• Nickelalloy@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Imagine of lots of game developers that gets fired now goes out and start working on indie-games.

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      5 hours ago

      Going indie from scratch means going no income for years for a project that may never succeed, not everyone can afford the risk. Existing indie studio have very limited hiring capacity compared to the amount of people getting laid off from big companies.

      • GardenGeek@europe.pub
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        9 hours ago

        What else are they going to do? Flip burgers for minimum wage? Depends on how much they personall liked developing games relative to making big money I guess…