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Same title as the video. Game dev writer Alanah Pierce offers her POV on the recent layoffs from Epic Games.

This is one of the few industries that consistently and continuously posts record profits while also firing everyone who put in the work to make the success possible.

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    934·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think you need that much insight to see that the whole institution is fucked.

    • Rampant “frat bro” culture
    • Frequent cases of sexual harrassment, and assault
    • Cases of suicide
    • Cases of burnout
    • Layoffs like clockwork
    • Often deliver rubbish products
    • Frequently employs consumer-hostile and manipulative tactics

    What is even the point, really? Maybe I’m an outlier but I don’t feel like the AAA gaming industry provides enough good to warrant all the crap they put their workers through, and the way the sentient wallets customers are treated.

    • money_loo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      381·
      1 year ago

      The point is to make as much money as possible while paying the workers as little as is possible. Same as it ever was.

      They could always pay us more, but we’re just supposed to be happy they aren’t sending the Pinkertons to shoot our women and children anymore, I guess?