AAA Companies are “Trust-Busting” themselves with layoffs.

I saw this coming with the most recent mass layoffs and overall sentiment of gamers, and it could be happening in other industries as well. These corporations have become so fixated on profits and the stock market that they forgot that the gaming industry is primarily an entertainment industry. If people have an option to play something better (and in this case cheaper) they will.

So we see that happening right now. I think it's a total of 6 "Indie" games in the past 4 weeks that sold a combined total of 8 million copies. Developers are seeing what corporations now lack in their video games: Passion.

The mass layoffs for short term profits are encouraging these talented developers to form smaller teams that simply make good games. And we're all going to play them in substitute of the AAA slop that gets thrown at us with pushy microtransactions and addictive, manipulative strategies we're growing privy to.

I'm happy to see the self-inflicted result of greed and lack of care for consumers.

EDIT: After reading some comments and reflecting on the post, I want to be clear. I'm not advocating for AAA companies to collapse as a whole, nor would I be happy to see that. What I am happy about is that they are being forced to take a step back and analyze their current model as a result of recent successes from much smaller teams.