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The games industry sucks (www.youtube.com)
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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.

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[โ€“] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, all that you described? That's what a union does. points at WGA They did it against some of the biggest multimedia companies. The only people who are going to fix the gaming industry are the workers and that takes a union.

[โ€“] dojan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I live in a country where pretty much everyone is unionised. What I described is standard here. It could be over there too.