You can't talk about 2023 in games without talking about layoffs

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• GlitterInfection@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure you can. Didn’t you watch the video game awards?

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• a_fine_hound@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yaaaawn. I like how game journalists think they can change the world by talking about the issues and that’s it. I mean those same websites that doom-monger about state of game industry, review and hype the big moneymakers of those corporations.

  We as the customers and players are on the receiving end of their rant (this cascade of articles been going for a couple of months), but guess what capitalism will always win against powerless and meaningless virtue signalling in the form of these opinion pieces. This is bigger than video games or entertainment industry. Unless people go out on the streets and truly revolt against the corporations, NOTHING will change. Equal distribution of wealth and fair rights for workers don’t happen because we talk about it. We need to fight for it.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you really just claim that journalists can not change the world by talking about issues?

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    • a_fine_hound@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do you really think they can? Are you certain that in 5, 10 or at least 15 years things will change for the better? I hope so. But think about climate change. Years of reporting, warning, shouting from the rooftops. Nothing. Nothing changed because we cannot do anything when people in power don’t see the need to change.

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s felt a lot like that this year - that or companies are seizing the opportunity to get bad stuff done while everyone else is, so they don’t stand out.

  This seems to be a common refrain I see since the pandemic. Oh, inflation, they are raising prices so we should too to maintain our profits! Oh, layoffs in the industry, we should too while we can! Oh, live service microtransaction bullshit is making that company money, we should do that too!

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• Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Creative Layoffs? In the same year we saw the practical uses of AI blow up? 🤔

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• dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the layoffs are largely because of the class war going on but also I think the videeo game industry is blatantly trying to do what the movie industry tried to do with AI it is just there isn’t an industry union to fight it. The execs are saying “we can train AI on all the past and present labor of our artists and then just fire the artists!”.

  I think they can particularly get away with this because gamers tend to be the kind of people who will scream “skill issue” or naively parrot a talking point at you if you bring up the political consequences of AI being used to consolidate power in the ruling class. As a result there is almost zero actual solidarity between fans and creators in this industry.

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  • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Or the much simpler explanation that companies over-stretched in an economic boom and now need to cut costs

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    • dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Where are the huge losses being posted by gaming companies? This was a great year for games. It is nonsense.

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