It’s truly disgusting when companies do layoffs near Christmas. They should do it a month or two after instead.
It also seems strange to me how many layoffs there are. Surely they expected the huge increase in demand during COVID to return to typical levels now that people are going back to the office. The industry is still incredibly profitable, surely having more staff around to make more games is still a profitable strategy…
I think the amount of studios Embracer has bought, they were looking for some kind of big return, like that $2 Billion deal they mentioned, which didn’t go through.
If they had the plan from start to actually run these studios themselves, I don’t think they would have closed so many so close to each other.
It’s truly disgusting when companies do layoffs near Christmas. They should do it a month or two after instead.
It also seems strange to me how many layoffs there are. Surely they expected the huge increase in demand during COVID to return to typical levels now that people are going back to the office. The industry is still incredibly profitable, surely having more staff around to make more games is still a profitable strategy…
I think the amount of studios Embracer has bought, they were looking for some kind of big return, like that $2 Billion deal they mentioned, which didn’t go through.
If they had the plan from start to actually run these studios themselves, I don’t think they would have closed so many so close to each other.