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.
Atari was founded by engineers, and went on to tell its game developers they were interchangeable code monkeys. So the six guys who made half of Atari’s profits founded Activision, and after fighting in court to make third-party publishing legal, went on to mistreat their developers the same way. So a bunch of guys left Activision to found Accolade, which went on to mistreat its developers, who founded Acclaim, and-- look. If you think any behind-the-scenes problems started recently, you are very mistaken.
There is a landfill full of 4 KB cartridges, which should have been a monument to why crunch is bad. It was buried and forgotten two years before the NES existed.