Subj : Layoffs
To   : Blue White
From : Arelor
Date : Tue May 07 2024 12:03:56

  Re: Layoffs
  By: Blue White to WOLVERINE on Sun May 05 2024 08:22 am

 > I am not in the gaming industry so I may be way off but from what I have
 > heard about it, it is pretty cutthrout and layoffs like that are pretty
 > common.

What I have heard is the game industry is heading into a bad crisis.

Making an AAA game is very expensive. As in brutally expensive. If you release a game and it does not sell well, the studio goes kaput. This has lead to a number of risk reduction tactics, one of which is reusing old engines and code to death.

The problem? You can only reuse and add patches on an old engine for so long. After 20 years the whole thing becomes a bit unmaintanable and also very inefficient on your consumer's gaming gear.

It is reaching a point in which studios are going to get forced into taking massive investments in renewing their codebases. Some studios that tried and didn't manage to sell the games built on renewed engines have gone into a very bad shape, which is discouraging to the others.

So yeah, I am not surprised studios are taking random desperate actions at times.

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