thank you for adding the absolute figure to the headline
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It feels like every game studio is laying off right now?
Right? Also I don't understand why people even try to make games anymore if the companies are just going to fire you. Seems like the entire industry would just quit making products.
Its because money men are involved. They're not places for artisans, game studios are more like setting up a heist team to sell as many copies and produce the minimum viable product with maximum razzle dazzle to empty the marks wallet as fast as possible.
It helps that idealistic enthusiastic young people keep wanting to make games for these ghouls.
disposable income getting eaten up by gas prices, electric prices, rent increases, and for some of us, medical bills = i'm not buying that $70 game i would have bought a few years ago. i know i'm not the only one, and game publishers know it too. so if they want to stay in existence, they have to cut costs, which at some point is going to include payroll