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Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
There's a lot of sense to the idea of slashing development costs - reducing risk to the studio when a project fails being the main benefit from a business perspective. however .. Shareholders are interested in growth, not profitability. Cutting costs by 90% isn't useful if it means that your total revenue falls - even if… -
Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
And how would Microsoft starve Sony of its exclusives? They have no equivalents to compete Sonys exclusives so hurting them is out of the question. The only thing I can think of is Microsoft tries to acquire Sonys exclusives, but fat chance of that happening. Sony will fight them tooth and nail to, for example, not lose… -
Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
I'd replied to @zetheros about the changes to vfx and video game credits by the quebec government which are contributing to layoffs in Quebec. I was hoping this would move the thread away from DEI/culture war related discussions that focus on morality/representation. I'm not sure if that reply was flagged for removal, I… -
Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
To give an example of performative DEI, Consider this widely panned scene from Dragon Age Veilguard contrasted with a much better variant. The original scene, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JkPHdlJc20 The rewrite, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnPWAgZEXUI Going with the original scene, I'm mostly confused if the game… -
Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
I totally understand the changes.. but i think it's condescending for a company president (even ex) to say: deal with it. Because it was the work of the creatives who got the "product" makeing money.. which was used to pay him. And in the end when "all layed off artist" do something different and those companies want to… -
Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
I meant that we could have done without the culture war nonsense since it isn't helping an already dire situation. The charitable focus was a strategy to alleviate the damage by emphasizing corporate philanthropy insulating publishers from the fallout. It also makes representation more impactful than performative as is… -
Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
Maybe they don't need to go very far since they have alternative revenue streams and a very high market cap. Hence I felt that what they want is for sony to not go further and thus improve their stock value. By controlling ip's and keeping them from sony, they can push their valuation higher and cover any deficits through… -
Re: Game Industry Layoffs - WTF?
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…
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