Games Industry Mass Layoffs an Avoidable Fck Up Says Larian Studios Publishing Director
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The developers behind last year's breakout RPG Baldur's Gate 3, Larian Studios, have since used the platform allowed by their success to rail against the many ills currently plaguing the video game industry (where possible). CEO and founder Swen Vincke recently called out publishers' greed as being to blame, saying that "they've been fu**ing this whole thing up for so long." Now, director of publishing, Michael Douse, has given us some similarly spicy quotes to work with.
Speaking to Game File's Stephen Totilo (thanks, IGN), Douse puts things equally bluntly, explaining that "these giant operational failures that we call layoffs…they are an avoidable f*ck up. That's really all they are." He says that these big companies fail to prepare financially for the future and that layoffs come in waves when the market starts to turn because they start to think: "Well, finally. Now we can, too. We've wanted to do it for ages. Everyone else is. So why don't we?' That's really kind of sick. a very, very complex and nuanced decision. But the idea that it's an inevitability that has to happen, it's just not true."
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