2023–2024 video game industry layoffs

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Nothing of value will be lost. Next step is adding all these names into a little list and blacklisting every single one of these individuals from the industry alltogether. Do the same to the people defending them.
 
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Makes sense since I genuinely can't think of any game from this year that weren't ginormous failures or attached to some major controversy. Flops include suicide squad fumbling a decade of good will from the arkham series, hyenas getting aborted after costing over $100 million just to not have to face the embarrassment, Concord meanwhile felt the full force of that embarrassment and decided for a 4th trimester abortion, and apperatetly the new starwars game staring ugly lady isn't doing that hot either. Hell divers 2 seemed like a stand out hit but apperatetly after the psn fiasco its been nose diving and there's stellar blade which did good but is covered in the smelly, sticky residue of its fans embarrassing public pleas to recoom its censored costumes.
I'm sure there was some good indie stuff but for major studios the only successes seem to be the son goku monkey game and dlc for elden ring.
I hope millions get fired until we're left with just the fat passionate nerds who actually know how to make a fun game, until then I'll enjoy the fire and my decades of oldies
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Over on KiA2 there's speculation that there could be another vidya crash, like the one in '83.
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>muh "bethesda bankruptcy" cope around ES6 (bethesda owns the wildly successful DOOM reboot franchise btw)
>muh tencent
>muh HR diversity hires

Nothing short of a civil war is going to rout these fuckers and their enablers.
Since we all know the autists of today are too busy virtue signalling and are too retarded and niggerish to work together on anything that isn't killing online communities or grooming children on discord. "What? you mean like we could harness our autism to just make a fun video game instead? NAH FUCK DAT! TOUCH GRASS! ITS OVER! ABANDON SHIP! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" *Spams the banhammer on a few more random users*

I miss when games used to largely have original mods worth playing instead of weaponized glownigger propaganda shitposts like you'll find on Nexus. The only good thing out of this era was the rise of emulation for every console you can think of.
 
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Diesel Boogaloo said:
Pandemic is the only one of those that actually makes sense.
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That didn't stopped games like Doom and Animal Crossing New Horizon to get released during "pandemic" and print money.

ToroidalBoat said:
Over on KiA2 there's speculation that there could be another vidya crash, like the one in '83.
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Everyone else with common sense predicted the new video games crash.

Dewey Decimal said:
I miss when games used to largely have original mods worth playing
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Now mods communities will ban all "offensive" mods and even uncensored mods "because it's against localizers' vision".
 
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Dewey Decimal said:
Nothing short of a civil war is going to rout these fuckers and their enablers.
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Or maybe much time. The ways of the '00s were changed after a several years of "social media" and "smartphones", so maybe changes in norms could reverse Current Year BS?
 
Vetus said:
Now mods communities will ban all "offensive" mods and even uncensored mods "because it's against localizers' vision".
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I dont mean edgy shitposts by retards and glowniggers. Those were never cool.

ToroidalBoat said:
Or maybe much time. The ways of the '00s were changed after a several years of "social media" and "smartphones", so maybe changes in norms could reverse Current Year BS?
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There's more than one way to wage a civil war. Non violently by creating competition via alternative platforms works well enough. They only "fail" because moderation gets infiltrated by bad actors looking to push their narratives that resistance is futile. A prime example being the death of imageboards due to corrupt moderation.
 
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Vetus said:
"because it's against localizers' vision"
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In other words, they think "localizers' vision" is the SJW-approved way a vidya should be, and going against it is "subverting the revolution" or some commie BS like that.

Dewey Decimal said:
Non violently by creating competition via alternative platforms with a low or nonexistent hosting cost work well enough.
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Oh. Usually when I hear "civil war", I think the violent military kind is meant.
 
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Almost as if all they needed to do was to make games that were actually fun, instead of focusing on how fat they can make their token characters.
ToroidalBoat said:
Over on KiA2 there's speculation that there could be another vidya crash, like the one in '83.
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It could happen with the past few years of massive studio flops, especially with how much of a disaster Concord was. Though I'd imagine the crash would miss the mobile market, thats still a huge money printer from people who don't know better.
 
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Videogames take so long to make that even if the western industry decides to drastically change course today we won't see the effects in another 5 years . Meanwhile shitty woke games that burned DEI investor capital will keep releasing simply because they've been in production for so long and are scheduled to.
 
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I'm sure some of the people who deserved it actually lost their jobs but in the end 90% of the workers getting fired are blameless for the garbage that gets shat out by these AAA companies and will be easily replaced just in time for tne next pozzmaxxed live service turd. It's the companies themselves that have to go under in order for something to change, but that's never gonna happen.
 
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Metamorpho said:
How the hell would the Russia-Ukraine war cause layoffs at video game companies?
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It jacked up oil prices back in 2022-23, caused endless amount of stock market turbulence, and contributed significantly to inflation. Generally not good conditions if you're counting on getting DEI investment money or just investment money period. Not technically the war or another Russian conspiracy, but was actually Western governments with their failed sanctions on Russia and writing hundreds of billions of dollars worth of checks to their proxy war.
Diesel Boogaloo said:
Pandemic is the only one of those that actually makes sense. It turns out if you no longer keep people locked up at home, they no longer have the need to stave off boredom with vidya and prefer simply going outside and touching grass.
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The scamdemic was what put the economy in such a shitty place to begin with. The money spigot was cut off and we got lots and lots of inflation plus got lots of people using "muh pandemic" and "work from home" as an excuse to do nothing.

So you can hardly blame companies deciding to do some mass layoffs in response. It was several years coming.
 
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