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The 10,800 game layoffs in 2024 already exceeded all cuts in 2023 — here’s why | The DeanBeat
In just 5.5 months, the industry layoff toll of 10,800 for 2024 exceeds the 10,500 laid off in all of 2023.
But Satvat recently added a new data point at the community’s request: the odds of finding a role in games as a new applicant if you are out of school or have three or fewer years of work experience. “The answer is diverse and structural, including changing business models, evolving user behaviors and preferences, labor economics and microeconomics, disappointing forecasts (and only-recently abandoned rationales for the related shortfalls), competitive and budgetary escalation, console saturation, and an end to the growth-drivers of the last five and ten years. Palworld had under 40 employees (mostly using asset stores and outsourced, low-cost labor), Helldivers came from a team of 100 (and took 7 years), Manor Lords only a few, Lethal Company but a single creator,” Ball said.
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