The CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 maker Larian Studios, Swen Vincke, has said that corporate greed is the root cause of many of the layoffs we have seen in the last few months.

Accepting the Best Narrative prize at the Game Developer's Choice Awards – as reported by Eurogamer – the exec said that he was frustrated by seeing the same mistakes made time and time again.

"Greed has been fucking this whole thing up for so long, since I started," Vincke said.

"I've been fighting publishers my entire life and I keep on seeing the same, same, same mistakes over, and over and over.

He continued: "It's always the quarterly profits. The only thing that matters are the numbers, and then you fire everybody and then next year you say 'shit I'm out of developers' and then you start hiring people again, and then you do acquisitions, and then you put them in the same loop again, and it's just broken...

"You don't have to. You can make reserves. Just slow down a bit. Slow down on the greed. Be resilient, take care of the people, don't lose the institutional knowledge that's been built up in the people you lose every single time, so you have to go through the same cycle over and over and over. It really pisses me off."