• reddig33@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    I wonder how many of these layoffs would have happened if all the industry buyouts and mergers hadn’t been allowed these past couple of years.

  • TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social
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    18 hours ago

    People love to focus on the layoffs way waaay too much. They get rehired when a new project starts. It’s not like there’s millions of laidoff game devs wandering the streets.

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      17 hours ago

      Ah yes, closed game studios like Bioware, several branches of Ubisoft, Twisted Pixel, and so on are just lining up to rehire for their shuttered game projects and doors.

      There’s been major industry wide restructuring and shuttering and trying to just say we should ignore the numbers because they’ll be rehired is really ignoring what’s been going on the last year or two.