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EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN (www.ign.com)
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Always fun to develop a record-selling game. You lose your job as a thanks! ๐Ÿคฎ

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[โ€“] 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I wish we could band together and create a company not with the motive of profit for shareholders, but with the motive of wages for employees.

What if the goal was to hire and pay as many people as much as possible, all while creating something really neat.

How do we start this?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago

    Yeh I'm aware of employee owned and co-cooperatively owned companies, but in my experience those are often used as marketing buzzwords.

    I think video game development could actually be a space where this could work, but with the saturation of indie and low effort games, a golden opportunity may have already passed.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Like some else already said co-ops and employee owned businesses. But they all require capital to start, maybe a bank could give you a business loan.

    Maybe a government program that doesn't have a profit motive like the post office?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yeah I think a government sponsored program could actually draw a lot of votes, I know Ms. Harris briefly touched on this with her 20k for small business start ups, but its kind of off mark from what I was proposing.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Step 1: Wake up

    Step 2: Realize that people have never been okay with the idea of paying more, they only like to talk about making more (somehow, magically). I feel like rising prices are actually the only thing that can bring down Trump and MAGA, that's how much people hate it

    How exactly and why do you expect people to simply pay more for games so that few people could make more money, likely in a different country? I just don't see market working like that.

    Besides, how would you even start this without investors? Creating a product takes a long time, and you want to pay high wages while the company makes nothing?

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