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G2ThaUNiT said:

This is also surprising considering over the past several months, nearly all of Xbox and Bethesda studios have been hiring developers in big amounts, and still are! Quite a few studios have dozens of open positions.

Are these layoffs not tied to development? With how much turn over there's been in the gaming industry, if you get laid off, how many different places are there to go now? We may end up seeing an exodus of people who just don't want to work in the game industry anymore. And I wouldn't blame them.

Yeah, execs don't seem to realise how much "unintentional" damage this could do to the industry. Join a company, get laid off, join another company, get laid off, join another company, get laid off, all in the same industry. At some point, you blame the industry, thousands upon thousands of layoffs every year and it shows no signs of slowing down.

The crazy thing is, we've long been told that there is actually a shortage of talent/developers in the industry.