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.

    • @[email protected]
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      281 year ago

      The solution is not for you to show contempt or lack of empathy to these people, it’s for them and you to demand better treatment from the owners and executives.

      The system is fucked and it is skewed wildly against anyone who is not at the top.

        • Heydo
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          151 year ago

          Boy howdy, you sure are committed to your idiot perspective aren’t you?

            • @echo64
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              31 year ago

              Me hurt from lack of other people caring about bad things happening to me. Me hate people who care about other people having bad things happen to them.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          By your own admission you are punching down or sideways at best. Punch up. You see what you want to see, you aren’t the only person in the world who’s a card carrying union member here nor are you the only person who cares about workers in any non-tech industry here. Class infighting is about the dumbest thing ever.

    • nyoooom
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      51 year ago

      I don’t think you realize that video game developers and other related jobs are pretty badly compensated for the job they’re doing. Those devs are among the most skilled ones and could probably earn 5 or 10x what they’re getting now by going to work at some FAANG or big banks. They’re working here because they love video games and want to create something fun, so it sucks when you just get fired like that.

      Also, it’s not because you’ve had it worse that their situation is okay, it’s fairly easy to always find a worse situation and just dismiss any issue.