nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agoBaldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up'www.ign.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1368arrow-down19
arrow-up1359arrow-down1external-linkBaldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up'www.ign.comnanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksM to Games@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareTalaraine@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down2·edit-23 months agoI swear this comment was a trolling attempt or one of the bloodsucking stockholder asshats that think linear growth is a bad thing.
minus-squareDingoBilly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down42·3 months agoWell luckily every game studio only ever makes successful games and Larian will never make a flop. Right? Just like other great studios like CPDR. Or Blizzard… Oh… I swear people are just idiots or have zero memory.
minus-squarekbin_space_program@kbin.runlinkfedilinkarrow-up30arrow-down1·3 months agoExcept the companies aren’t doing layoffs because of a flop or a bad release. They’re doing them explicitly because shareholder expectations of profit growth were not met.
I swear this comment was a trolling attempt or one of the bloodsucking stockholder asshats that think linear growth is a bad thing.
Well luckily every game studio only ever makes successful games and Larian will never make a flop. Right?
Just like other great studios like CPDR. Or Blizzard… Oh…
I swear people are just idiots or have zero memory.
Except the companies aren’t doing layoffs because of a flop or a bad release.
They’re doing them explicitly because shareholder expectations of profit growth were not met.