Same title as the video. Game dev writer Alanah Pierce offers her POV on the recent layoffs from Epic Games.

This is one of the few industries that consistently and continuously posts record profits while also firing everyone who put in the work to make the success possible.

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    2 years ago

    Epic is such a perfect encapsulation of this because FORTNITE IS A LICENSE TO PRINT MONEY. Why are they laying off developers, do they need those funds to hire forklift operators for their pallets of cash? Jfc