cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/19627558
The entire team from publisher Humble Games has reportedly been laid off, according to now former employees posts on Twitter and LinkedIn. 36 developers are reportedly impacted by the cuts.
difficult economic times
code for the parent company investors were not able to scrape their cut off the top without cutting pay role. companies like that have one single product - not games or software or widgets - but the quarterly profit cell within accounting’s excel spreadsheet
they are owned by J2 Global. Check out their holdings on Wikipedia. it’s a random hodge podge of tech companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J2_Global
Correct - this was always going to be the case the moment IGN bought humble bundle. Any delay in getting to this point was a conscious decision about how fast to boil the frog - but IGN didn’t buy Humble Bundle because they believed in the mission of helping charities and indie game developers, they bought it because they believed they could make more money than they spent on it.
“We have looked at these difficult economic times and decided to make them more difficult for our employees by firing them all.” Nice. Always a great move. Also, I don’t see how they can say with a straight face that none of their ongoing projects or releases are going to be impacted by laying off the entire team. Even if they are just a publisher firing everyone and “restructuring” the company is going to have some kind of impact.
why not just say “humble bundle has decided to leave the indie game development market and refocus on selling game as a core” stating that they laid off the entire game development team but are still planning on staying in the market is very weird to me
One thing makes people rage more than the other.
“Somebody bought that thing you love and destroyed it.”
I guess its the right moment to redeem all keys and download all DRM free games.
We are going to see a new case of “you don’t own digital purchases” articles soon
