Layoffs continue in the gaming industry. Ubisoft Entertainment is also cutting specialists, and against this backdrop, a quality control manager from Arrowhead Game Studios, known for the co-op shooter Helldivers 2, recently spoke out.
Dave Gallacher sharply criticized the management of Ubisoft Entertainment and other companies. In his opinion, they are "greedy ******," and he doesn't understand why they haven't been sent to prison yet.
Dave believes that managers used questionable business practices:
No matter how you look at it, all elements of our [gaming] industry are controlled by money, and those who have it have behaved like greedy ****** for the last 10+ years, instantly taking advantage of a "golden parachute" as soon as things went bad. I don't understand at all how the management of Ubisoft and Embracer haven't ended up in prison yet for their murky schemes – and thousands of talented developers have to pay for all this, who are now expected to somehow pull money out of thin air to open their own studios.
Dave Gallacher published his comment under a post by id Software producer Andrew Willis. He recently criticized the leaders of large companies and expressed the opinion that after mass layoffs, new studios may emerge that will eventually improve the situation in the gaming industry:
I think at this point, the only way to fix the situation in the video game industry is for developer-owned studios to start emerging in place of closed studios and after mass layoffs. We need to learn from the past, act financially responsibly, and create an environment of sustainable development (with growth being a byproduct of success, not an end in itself). This is the only way forward I see: large publishers and monopolies have already proven themselves to be poor managers and, somehow, even weaker financial managers. If those who create value own that value, good projects will start to emerge.