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I am so happy for them and proud of them. This is the correct response to unnecessary layoffs or any other worker abuse. I hope more people in the industry will follow their example!
While you fought for workers rights, I studied the blade.
While you were attending strikes against America's true citizens, I mastered the block chain.
While you wrote to your government, I cultivated inner wealth
Now that the world is on fire and we're at fault for it, you have the audacity to come to me for a living wage?
TIL CDPR is a multi-billion dollar company
Kind of? Idk it's not the most accurate meme for the situation, and possibly a little mean spirited.![](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/a559532e-efae-4889-a850-c9f30282b355.png)
EPIC is laying off 900 people so Tim Sweeney can follow his stupid dream of a Meataverse. He even said this in his "apology letter" where he writes, that he spends too much on metaverse, so he has to lay off people, but then he ends with the promise to continue to overspend on the same thing going forward.
He lays off 900 people, 1/3 of them even core people making his game(s).
It is stupid decisions like this that make the layoffs "necessary", not anything actually related to the development of games, when it comes to these big developers/publishers.
Don't let them fool you that this could not have been prevented.
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/layoffs-at-epic
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He is totally fine with crunch because he on purpose understaffed his core development teams, he is happy for an upcoming community event while having laid off all the staff for that and will continue to make the same mistake again, while laying off 900 people at a time where getting a new job is hard and where many of them rely on finding a new job or losing their working visas.
Fuck him! Do not defend him!