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There's still far more people working in games than got laid off. It's a really bad time, much as it is in the rest of the tech landscape (with largely the same fundamental root cause) but the industry itself is going nowhere.

The games industry has always lost its best talent because it doesn’t pay well enough. It’s a shame, because it’s a fun creative industry to be a part of (well, it was 20 years ago when I left)!

That is exactly what people should do so that studios need to take salaries and workplace conditions seriously. If making games is not a profitable thing when it's a real job like any other then it should change or die, we shouldn't be burning people out for the sake of "fun".

On some sense yes... but aren't there still more people working in it than pre-Covid (taking into account population growth) ?

I think we will end up with better UX elsewhere.