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The games industry sucks (www.youtube.com)
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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.

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[โ€“] steakmeout@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's really not at all what happened. Gaming development goes back to the 70s and gamerbro culture has almost nothing to do with history of game dev, that's a more recent thing that happened with DOTA and the like.

[โ€“] DagothUr@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Blizzard made awesome games and was led by someone who wanted to make awesome games. Eventually they gave upper management to someone who doesnt play games and now we have empty sheels