Geoff Keighley Finally Acknowledged Game Industry Layoffs, But In The Worst Way

There’s been a lot of displeasure directed at lately, a lot of it warranted. In 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the midst of a slew of brutal layoffs, thꦅe latest in over a year of seemingly nonstop firings, the producer and host of and the man regarded by many to be one of the faces of the game industry had not mentioned any layoffs. Instead, he found it appropriate to about GameScent, an AI powered techꦅnology that lets you smell your video games.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I think it’s gross, for the record.

Naturally, people were very upset, especially developers who have been growing more and more concerned about the security of their jobs and journalists who have been covering those layoffs. The general tone of the responses were along the lines of ‘oh, you really don’t care’. Of course, we shouldn’t be surprised – Keighley didn’t mention the layoffs at the last TGAs either, a fact that is all the more egregious when you realise that there were workers i🍷n the industry picketing outside the event. Also, Keighley spent a lot of time on screen palling around with Hideo Kojima and Gonzo the Muppet. More time, in fact, than all of the award winners combined were given for acceptance speeches.

In fact, a quick search on Twitter will show that Keighley has only ever tweeted a🎶bout layoffs four times. Two of them were over ten years ago. One was in 2023, in which he published a statement from Telltale Games about its layoffs. The last one was this week.

Great! Finally, he’s acknowledged it. However, he did so in the most Geoff Keighley way possible, by bringing it all back to hustle culture. Don’t get me wrong, it looks like he’s finally trying to contribute in some way – he shared the work of Amir Satvat, who built a directory of almost 7,000 job candidates and over 2,000 mentors. He also says he’s signed up to help mentor job seekers. It seems well-intentioned enough, even if he did only write a single vague line about the layoffs themselves, not mentioning any of the companies th꧂at carried out these layoffs or the reason for his prolonged silence.

Here comes the bad part: 14 hours after finally acknowledging the𓂃 layoffs, he announced Summer Game Fest’s official 2024 date. It’s pretty obvious that Keighley would have faced serious backlash from industry professionals if he continued to ignore the dire situation the industry is in while still announcing game shows. With a tweet, he managed to take some of that heat off him. People aren’t so angry anymore. Less people will yell at him because he’s now done the bare minimum of saying that yes, layoffs happened, and here are the products of somebody else’s labour that might help.

Last year, Editor-in-Chief Stacey Henley wrote about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Keighley’s role in the industry and how he has to balance the apolitical nature of The Game Awards with his duty to represent developers. She asked what he would say, and the answer was ‘nothing’. It took worsening conditions and industry pressure for him to say anything at all months later, and I really have to ask – are we going to act like this is enough? Don’t developers deserve better f▨rom the public figures that claim to represent and celebrate them?

I think it’s dire that people are now figuratively patting him on the back and thanking him for ‘using his platform’ for very obviously trying to mitigate the negative responses to this year’s Summer Game Fest. More now than ever, we need more than what The Game Awards an♛d Keighley can offer us.