▲ 420 ▼ Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia (kotaku.com) submitted 4 weeks ago by mereo@piefed.ca to c/games@lemmy.world 112 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Nickelalloy@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago (2 children) Imagine of lots of game developers that gets fired now goes out and start working on indie-games. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] knuk@piefed.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) Going indie from scratch means going no income for years for a project that may never succeed, not everyone can afford the risk. Existing indie studio have very limited hiring capacity compared to the amount of people getting laid off from big companies. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) AFAIK Schedule 1 is developed by a single dev still in college. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago That is insane. Makes me wanna go play it now. permalink fedilink source parent [–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) Funded by who? EA has tens of thousands of 100k/year employees permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) What else are they going to do? Flip burgers for minimum wage? Depends on how much they personall liked developing games relative to making big money I guess.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago Game devs make shit money so they were all in it for the games, but realistically most won't have savings to work for free for the next few years to put out an indie game. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] knuk@piefed.ca 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) Going indie from scratch means going no income for years for a project that may never succeed, not everyone can afford the risk. Existing indie studio have very limited hiring capacity compared to the amount of people getting laid off from big companies. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) AFAIK Schedule 1 is developed by a single dev still in college. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago That is insane. Makes me wanna go play it now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) AFAIK Schedule 1 is developed by a single dev still in college. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago That is insane. Makes me wanna go play it now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago That is insane. Makes me wanna go play it now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] absquatulate@lemmy.world 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) Funded by who? EA has tens of thousands of 100k/year employees permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) What else are they going to do? Flip burgers for minimum wage? Depends on how much they personall liked developing games relative to making big money I guess.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago Game devs make shit money so they were all in it for the games, but realistically most won't have savings to work for free for the next few years to put out an indie game. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GardenGeek@europe.pub 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 child) What else are they going to do? Flip burgers for minimum wage? Depends on how much they personall liked developing games relative to making big money I guess.... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago Game devs make shit money so they were all in it for the games, but realistically most won't have savings to work for free for the next few years to put out an indie game. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago Game devs make shit money so they were all in it for the games, but realistically most won't have savings to work for free for the next few years to put out an indie game. permalink fedilink source parent