constant layoffs is why i don't apply at triple ayy studios. Why go through all that hassle for nothing? Way better to sit tight and make your own game/company. Why the fuck would I want to join Blizzard when their seniors and team leaders keep leaving? Why would I want to join Bungie if even Michael Salvatori can get laid…
Really good article on the Microsoft and Riot layoffs. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/riot-and-microsoft-layoffs-the-same-but-different-this-week-in-business Particularly this bit about Game developer culture, "Developers too often are willing to accept worse pay or working conditions for the good of the project or the…
Is it that hard to start your own studios? even if online? and try to make games outside these "main stream/control" sources of "employment", even if you have to start small and work your way up, we all do very difficult artworks, how hard or long could it be for simple things with the talent that is already around here…
There should be, but the trouble is when you consider the rest of the things that people with money own. Like, who do the police really turn up for? Do they give a crap if you get robbed? Not really. Some rich guy gets burgled? Important shit. Without a critical mass of people dead set on an actual revolution, trying to do…
With these mass layoffs going on it just pushes the non-experienced even further down the foodchain. Studios looking to replace the low end of the pipeline with AI makes it worse. Then to top it off a huge portion, maybe even most, of the available 3D artist positions are only for seniors and leads. So basically if your a…
I think another part of the problem here is that there are simply too few jobs available which makes the impact of layoffs worse. Environment artist for example is probably the most numerous type of modeling job there is and yet there's only a few dozen jobs posted nationwide at any given point. Thats pretty rough to have…
Its really shameful, considering many of those laidoff were seen as the industry's best and their portfolios are often seen as the industry standard. But it didn't make a rats ass of a difference when the company finished with them, they peed all over their top tier work. I mean the piss will probably help grow a plant…