The game industry has seen massive layoffs in the past few years, much of which can be attributed to overzealous growth during the pandemic. Ultimately, these are failures of studio executives that are paid for with the livelihoods of developers, and Arrowhead CEO Shams Jorjani says he doesn't want to make those same mistakes at the Helldivers 2 studio.
"I wish that our industry hadn't shed almost… 30, 40, 50,000 jobs over the past two years," Jorjani tells The Game Business. "A lot of people at the top were making very unsound business decisions, and there's very little accountability on their part. Who among these executives is stepping down? Or slashing their salaries?"
"I'm not saying don't grow, but do it in a way where you don't have to then let go of one third of the company because you made stupid decisions," Jorjani concludes. "I’m not going to hire a hundred people, I would like to do that and help people in the industry, but my first priority is to make sure that people have jobs for many years." Fingers crossed a few more CEOs are willing to take that kind of stand.
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