“They are human beings whose livelihoods have been taken from them, often in spite of stellar, critically and financially successful work.”
The 2026 GDC report says a quarter of developers got laid off in the past two years, and about a third in the US alone. The industry’s answer to that is a pay-what-you-want bundle raising twenty grand for a union hardship fund. Necrosoft and UVW-CWA are passing the hat because the studios that fired these people have no intention of paying severance that lasts. Buy the bundle, but the fix is the second half of their pitch: unionization.