• AdellcomdoisL@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This article coming out on the same day as another wave of layoffs, this time from Bungie, is an excellent view on the state of gaming criticism. Even if it were the best year for the products (there are several titles in the article that are curious), it’s definitely one of the worst years for the people who work on them.

    I hope the current wave of unionizing keeps manifesting and spreads to the gaming industry, because this situation is dire and it’s only getting worse.

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      1 year ago

      Even if it were the best year for the products (there are several titles in the article that are curious), it’s definitely one of the worst years for the people who work on them.

      For sure. As an armchair analyst, it seems to be the result of getting out of the era of cheap credit and VC money. I don’t expect it to get worse, but I do think live services and enormous open world games ran out of money spreading their customers across too many games.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure the worst year is specific to game developers though, the whole world is under economic squeeze, take a look at the layoffs in the tech industry.