Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian's Publishing Director Calls Games Industry Layoffs an 'Avoidable F*ck Up'nanoUFO@sh.itjust.worksmod to Games@sh.itjust.works – 354 points – 6 months agoign.com33Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentI swear this comment was a trolling attempt or one of the bloodsucking stockholder asshats that think linear growth is a bad thing.Well luckily every game studio only ever makes successful games and Larian will never make a flop. Right? Just like other great studios like CPDR. Or Blizzard.... Oh... I swear people are just idiots or have zero memory.Except the companies aren't doing layoffs because of a flop or a bad release. They're doing them explicitly because shareholder expectations of profit growth were not met.
I swear this comment was a trolling attempt or one of the bloodsucking stockholder asshats that think linear growth is a bad thing.Well luckily every game studio only ever makes successful games and Larian will never make a flop. Right? Just like other great studios like CPDR. Or Blizzard.... Oh... I swear people are just idiots or have zero memory.Except the companies aren't doing layoffs because of a flop or a bad release. They're doing them explicitly because shareholder expectations of profit growth were not met.
Well luckily every game studio only ever makes successful games and Larian will never make a flop. Right? Just like other great studios like CPDR. Or Blizzard.... Oh... I swear people are just idiots or have zero memory.Except the companies aren't doing layoffs because of a flop or a bad release. They're doing them explicitly because shareholder expectations of profit growth were not met.
Except the companies aren't doing layoffs because of a flop or a bad release. They're doing them explicitly because shareholder expectations of profit growth were not met.
I swear this comment was a trolling attempt or one of the bloodsucking stockholder asshats that think linear growth is a bad thing.
Well luckily every game studio only ever makes successful games and Larian will never make a flop. Right?
Just like other great studios like CPDR. Or Blizzard.... Oh...
I swear people are just idiots or have zero memory.
Except the companies aren't doing layoffs because of a flop or a bad release.
They're doing them explicitly because shareholder expectations of profit growth were not met.