Gotta love seeing the people who simply did what they were told being punished for their bosses’ mistakes
Rocksteady Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Poor Sales
Submitted 1 week ago by hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works to games@lemmy.world
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JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
caut_R@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Big publishers might as well tell studios to end themselves when they‘re handing out these kinda projects, set up for failure IMO
randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
In the modern game industry, you get hit with layoffs even if you do well so it doesn’t really matter what the quality of your product is in the end… You still get laid off.
Exusia@lemmy.world 1 week ago
indulged in. When a company does not pay off the upper tier, they are indulging in layoffs.
“Hit with” implies an unavoidable, tragic, and forced event. They knew this would happen months ago when KTJL face planted. Videogame companies complain about the “cost of making games” but they’re the fucks what spent the money. Maybe spend less on your marketing and budget, and when a game doesn’t sell well it isn’t a cataclysmic event that sinks the whole company.
But really, if game companies weren’t constantly at risk to have implosions from bad decisions, the board wouldn’t get their “please don’t leave us” money. So really this always comes back to - fuck the management, and the board. Videogames are treated as products so here we are.
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
You see this coming from an mile away.
day_trippin_@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
At this point who isn’t laying off employees?
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Headlines might as well just be “Ubisoft Reportedly Hit with Layoffs Due to 🤷”
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Well Star Wars Outlaws just released so you might be onto something
UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Paying for the suit shortsighteness I guess.
HorreC@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Cant wait to see how many C level people get canned!! wait… none, you mean the directors that forced that BS to be this way wont even get tossed out…
radix@lemmy.world 1 week ago
How dare my meddling not work out, you’re all fired!