LCP@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoSupermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affectedimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up13arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up13arrow-down1imageSupermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affectedLCP@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square13linkfedilinkfile-text
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/supermassive-games-ltd_a-statement-from-supermassive-games-activity-7492908502840127489-AHmJ/
minus-squareMicrow@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoTheir CEO quit end of June without any reason stated. Sounds like he was the first one to get laid off.
minus-squareCIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoMost of these layoffs are VC groups pulling funding from gaming companies to shift to AI investments
minus-squareEcho Dot@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoYeah because they think that AI will make the games in the future. Have you seen AI make games they’re terrible. They objectively work but they’re not good games because AI has no creativity.
minus-squareCIA_chatbot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoI doubt they even care, VCs are there for investment returns, they don’t give a shit about anything else
Their CEO quit end of June without any reason stated. Sounds like he was the first one to get laid off.
Well that’s good.
Most of these layoffs are VC groups pulling funding from gaming companies to shift to AI investments
Yeah because they think that AI will make the games in the future.
Have you seen AI make games they’re terrible. They objectively work but they’re not good games because AI has no creativity.
I doubt they even care, VCs are there for investment returns, they don’t give a shit about anything else