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Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 months ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower salaries.

So, what's holding back gamedevs from banding together to either unionize or start their own companies with better conditions that the purely money-driven studios? Why aren't they trying to be better? Nobody willing to invest in them? Does starting a company together mean they will now be the bosses who have to answer to the investors, ensure returns, and fire employees? Is the world just an entire shit-cake?

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[–] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

This is kinda off the subject but do you live this life? Would you like to code something for no money that would help people?

[–] millie@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I drive a cab and get paid very little to basically drive around and help people. Like, the job is to drive people from point A to point B, but I try to do more than that, and help people who need it along the way. I carry a lot of stuff around that I'm not really paid for and I try to go the extra mile for people.

If the projects I'm working on pan out and I manage to get to a place where I have more resources, I plan to use that as a way of making other small steps. Setting up a coop instead of chasing money, releasing a game license that allows independent producers to do their own thing. Things like that. Literally just leaving the door open for people instead of slamming it shut.

I don't really have any intent to code software outside of games, but I'd like to empower others to be able to make the things they want to make and not just feed some big parasitic company with it.

[–] HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

That is great! Thanks for all you do for others.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

Would you like to code something for no money that would help people?

That's open-source software in a nutshell.