@LifeGirl it's not in serious trouble at all. It makes more money than film music and TV combined. What it is experiencing (and I hate this term cause so many CEOs use it as an excuse for cost cutting) is 'rightsizing'. All these Dev layoffs are necessary because it became insanely over bloated by all the hiring during the pandemic times. Tens of thousands of Devs were hired because money was cheap and people were buying more than normal. It's a shame, but tens of thousands of 'devs' currently in the industry shouldn't ever have been there in the first place. Studios got too big, publishers paid too much money, budgets went insane, even for smaller games. Now they're realising that they don't need the majority of the developers they hired, not only cause they are expensive and unnecessary, but because lots of them don't even know how to make games properly. The industry is absolutely full of larpers that need excised before more companies go under. Everything needs (and should be) to be a LOT leaner than it is currently.
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Re: Things Sure Aren't Sounding Good for French Publisher Nacon
@LifeGirl it's not in serious trouble at all. It makes more money than film music and TV combined. What it is experiencing (and I hate this term cause so many CEOs use it as an excuse for cost cutting) is 'rightsizing'. All these Dev layoffs are necessary because it became insanely over bloated by all the hiring during the pandemic times. Tens of thousands of Devs were hired because money was cheap and people were buying more than normal. It's a shame, but tens of thousands of 'devs' currently in the industry shouldn't ever have been there in the first place. Studios got too big, publishers paid too much money, budgets went insane, even for smaller games. Now they're realising that they don't need the majority of the developers they hired, not only cause they are expensive and unnecessary, but because lots of them don't even know how to make games properly. The industry is absolutely full of larpers that need excised before more companies go under. Everything needs (and should be) to be a LOT leaner than it is currently.