When do you think the industry will go back to “normal” and what are some signs that that is going to happen?. I mean, studios stabilizing financially, AAA games franchises not getting canceled anymore, reducing the amount of layouts happening. I just saw the news of EA firing 300+ people and possibly cancelling Titanfall 3. Is there any hope that this is going to get better, or this is already the new normal?

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Things will contract until they reach equilibrium. There have been bad times before (most recently the 2007-2012 Great Financial Crisis era) where everything contracted for a while, and eventually things turned around again. The main issue is that the nothing exists in a vacuum. The greater international economic situation is causing significant uncertainty. The tariff situation is only one factor in this - there's was also significant over-investment in games between 2020-2022, which then led to this correction in the total number of sustainable projects and staff, the tech industry at large having a lot of trouble, the global interest rates rising that made it difficult to borrow money and thus try new things, AI threatening to replace human workers, and a thousand other issues.

You've probably noticed that a lot of these cancellations are "incubation" projects. Incubation projects are the new game ideas that aren't going to ship for several years. They're often still in the extremely early stages of development, still figuring out what the core of the game will be, and nowhere near ready to play or even show. When your house is in order and things are good, you can think about how you want to remodel the kitchen or build out a patio. When your house is on fire, those plans for the kitchen remodel are a lot less important.

Things will continue to get worse until we reach a state where things are sustainable again. I have no idea when that will be and I sincerely sympathize with all of the unfortunate victims of the waves of layoffs. Unfortunately, we as individuals lack the ability to affect the international situation very much. All we can do is keep moving forward. We level up, we work on self-improvement, and we try to do better with the opportunities we currently have. Take care of yourselves, we're all in for a bumpy ride for the next few years.

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