Larian Studiosin pomon mukaan julkaisijoiden ahneus tuhoaa pelialan

Vuosi 2023 oli pelialalla irtisanomisten vuosi, ja vuosi 2024 on toistaiseksi ollut samanlainen. Larian Studios on sen sijaan palkkaamassa lisää väkeä, ja studion pomo Swen Vinckella on näkemys pelialan suunnasta.

Game Developers Conferencen eli GDC:n humusta raportoi Eurogamer. Vincken mukaan julkaisijoiden ahneus on johtanut nykyiseen irtisanomisintoon.

"The speeches here have been so good and basically stole all my thunder, of the things I wanted to talk about, about stopping the war and stopping the greed which has been fucking this thing up for so long. I've been fighting with publishers my entire life, and I keep on seeing the same, same, same mistakes over and over and over, and it's always the quarterly profits. The only thing that matters is the numbers. And then you fire everybody and then next year you're going to say 'shit, I'm out of developers', and you're going to start hiring people again, and then you do acquisitions, and then you put them in the same loop again, and it's just been broken, and broken and broken. You don't have to. You can just make reserves. Slow down a little bit, slow down on the greed, be resilient. Take care of the people. Don't lose the institutional knowledge that's been built up in all of those people, that you lose every single time, so that you have to go through the same cycle over, and over, and over, right? Because it really pisses me off."