It’s not easy to be a game developer in today’s market, with hundreds to thousands of workers recently being laid off from companies like Microsoft, Riot Games, and more. What’s always been a more present concern is the vitriol that companies and individual developers receive from gamers online, however. A recent poll from Axios seems to confirm how big of a problem developers think this is.
According to the State of the Game Industry survey that was reported on by Axios, more than 75 percent of the game creators polled said that harassment and toxic behavior were a “serious” or “very serious” problem. With the poll getting data from 2,300 game developers, that means that at least 1,725 of those people said they believe that this behavior from players is a big problem.