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Double Fine founder Tim Schafer says he no longer “understands the economics” of game development following Xbox’s mass layoffs and industry-wide studio closures. https://bit.ly/4AsdPwu

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You must produce year over year shareholder profit, while also showing that you are downsizing. You must only make clones of things that are already popular.

The man has helmed a studio for longer than most people have even been in the industry. I don't think your non-sequitur is a burn that you think it is.

Made a game about a walking lighthouse and still manages to keep his studio open Meanwhile larger, more successful games, making lots of money, are coming out and the entire studio is getting closed down That's the part that doesn't make sense

What are you talking about? The only reason DF isn't closed is because Asha Sharma wanted a PR win. Double Fine is in San Francisco, one of the most expensive cities in the world, and makes loss leaders. Phil Spencer was taking the profits from successful games to keep DF afloat