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Palia developers lay off a third of staff just weeks after cosy life sim's Steam launch (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

If they can't afford to keep the employees on bench for a month till they start another one then that sounds like terrible management.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This would be my gut reaction as well. I've met some game developers privately and got to know them better and after that a career in game development was out of the question for me. It's not even the fault of the game studios, many of which are being lead by idealistic game devs themselves. It's the publishers who only offer contracts that are so tightly knit, that many game studios go bankrupt after release if they can't get another contract quick enough. The whole industry is rotten and no amount of management will save that on the lowest level of the food chain. It felt too me that only idealistic devs with a high frustration tolerance go into game development and that is being exploited to the extreme.