Comment on Callisto Protocol Publisher Confirms 32 Striking Distance Studios Layoffs to 'Realign Priorities'
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months agoThis is a studio wholey owned by a big company (pubg people), so the normal end of contracts after a game releases isn’t expected or normal at all. That’s because companies have to sell another publisher on a game to have a full workforce. That’s why those companies contract developers rather than employ.
This is employed people being laid off, it’s not normal, it is unusual.
End of contract stuff is an issue in the industry, with 15-18% being contractors, but that’s it’s a separate one - if you’re a contractor you’re going to need to find a new job no matter what at the end of the project unless you get lucky enough to snag a permanent role.
Layoffs for salaried employees at the end of a project is a systematic problem in the industry - This is a really (good article)[kotaku.com/why-game-developers-keep-getting-laid-…] from 2014 that’s covers a lot of the issues.
Yeah we’re talking about the same thing, and also about how it affects companies that have to pitch to publishers. This is not that company. It’s a company wholey owned by its publisher.
Defaced@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s pretty known that this game didn’t sell as well as they had hoped. Or at Mars that’s what I thought was the scenario.