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Palia developers lay off a third of staff just weeks after cosy life sim's Steam launch
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2024
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Thats pretty typical for studios after a launch. They release the game and scale back on staff till they have another game to cook up. Theres usually not much to do after a game release for a lot of the staff till they have a game in the pipeline again.
Imo it's only recently that it's become 'typical' for this to happen.
Video game developer here. It has been happening since the games industry started. Frequently, early games were made by contractors that were let go at the end of a project.
Many studios have done this for decades. Many developers actually like this as contract work pays differently than salary work and gives different freedoms.
It’s been typical for qa and similar staff for a very long time. This article doesn’t specify what roles were cut so it’s hard to say if this is business as usual or not.