This makes me celebrate even harder
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And I'm confident they HATED the jab when Pelosi and Harris told them to before the 2020 election.
They would have all lost their jobs anyway. Modern game studios are a single use item.
I haven't really thought about that before. Would game companies hire most of their developers, programmers, and other talent just for individual projects/games?
Almost never. That's why we still remember the name of so many game studios and specific game creators from the 80s and 90s. Putting together a team is an incredibly time consuming, expensive process. It costs far, far more money to hire a new employee than to retain existing employees.
The fact that there are so many fly by night studios who seem to exist entirely to sacrifice themselves for the Greater Good is some super blatant tax evasion shit. Same with "unreleased films". You want me to believe that they spent 100 million dollars creating a movie and simply decided not to release it? Pull the other one.
They're called ash can films. studios license the film rights to a property from the copyright holder, and usually, there's a contractual obligation to produce a film based on that property within a set number of years, or the film rights revert back to the owner. If a studio can't get their shit together within that period of time, they have to make something, so they'll make a half-assed version of the film and give it no more of a release than they're contractually obligated to make to retain the license, then either try to make something good in the time allotted or sit on the rights for another cycle.
Look at the fantastic four for example. there were three separate films that bore that name (not counting the one that actually managed a sequel), all ten years apart. there was the richard donner version in the nineties that was never intended to be released, the two movies in the two thousands, and then fanfourstic in the 2010s.
Look up Dick Tracy films for a few more.
Many, many industries are moving towards independent contractor based work because it allows them to provide considerably less benefits in the long term while still maintaining most of the productivity needed in short bursts.
The only reason why many didn't in the past was that the work was too specialized and all those extremely talented people had negotiation power to just take their talents elsewhere and be gobbled up.
Now the majority of game devs can barely scrape into companies on peanuts and are barely considered worth keeping between projects. The big names for sure get to be actual employees, but the rest are catch and release unless they impress one of those big names. And I'd wager a lot of them are contracted by the same company consistently, but kept as contractors just to cut costs on supporting them between releases.
And most of them forced out more technically capable but less socially manipulative devs to get their mismanaged AAA jobs in the first place.
"Oh no, 100s of people might lose the things they stole!" Good. This is an absolute win. The only bigger win is if the excluded Devs were raking in the cash nobody is spending on Concord.
I'm supposed to have empathy for people who hate me and my way of life, that bullied and appropriated their way into gaming?
Not going to happen.
I remember your response to coalworkers
Where was your empathy then?
Ironically that phrase still applies here
#LearnToCoal
We need cheaper energy.
Oh look a leftist buzzword, shocking.
We like actual empathy. "Live and let live" suffices most of the time in a properly functioning society.
I'd say this is more of an instance of SJW truism #3: "Always projects their sins onto others." [Lack of empathy in this case]
Maybe they should have made a better game.
Is this nutjob saying that people should have bought the game even if they don't like it and don't want to play it so that the devs keep their jobs? Because I can't think of any other way that devs losing their jobs for making a poor game with terrible characters is the fault of the consumers.
Lefties do genuinely believe that you should be mandated to buy their "art" and support them for making it, regardless of your feelings.
Its why the governments of many nations hand out these massive payouts to film, art, and now gaming companies who are producing Leftist garbage.
Labor theory of value. These people are communists.
This. Any time someone makes an argument that "people worked really hard on this" so this thing should be supported and applauded despite the fact that its objectively garbage, that is a commie argument.
I love how they say "jobs" like we are talking about a rural family of 5 barely holding on while the coal mine goes thru layoffs.
Imagine? You’re describing affirmative action and DEI.
Boeing say ''hi''. Or is it the passengers on the crashing plane screaming?
DAMN GAMERS! DEY TERK ER JEEERRRBS!!!!
The developers are communists, not people
These are the empaths^wpeople who, after reading a single word that they didn't like, would comb through your entire social media history to find anything tangentially wrongthink and then launch campaigns to harass your family, friends, and employer to get you cancelled.
And these people are equating that with us not buying a product that not only wasn't catered to us, but actively hostile towards us.
They have no problem millions loosing their livelihoods with their election theft, why should I give a fuck of 100 commies
Unlike your characters, this gets me hard! /s
I still pray for the day the big quake happens and takes California, so much woke shit would be destroyed overnight including Sony's HQ and YouTube's HQ.
Superman never made any mistake worse than stopping Lex Luthor blasting the San Andreas fault apart and sending the remnants of SanFran & LA into Davy Jones' locker.
> Do poorly at their job
> Lose job
THIS IS YOUR FAULT
Those people will find work in other woke companies with no issues
There are literally dozens of them!
EIGHT YEARS!
These cultural marxists are only concerned about worker's rights if the workers have the approved politics. Everyone else deserves to starve. So much for the party of the people.
Wow so sad. Maybe they can learn to coal mine.
Extremely. :)
blame the corporate leaders. You can't astroturf playercount.
I'm surprised there aren't already bot farms faking Steam player counts hoping to fool people into thinking some woke garbage game has more people liking and playing it.
you can pump numbers all you like, the player count is revenue. if the revenue doesn't match the player count, something is off and you get investigated for fraud.
in the case of steam games, a game has to be bought or gifted in order for the player count to be affected. either you buy your own game 10,000 times and waste that money, or you gift your own game 10,000 times which is totally traceable and guarantees a fraud conviction.
Shifting from the guy's lack of strategic awareness to his all too common sentiment, businesses aren't charities. It's lazy and vindictive to despise an individual, group, or category of people then think they should provide health care, unemployment, other benefits; a form of manufactured cognitive dissonance.
For the sake of completion, I'll reiterate what I presume we all know here, that a person's salary is derived from the value they generate (subjective value, not the labor theory that cultural Marxism has crystalized in our population) and their ability to negotiate (don't support wholesale immigration). Imagine if normie-bait youtubers didn't pander to weak audience sensibilities, and state that the industry never should have never expanded to hire these peasants in the first place.
I've grown to despise discussing these socioeconomic topics with regular people. I usually get a platitude like "politicians and businesses hate workers" which they think are observations which agree with my point. Instead, they are generating cliches to reinforce the status quo.
"people"?
Halls Of Torment was made by a crew of a half-dozen people over the course of two years, and made almost 5 million dollars. That's a wage of very healthy six figures each. If you were good game devs, you could do the same. Go indie!
A good and fast artist can make mint just selling commissions, and make even more licensing assets.
The fact these people are "losing their livelihoods" is unfortunate, sure, but if they're talented in a booming, rich field like this one, they'll get snapped up real quick.
Of the handful of recent games I currently play ( Deep Rock Galactic, Timberborn, The Last Spell ), all were made by small studios.
There are still good games being made. Outside the woke-captured big studios.
They earned a very nice pay with their work.
Learn to code non-woke games.
Meh, it's just a concern troll farming points.
Don't make woke garbage and don't promote the anihilation of the demographics that actually play and develop videogames, and you won't be out of a job.
Woke retards are going to destroy civilization and ooga-booga will be the most advanced form of culture.
I had Concord on "ignore" but this post made me search it up, and read the Steam forums.
It's a goldmine of LOL's... I suggest everyone take a look.
Steam forums is a great place to troll and have a laugh, as long as you dont mind catching a discussion ban every now and then.
Supply and demand. If the demand does not exist, your supply has less value than a pile of excrement.
I think of that Air France flight whenever I see 'Concord'.