The Entire Humble Games Team Has Reportedly Been Laid Off - PlayStation Universe
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The entire Humble Games team has reportedly been laid off, Humble Games blames difficult economic times as a reason for the cuts.

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.

  • EpicMuch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    100·
    3 months ago

    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

    • Fixbeat@lemmy.mlEnglish
      371·
      3 months ago

      It’s okay though because they didn’t make this decision lightly.🙄

    • Taokan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      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.