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[–] 45 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I wonder if after the midterms the incident rate of factory and warehouse fires will rise?

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Surprised game devs aren't going all office space at this point.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Capitalism disassociates value from the labour that creates it and we.all just keep playing along.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Capitalism is messed up - ftfy

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    Yeah... game development layoffs are highly visible to us because game development is a high visibility, closely watched industry to obsessive nerds, but this is happening all the time in all kinds of industries.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 months ago

    Capitalism is truly messed up... let's get rid of it.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

    I wish EA didn't buy so many studios...

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    They're publically traded - they now only exist to generate profit, and that's the only metric that matters to them. It's the same in any industry, unfortunately.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Not paying the CEO a 38 million dollar bonus and instead keeping the devs on board to create future products for way less than 38 million dollars is more profitable.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    This will/has become the norm. Finish a project, lay off 60% of the team, skeleton crew keeps crunching fixes, pay the suits the profit and wages saved.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    And it would stop immediately if those workers had solidarity and refused to work on the project without the full team.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Maybe. Or maybe companies like EA would implode under their own dysfunction and leave a multi-billion dollar hole in the industry for China to fill.

    A lot of American companies do seem willing to commit suicide before they pay their workers equitably

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  • [+] 35 points 3 months ago (7 children)
  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    And yet, people bought it. I may sound like an old fart, but Battlefield hasn't been good since BF2/2142. BF3 was a bait and switch where they said it was a return to PC focused gaming and not just a console port (was a console port), and they've been doing it ever since.

    Even if you disagree with me and enjoyed the midlife BF, you have to admit the last few have been dumpsters. EA is a dumpster company, we all know this. Why ever give them the benifit of the doubt?

    The reason is people are stupid (on average) and the concept of an informed consumer base (or electorate) is a fallacy. For every 1 person who says fuck EA there are 3 people that don't care and 6 that aren't paying enough attention for an opinion on the subject to even cross their mind. Advertising is the only thing that matters in this reality and they know it.

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  • [+] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)
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    I mean, this is fair.

    I don't like EA. I'm highly skeptical of any of their products from experience, and on principle.

    But not gonna lie, if there was a Mass Effect game beta that I personally played and liked, I'd buy it.


    But to the point of the poster above you, you aren't the average consumer here. You seem well informed, you played the game for 6 months; EA just pulled the rug out from under you.

    But there are a ton of people who just brainlessly buy releases because their friends did it; TBH I did this as a teenager.

    Or they buy because some influencer in their feed hyped it, not because they actually tried it. I think this is very common these days.

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  • The big studios keep giving me reasons to never ever buy one of their games and not even pirate them.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    All you can really do is not buy their shit, or if you must, buy it second-hand so EA, Nintendo, or whoever don't profit directly.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    CEO that did fuck all gets a shit ton of money as a reward for doing fuck all and those that actually worked on the game with overtime and underpaid got the middle finger, makes perfect sense.

    People need to stop working for these shitty "AAA" companies even if it's to have it on their resume and idiots need to stop buying these games just so they can say they played every game in the series.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe one day programmers, artists, ... will understand that the best way is cooperative, not having a CEO.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    A great deal of the industry is powered by debt financing. And the CEO typically holds the job by gatekeeping access to that borrowed money.

    Labor solidarity is predicated on being able to participate in the market. It isn't as if people don't try to Unionize. But if your office or your business or your entire industry can be casually strangled to death by the financial sector when a plurality demand a raise, there's quickly nothing left to unionize.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Make your own games Devs, only way to brake your chains

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    How are devs supposed to live while making an indie game?

    Also the added issue of not being able to market indie games effectively given the ocean of AI trash and asset flipping.

    Also, using France as an example, gaming industry job offers declining by 71% since 2022. https://emploi.afjv.com/observatoire/metiers.php

    It’s a hard world out there.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    sounds like quitter talk to me. you can work and make your own game on the side.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Why do these guys look more and more like movie villains? What's next? One will suddenly have a mustache that he will twirl? One will have an evil laugh? One will change his name to be Dr. John Evil?

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I think the mustache twirl ceo of the year is Ammon McNeff of bricks and mini figs, no doubt some gaming CEO will adopt the look at some point, but few of the big ones really adopt more than a milquetoast fit so as to not fully give themselves away.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    I don't even know what I would do with that much money.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    I'd buy a house, set up a retirement fund and pay a bunch of politicians to support green energy.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Better keep for yourself, genuinely. 28 million for green lobbying is a drop in the ocean against Big Oil lobbying.

    They get 730 billion USD worldwide in government subsidies ONLY. Nevermind them also, like, having awesome profit margins.

    I am all for climate action, but not throwing away 28m into the abyss.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    This is why we can't have nice things and then somehow you are a toxic left extremist when you want billionaire shareholders to be uninstalled.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    Today I found out people still buy these stupid games. Wtf?!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Can't let that santorum trickle down.

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  • Battlefield 6 is so bad, I didn't even know it was released. And I've played all the other 5+

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    I can never not think of that dude as anything but Android Wilson.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    seems gaming is fcked, especially people graduating from college trying to get in as a designer/dev too.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Excited for Battlefield 7

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Andrew Wilson. Approximate net worth $1 billion.

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