Top Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 dev slams mass layoffs across gaming industry Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s Michael Douse has given his take on the layoffs in the gaming scene. The attitude towards the gaming industry is proving to be very timid as we proceed through 2024, with no news of layoffs since the beginning of the year. The publishing director of Larian Studios, the team behind Baldur\u2019s Gate 3, spoke his mind, being very explicit with his opinion. In an interview with Game File publishing director of Larian Studios, Michael Douse has some choice words for the current state of gaming. \u201cNone of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They\u2019re just at risk of pissing off the shareholders. And that\u2019s fine. That\u2019s how they work. The function of a public company is to create growth for its shareholders. It\u2019s not to make a happy climate for the employees.\u201d Michael Douse hit out in protest of mass layoffs: \u201clayoffs are an avoidable f**kup. That\u2019s all they really are. That\u2019s why you see one after the other. Because companies are going: \u2018Well, finally. Now we can, too. We\u2019ve wanted to do it for ages. Everyone else is. So why don\u2019t we?\u2019 That\u2019s really kind of sick.\u201d In 2023, Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 earned the \u201cGame of the Year\u201d award, beating out Marvel\u2019s Spider-Man 2 and The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom. However, it did not earn a nomination in the Best Independent Game category. The cascading effect of layoffs in the games industry isn\u2019t subtle, with job loss figures reaching over 13,000 since January 2023, with EA, Microsoft, Sony, Embracer Group, Sega, Ubisoft, Epic Games, Unity Technologies, and Riot Games being the biggest sources of layoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Top Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 dev slams mass layoffs across gaming industry Larian StudiosBaldur\u2019s Gate 3\u2019s Michael Douse has given his take on the layoffs in the gaming scene. The attitude towards the gaming industry is proving to be very timid as we proceed through 2024, with no news of layoffs since the beginning of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}