Helldivers 2 Boss Discusses Gaming Industry's Mass Layoffs And What Caused Them
Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt has commented on the current state of the video game industry, saying it's "caught in a vicious circle of death and rebirth" that has contributed to the raft of mass layoffs, studio closures, and game cancellations in recent times. "Every so often we lay off thousands of people suddenly, and then nobody understands why, and I think it's just because we converge," he said at GDC 2025 this week, as reported by Eurogamer. "We will always go through the cycles of death and rebirth, but now that cycle is unnecessarily brutal because we don't diversify enough. We need to make more types of games because people are playing more than ever and still we are unable to stay in business. It's ridiculous."Pilestedt went on to say that it might have been possible to avoid the unfortunate current reality of things "if everybody stopped making battle royale" games and instead made other types of titles.Continue Reading at GameSpot
Helldivers 2 creative director Johan Pilestedt has commented on the current state of the video game industry, saying it's "caught in a vicious circle of death and rebirth" that has contributed to the raft of mass layoffs, studio closures, and game cancellations in recent times.
"Every so often we lay off thousands of people suddenly, and then nobody understands why, and I think it's just because we converge," he said at GDC 2025 this week, as reported by Eurogamer. "We will always go through the cycles of death and rebirth, but now that cycle is unnecessarily brutal because we don't diversify enough. We need to make more types of games because people are playing more than ever and still we are unable to stay in business. It's ridiculous."
Pilestedt went on to say that it might have been possible to avoid the unfortunate current reality of things "if everybody stopped making battle royale" games and instead made other types of titles.Continue Reading at GameSpot
