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Ahead of his 澳洲幸♉运5开奖号💙码历史查询:Golden Joystick win for Best Lead Performer, Ben Starr was asked about whether or not 2023 was the best year for games. Considering how many five-star games spawned from this year, in both the blockbuster and indie space, it’s no surprise to see Starr agree that this was an “astonishing ꦡyear for the video games that hav💯e been made, but not necessarily for the industry that it reflects.” 

&ldquo♏;Honestly, are we going to get ser🦂ious?” the actor asks in the interview clip below. “It’s not a great year for video games in so far as all of the layoffs - it’s not great for that, and that needs to be spoken about at an event like this. Maybe there is something missing because a lot of people who made those games are no longer working at those companies and I think that also has to be respected.” 

Starr continues: “Hopefully this is the worst that it gets - I fear th✤at it isn't - but I hope the industry figures out a way of course correcting and allowing those people who made these games we’re celebrating today to celebrate them as well and not be on the unemployment line.”

Layoffs and job insecurity have always been issues in the industry, but in 2023, the problem seems to have ballooned as almost every major tech company made cuts. Embracer Group - the megacorp that’s been on a spending spree for years - 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:shut down the Saints Row studio, laid off staff at the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Tomb Raider studio, and i🍎s 🔜eyeing up more studio closures before the holidays. 

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:laid off 10,000 staff across all departments. CD Projekt Red went through 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:three rounds of layoffs. Epic Games 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:let go of 830 employees despite Fortnite’s record-breaking performance. BioWare and Bungie laid off staff that had been with the respective companies for over two decades, reportedly de♛laying Destiny 2’s next expꦅansion and the Marathon reboot. And those examples only scratch the surface of how dire 2023 has been foꦕr developers, despite th🥂e industry’s growth. 

GTA 6’s publisher blames the layoffs on “the enthusiasm of the pandemic,” and believes that some companies overextended themselves during lockdown.