But again, just the sheer amount of people that are being impacted by this has only grown in recent years. And when you combine that with the fact that a lot of companies, both during the pandemic and even before, have been making big and sometimes very risky investments into a lot of different things - acquisitions of other studios, blockchain technology and NFTs. We're now having a lot of conversations about AI investments as well. A lot of companies are just spending and spending and spending in these very big ways. When you combine all of that together, you end up with this climate where everything just feels very unstable and very unsafe for the people who are actually doing the work of making video games and not making the choices of where the money goes and how it's used.
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/19/1232527477/what-layoffs-in-the-video-game-industry-mean-for-developers-and-the-games-we-lov