Video Game Industry Layoffs Are Worse Than Ever. How Did We Get Here?
Video Game Industry Layoffs Are Worse Than Ever. How Did We Get Here?
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Video Game Industry Layoffs Are Worse Than Ever. How Did We Get Here?
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You really don't need a full article to say 'late-stage capitalism.'
There's nothing behind this but corrupt behaviour and greed.
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Dig deep enough and I'm sure you'll find wall street at the bottom of this hole. They are the source of all enshitification.
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It's salary consolidation. It's shitty, but these jobs aren't actually being cut, they are just being demoted post-pandemic. This happens to every "skilled labor" industry eventually. All the more reason why tech needs to unionize yesterday.
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It's the normal layoff cycle of new game development amplified by the Covid boom.
Why does the layoff cycle keep happening? Because developers are okay with it. They keep signing those contracts and not joining unions. And that's their choice.
How many unions are there for game dev, and how successful are they in the industry?
My experience trying to join a Union in America makes me critical of this callout.
"It's exclusively the workers fault that their employers are shitheels"
You can acknowledge that workers need to do more to better their own working conditions without placing all the blame on them. The publishers have as much free will as the developers, they choose to be awful as much as developers choose to work for them. And they have a lot more power to influence change.