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It’s estimated that 9,000 games industry jobs have been lost this year

It’s estimated that 9,000 games industry jobs have been lost this year | VGC

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- "Scrappiest Studio Award" to the team who shipped a decent game after 70% of their team was laid off. What an inspiration, just look at the adorable bags under their hunted eyes. Go crash and burn somewhere, guys. We'll put out a call for contracts when we need you again
Isn't the video game industry booming? What's up with the layoffs? Is this the work of ChatGPT?
Edit: typo
- Unreasonable expectations: every game must be the next cod or Fortnite otherwise it's a failure
  
  How else are you going to support the salaries of so many useless hangers-on who don't actually contribute to the product!
  
  Also gamers dont help. "This game wasnt exactly what I wanted and had a few minor day 1 bugs they patched within a week... utter trash"
- The games industry is shrinking post COVID boom, companies expanded massively to try to capitalise on that and now the money isn't there anymore. The games industry is always bad for layoffs, with staff being seen as an unnecessary expense post project in many cases. Additionally the tech sector is experiencing a unheard of levels of bad year (something like a 700%+ percent increase in layoffs according to at least one research group) which is contributing.

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