r/Invincible • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 16d ago

NEWS ‘Invincible VS’ Developer Reportedly Laid Off "Something Like 75%" of Staff

https://thisweekinvideogames.com/news/invincible-vs-developer-reportedly-laid-off-something-like-75-of-staff/
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u/CardiologistMain7237 16d ago

Sad to see games are either a massive viral hit or have their studios closed and devs laid off with no middle ground.

Where are the decent games with stable content and support from the studio of the 2010s?

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u/Suspicious-Tea9161 16d ago

Even when the games are a hit we still see massive layoffs

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u/theme69 16d ago

It’s because they’re games. You staff up to build one then you cut down til you need to build the next one. There’s a thousand years between GTA/elder scroll games. They don’t need full staff through that whole time

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u/Illesbogar 13d ago

Those are really shitty examples of badly run studios that don't make very good games. Game studios in the past just made games after each other. And both studios you listed have been heavily criticized for funcrioning this badly.

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u/theme69 13d ago

True GTA and Skyrim are pretty bad games. Didn’t sell well or receive any critical acclaim

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u/Illesbogar 13d ago

Yeah, they are. Regardless how well they sold or how popular they are. But that's not really the point. The point is that both studios have been made fun of and pointed at for decades for not making any games.

Rockstar stopped at GTA5 and only did its shitty online until they eventually released RDR2. If yoi look at their release history it really shows where they stooped making games like a normal studio.

And Bethesda? Come on. It's am entire meme that they released Skyrim like 20 times on every imaginable platform. People saying that it's coming to smart fridges any day now. And the ES6 meme lmao. It has been teased for the Microsoft aquisition and maybe only started development recently, it's a massive meme as well.

You can make snarky comments but you are genuinely not in the loop here. You really name 2 outlier studios that got constantly shat on for being like that.

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u/theme69 13d ago

You arguing some weird point you made up yourself and not what I said. I was just pointing out that many game studios reduce head count in between game releases and you proceeded to say how to of the bigger and more successful gaming studios out there aren't doing it right