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10 Days Into 2024 And 2300+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced (kotaku.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/games
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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/10945203

Mostly from Unity: 1800 through the end of March.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If they have more than 100 people, they do this. There may be exceptions outside of North America (I only know 2 people who work in games outside of there), but if you want the worst offenders I have personal experience with, or know someone who does; I am including publishers here because any company owned by one of them has the same issues:

  • EA
  • Activision/Blizzard
  • Capcom
  • Tencent
  • Sony
  • Take 2
  • Unity
  • Ubisoft (I only have knowledge of the Montreal studio)
  • Keywords
  • Microsoft (easily the worst offender. They bend laws in Canada where you have to hire people full time, with full benefits, you have work for you for 5 years. So they only 'hire' say, QA by using a third party, so they're hiring the 'service' from the 3rd party. When you hit five years, they won't hire you again until you wait six months and change to a different 3rd party).

If you ever hear about a company you like working with one of these guys, it's safe to assume anything they make is about to nosedive after they get bought out, if they even make it. The majority of people I know who left the industry did so after an acquisition because they were all laid off, and then left the industry.

It's so bad I know six different people who went back to making movies in the damn effects industry after working in games. I asked one the difference and she said "I make double."

EDIT: I can't find the article anymore, but about 7-8 years ago one was flying around studios emails/slacks showing that the average person in the games industry lasts 3 years. Looking at the people I've worked with that seems about right.