Over 6,100 gaming jobs have been cut in 2023 (so far)
Over 6,100 gaming jobs have been cut in 2023 (so far)
At least 106 game developers had layoffs in 2023 with over 6,100 job cuts across the industry according to videogamelayoffs.com.
It’s a bunch of bean counters seeing trends in the markets, seeing others cutting jobs and following suit.
Bull, bear markets, trends, the whole thing is fucked.
It’s spoken about like it’s some mythical, mysterious thing and the government can try to rein it in with their levers if they must as a last resort, because we mustn’t interfere with the markets unless the outlook is bleak.
Give me a fucking break. Is anyone buying this anymore?
The old rich fucks and their old rich fuck friends and their old rich fuck companies, investment firms, hedge funds, whatever else their wrinkly old hands can get on they will move in their directions as they choose.
They don’t lose at this game and they’re pulling away at an outrageous rate, they’re killing us and the planet while they’re at it. They don’t even have to. They don’t even fucking have to. The people who have the shortest time left here are trying to suck the most out of it before they leave and leave way less of it for the rest of us.
I don’t know when others will start getting mad, but it’ll probably be too late.
I wonder how that compares to non gaming tech jobs.
Tech is just as bad if not worse. We've had multiple rounds of layoffs. First few were honestly trimming the fat, but last one we lost some really good people.
Then on the flip side, there are places like my company that are actively hiring. Unfortunately, there's a lot of fat to sift through before we find the qualified candidates.
How many were added though?
This is semi good news. While obviously it ain’t great that people lost their jobs, there’s a good change a few of them will be like “now that I have a few months of pay, how bout I try creating that cool idea I had a while ago?”