks the truth.
Gamers want games that are fun and play friends. Just look at how big Lethal Company became.
AAA studios are trying to make drugs to addict people and create whales.
non br pest
perfect storm
pandemic boom had the industry booming like crazy so suits decided to buy in and swell their workforces that were already bloated with a bunch of redundant idiots that crept in slowly over the past decade but hadn't yet gotten the boot either due to nepotism or being diversity hires or what have you, now that the boom is finally dying down and """""cinematic"""" games are starting to collapse under their own budgets because they can barely even break even anymore the bubble pops and everyone starts getting fired because they realize they actually have to make money to have the numbers go up
>All kinds of reasons
one thing in common: AAA
there's no video games to play, all they do is make a troony pronoun option on the menu screen then call it a day, you have to be a fricking moron trend chasing loser to play video games nowadays
Why nrowse Ganker if you don't play vidya?
why are you here pushing culture war homosexualry as video games
Because it's funny
because the vidya I like isn't old enough for /vr/ yet
Zero interest loans of covid times wearing off
Plus games are just getting very expensive to develop and companies want to reduce overhead at the end of the fiscal year
ESG funds dried up, and it's clear all the woke projects they funded are going to be flops and all the DEI hires they used the money on are blithering idiots wholly incompetent at game developing/writing.
Plus they all hired a bunch of useless employees during the covid boom and are now firing them to boost their EPS.
>We spoke to impacted game developers about how their lives have been upended by the current industry upheaval.
Vapid, meaningless trash. What did they expect them to say besides "I'm fricked, how do you *think* I was impacted by this horseshit?"
If you think you hate journalists, just remember you don't hate them enough.
Shareholder pockets are taking hits because devs can't think of a way to extract even more wealth from consumers than they already do to continue being green every year (which is impossible) so it's time to trim the fat instead.
Woke shit has just accelerated the inevitable via turning gamers off from buying shitty products in the first place
ESG bux got the classic "the goyim know, shut it down" treatment. And no ESG means diversity hires - especially the insane, deranged types like trannies or women - aren't worth keeping around anymore.
*flop flop flop flop flop flop*
GET FIRED GET FIRED GET FIRED GET FIRED GET FIRED GRT FIRED GET FIRED GET FIRED GET FIRED
So called "feminazis" were right about men.
TXYD
No thats the trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
free money hose of 0% interest rates finally ran out. now you actually need to create value to get money since uncle sam is paying 5% risk free. all the wokie jobs were functionally just sinecures for PMC failchildren.
It's a mystery......
I mean these people COULD focus on making a good game perhaps????
And not fricking garbage like soi squad.
They do this and get shit like baby sweet involved and then have the audacity to act shocked when it gets a bad reception
black lesbians with white liberal dyke haircuts, probably.
still think that japan's work culture is bad?
that pic tells me all I need to know about those "developers"
Games are coming in massively overbudget so that even if a game is successful, it still might not recover its budget. Technically this is "go woke go broke" not in the sense that going woke is driving away customers but DEI hiring has resulted in dev teams being massively bloated with dead weight. In the past, a small team of passionate and skilled devs could deliver quality games on a reasonable budget, but corporations have become massively bloated increases budgets above what can be made back even with a successful game.
Needs desperate and starving people for ww3
I give it two or three more years of constant collapse. Lowering life's quality for everyone til golems are desperate enough to enlist so they can get some food.
Will they shutup about the layoffs already, it's not like any of them are gonna vote any different
I’m so bored of you schizos always blaming this on politics. We could be having a fun shitflinging thread about mocking GAAS and AAAA design right now. But no it’s always california, trannies, and whatever three letter diversity acronym you saw on newsmax last week
cry harder, troony
capitalism
wtf i love capitalism now!
me
>Just hit 40 thousand
glorious
2000 poltards and
38000 bots
Liberals have been screaming about bots since 2016. They can't fathom that there's a sizable number of people who are against them, so they dehumanize them, and say they aren't even real.
And I hate the common rebuttal of "just ignore them". No, frick that, we know their shitty mind games well enough to know that's what they want.
>41k now
Look at the last 5-10 years of games. They all suck and flop.
>musk buys twitter
>realizes 80% of "le tech guys" are just freeloading and getting a paycheck to do absolutely nothing
>fires all of them
>publishers do the same with diversity hires once they realize they do fricking nothing but freeload
>GUYS THIS IS AN OUTRAGE THE HIGHEST LAYOFFS IN HISTORY MUH VIDYA JUERB!
For basically a decade these companies existed as adult daycare. You get the right MBA, or meet the right diversity quota, and you just showed up, ate your free breakfast and lunch, shitposted on twitter, and went home. Maybe sent a few emails to be "productive."
I had a friend who worked at Riot Games as a sound designer. Was he the sound designer for a single game? No. He did sound design for League skins. Was he the only person doing that? No. He was part of a team of four. They had four salaried workers making sound effects for League of Legends skins.
>He did sound design for League skins. Was he the only person doing that? No. He was part of a team of four. They had four salaried workers making sound effects for League of Legends skins.
god damn lmao, i think at some point these companies started making so much money that they came up with fake jobs to inflate their "growth" rate and appear more important to investors than they really were and when shit hit the fans and costs got higher they are now with their pants down
racism & homophobia. the attacks against Sweet Baby prove it.
They deserve all the racism and homophobia they get, what good has diversity and pride done for this world? That's the big fricking question that leftists NEVER answer.
ESG dried up, that was a program to get companies to hire women and minorities, the problem was a lot of women were not interested in going into gaming so companies would literally just hire whoever to increase their ESG score, they would also pay them way above what they were worth to try to get the average pay of women at or higher than men at the company so they could get more money from ESG investments. Now that the ESG money is drying up, they need to start cutting a lot of the bloat from the make work jobs that existed just to get that money.
Larry Fink literally said they're just going to rename ESG because it has "negative connotations" and that these "behaviors need to be forced". It's just gonna get repackaged.
Already did that. It's DEI now. It's just gonna be a cat and mouse game of figuring out where the bullshit is flowing, cause it's still definitely flowing.
DEI has been around for a while, that's not the repackaging of it, people are just aware of DEI more now.
the words for moronic/mentally handicapped,disabled people also go through iterations because of the negative connotations that follow as the new derogatory term. Poetic?
I think people are rightfully speculating that they will repackage it and give it a new name for basically the same thing, but for now they are pulling back on it and a lot of these places have no incentive to keep the useless employees around.
>A bad financial bet, a failed game, a deal falling through
Get woke go broke
Who ever thought grabbing magic funny munny from ESG investors was a good idea to begin with? These companies must have already been in the hole.
Layoffs aren't enough, i want these people dead
All of this started right after the current Israel/Palestine war
These studios have been very vocal about their support of Palestine, but turns out the ones that pay the bills are the "evil" guys
Overhiring during Covid to chase trends that fall flat on their face resulting in firings to save money.
But I guess colored hairs and trans people are a excuse as well if the former is too boring to accept, or one's brain is mushed up.
I make dating sims where the player has to educate girls using his wiener and I'm doing very well. I recently broke my record for the number of patrons, by the way. I think if you deliver what the audience really wants, you won't have a problem for now.
Maybe in the future with inflation, wars, etc., things will change, but as far as I'm concerned there's nothing to worry about at the moment, consumers are still willing to pay for games, as long as they're games they want to play.
are your games on steam?
Man I wonder
Male gaze status: defeated
It's the "AAA" bubble bursting. The brain dead corpos are so desperate to uphold "infinite quarterly financial growth" so they can pocket all the cash themselves that they are willing to put band aids on a sinking ship by firing people. The saddest part? When the company does die they'll just take a golden parachute to some island where they can do crack/other drugs and frick underage girls against their will for the rest of their lives.
if only there was a way to stop them
>Economy is collapsing but please continue to pretend its whatever personal political reason, in a few years you won't be able to shitpost anymore so enjoy your time
its market correction. the video game industry is bloated, rotten to the core. From the ashes a new videogame industry will be born. Evolved, but untamed! The weak will be purged, and the strongest will thrive -- free to make games that they see fit, they will make VIDYA GREAT AGAIN!
>pointless thread made at 2pm still alive
jesus christ
Jesus won't save you. He said he "aint going back"
Let me tell you whats even funnier
Even though a bunch of woke moronic liberals got laid off by companies like some sort of used condom for the sake of shareholders getting their checks these same game """devs""" will cling to whatever job they can get when the market improves just to do it again
thats the type of morons we're dealing with.
Gamers
They blew their loads during the pandemic and overhired like crazy, now they realized people are no longer confined at home playing videogames all day long, so they have to cut the excess people off. People who spend more time engaged in office politics than at work are usually the first ones to go.
The market size peaked. The only way it could grow bigger is with more developing countries gaining access to up to date AAA games, but that will take a long time.
>What is causing the mass layoffs in the gaming industry?
Game devs are pozzed with peeminism and marxism