Do bad? Youre fired. Do good? Youre fired "Nobody wants to work anymore"

@ElBandito

Ай бұрын

This is why capitalism needs strict regulations.

@Mewsashi-cz9fo

Ай бұрын

You have to look at this from a standpoint of slow motion controlled destruction of every studios and independent, buisenesses in the west, then all you are seeing since 2019 finally makes sense.

@maximvsdread1610

Ай бұрын

@@ElBandito Strict Authoritarian Regulations just like Singapore.

@AwesomeDakka

Ай бұрын

"we need more games like hi-fi rush to get us awards" fires studio that made them quite a few awards anyway

@RoboJean1994

Ай бұрын

​@@maximvsdread1610Yeah, you're right! Fuck regulations! Let them do whatever they want, free country!!! There's no problem in the game industry, everything is going fine, those fail are just not good enough, that's how it is!

Utterly maddening how many gamers will watch studios abuse their staff, bleed talent and be shut down in real time, and then still find a way to blame everything on wokeness

@klisterklister2367

Ай бұрын

But the wokerati killed my dog with diversity!

@joshuamartin4349

Ай бұрын

It's a shortcut to avoid culpability; humans can't conceive threats at grand scales but can latch onto individual concepts that represent a personal threat.

@sleepingkirby

Ай бұрын

@@joshuamartin4349 Tell that to the people that believe in Jewish space lasers.

@NamelessInternaut

Ай бұрын

BECAUSE WOKENESS KILLED MY GRANDMA, OK?

@DKG-85

Ай бұрын

I'm not sure what's being said here, are you saying that we should buy games just to keep studios open?

Very unfair to say game publishing execs just sit on their arses. They spend a lot of time abusing and harassing their employees!

@jamesrule1338

Ай бұрын

That's right. They work very hard to actively make the end product worse.

@JONNYSORENSEN_AU

Ай бұрын

im sure.theyll outsource the abuse to AI macros any day now

@bificommander7472

Ай бұрын

So they spend the rest of their time on other people's asses.

@OneWingedRose

Ай бұрын

And covering for literal therapists without the "the" !

@Kaylakaze

Ай бұрын

@@OneWingedRose The analyst/therapists, it you will.

I nearly gagged when I heard Bond call video games a "long term industry" when every AAA publisher has shown they never look any further than the next fiscal quarter

@davidspring4003

Ай бұрын

Next fiscal quarter? They barely care about the next fiscal day.

@cmdraftbrn

Ай бұрын

for these asshats. that is long term.

@HystericalSej

Ай бұрын

@@davidspring4003 Gotta get dem Pre-Order sales, bois. If we don't make a billion 6 months before launch, we're trashing this failed franchise and blaming the Gamers! Don't worry, they'll eat each other alive as soon as we say the game wasn't financially profitable to continue support past 24 hours!

@Bedinsis

Ай бұрын

Nintendo seems to have the long term in mind.

@mr.goblin6039

Ай бұрын

@@BedinsisNintendo has its flaws, but it’s probably one of the few gaming companies that still thinks about making games and making a profit without screwing over the employees that make their products. Now, if they could get their heads out of their butts about emulation and fan content, then we’d be swell.

Disney used to simply not credit artists, claiming that it spoil the "magic". AFAIK they only started crediting them because they were legally required to. That really is the platonic ideal for megacorps.

They couldn’t even be bothered to come up with a PR line for closing the studios, the cost cuttings gone that far.

@xcwarrior

Ай бұрын

Companies are probably realizing they don't have to make excuses anymore. They aren't going to be punished by their actions as 98% of video game people do not even know studios make video games. They just think they appear magically at the store or appear on the online store to be purchased.

@eugenel.1151

Ай бұрын

​@@xcwarrior Unfortunately you are correct.

@bunnylizard2717

Ай бұрын

@@xcwarrior Gamers already can't be bothered to even learn the difference between developers and publisher, so you're not wrong. I'm just begging people to fucking learn *something* related to the gaming industry besides "new game coming out soon", so that my blood pressure doesn't have to continually go up whenever I hear some blithering idiot say stuff like "I'm shocked that Hi-Fi Rush is so well made considering it's Bethesda!". FFS.

@LeadHeadBOD

Ай бұрын

​@@bunnylizard2717 not just the difference between publisher or developer, I had to explain to a guy that "Frostbite" is the tech that drives the Battlefield games, not name of some group of individuals... But hey, it appears on the splash screen when you launch the game and in all the marketing blurbs the traditional games media keeps showering us in, so it must be important!

@michaeldunkerton3805

Ай бұрын

They laid off the guy who normally writes those lines.

10:53 "Shit rolls downhill, and the moment you go from indie studio to corporate subsidiary, you've put yourself at the foot of Mount Rectum, with your mouth wide open." Love it!

Newsflash: Unions are a good thing!

@thomasneal9291

Ай бұрын

How can you have a union... when your company itself is at danger of being asset stripped if it looks good on the bottom line of somebody's corporate growth report? Unions are great for local control... but these companies are not being closed by local control. We need something BIGGER than the local union. a worker's united type union. Hell, when we struck as graduate students for better health care as student employees, we had support from the trucker's union, and that was back in 1990.

@Kaylakaze

Ай бұрын

@@thomasneal9291 No one said anything about a "local" union. You need a union that covers the whole industry (or more) that works in solidarity with other unions so that if they try to shut down a studio for stupid reasons, EVERYTHING grinds to a halt.

@UlshaRS

Ай бұрын

@@thomasneal9291 You do know unions can form without a company? Those are called trade unions. One of the biggest being SAG.

@TheSylda

Ай бұрын

That reminds me of when someone claimed Arkane Lyon was safe because they were working on Marvel's Blade... I pointed out Arkane Lyon is probably safe because it's located in France.

@andrechapetta

Ай бұрын

​@@TheSylda Indeed!

"Games are too expensive to make" as they spend $70 billion to buy whole publishers. The reason that those Bethesda studios are gone is because that purchase is small compared to ABK. They became expendable.

@tenjenk

Ай бұрын

The embracer group solely buying so many IPs to bloat the selllput and then the foreign investors pulling the seal.

@MareSerenitis

Ай бұрын

"Games are too expensive to make" they whine as they routinely get upstaged by indie developers with no more resources than 2 people and a dog between them.

@cmdraftbrn

Ай бұрын

@@MareSerenitis a dog, i thought that was a cat! lol

@sean8102

Ай бұрын

The biggest, most valuable company on the planet just had to shut them down. How do you expect little Microsoft to keep those studios running with a market cap of a mere $3 Trillion?! /s And like Steph said, MS and all the other big tech companies like Apple, Google, Nvidia etc are now obsessed with AI. Hence why Microsoft has invested $10 billion into ChatGPT/OpenAI. Created MS Co-pilot etc. And in May 2024, Microsoft announced a $3.3 billion investment to build an artificial intelligence hub in southeast Wisconsin.

@TowerWatchTV

Ай бұрын

While accidentally purchasing a second Lamborghini

At a certain point, “AAA” will be a boogeyman. Mothers will tell their children if they grow up to be a game developers to NEVER sign a contract with a AAA company.

@mesektet5776

Ай бұрын

@@auturgicflosculator2183 I know, but even on the curve of capitalism, signing up with these people is just no longer pragmatic.

@Youngson113

Ай бұрын

That day needs to be right now

@mediumvillain

Ай бұрын

​@@mesektet5776That's been the arc of capitalism for some time, at least since the era of financialization & the rise of vulture capitalism but it's more likely embedded in the entire ideology. The motives & incentives are no longer rational or pragmatic to the the long term interests of capital itself. The system is not in any sense sustainable, from food production to water to war profiteering to energy, fossil fuels & climate to media & entertainment to (in the United States) healthcare, education & democracy now being monetized industries, the consequences of immediate increased wealth for a vanishingly small class of people are not considered on any larger scale or timeline. The long term costs to society & human civilization generally are irrationally out of proportion to the ever-increasing appetite of the capitalist class. Beyond the amount of waste, inefficiency, corruption, precarity, misery, and death it produces, it will almost certainly become necessary for the survival of our species at some point to abandon capitalism as an organizing principle; and I'm pretty sure they know that and are slashing & burning as much as they can in the relative short term to accrue as much wealth & power as possible to fight back against change and prolong it as far as possible.

@OGMacGee

Ай бұрын

If you've built a successful business, NEVER sell it. You never know if it will find its way into the hands of a publicly traded horror show made to keep shareholders happoy until the next quarter.

@aerrae5608

Ай бұрын

Should be now. You'd think developers would try anything else honestly.

If the industry is curious about how game creation works after getting rid of the creatives, they can ask Konami about how the Metal Gear brand is going.

The squawking at the end had a lot more substance to it than the entirety of Sarah Bond's corporate speech.

@Stephen...

Ай бұрын

Was even able to make out a "Thank god for Her" near the end.

@AB-fh9zh

Ай бұрын

Eloquent and informative in comparison.

"The name's Bond, Sarah Bond. License to kill hopes and dreams"

@fenixblade6369

Ай бұрын

Lol hope that’s not a game also it will get shutdown by XBOX 😂😂😂😂😂

@Dr170

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, people like Bond are not a rare ware in this biz

@Elwaves2925

Ай бұрын

Sarah Bond: "Do you expect me tell the truth?" Gamers: "No Miss Bond, I expect you to lie."

@PartlyXenon

Ай бұрын

Remember, we have the discretion to remove your license. You are hiring it, not buying it, 008. Act with care. - Q

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

it's sad to see a black female executive talking like this, I know I shouldn't expect them to be any better then a straight white male exec but it still sucks.

"Games are too expensive to make." Well if they're too expensive to make you're in the wrong fucking business aren't you.

@sean8102

Ай бұрын

And as if literally the largest company on the planet with a $3 trillion dollar market cap can't afford to keep these studios open. But they got $10 billion laying around to invest in ChatGPT/OpenAI, creating co-pilot etc. And in May 2024, Microsoft announced a $3.3 billion investment to build an artificial intelligence hub in southeast Wisconsin.

@jamesphillips2285

Ай бұрын

@@sean8102 That was kind of alluded to in the video. If you don't care about quality, and want to re-release variations on the same crap over and over again: AI is ideal.

It's terrifying and demoralizing that a 97% Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam apparently doesn't mean shit anymore.

Almost as if a socio-economic system built on the idea of profit at all costs is antithetical to genuine creativity.

@jingbot1071

Ай бұрын

Noooo, couldn't be, better start reciting McCarthyist mantras before I start thinking about inconsistencies!

@peterclarke7240

Ай бұрын

It's antithetical to all life on earth. Not to be melodramatic, but humanity won't go with a bang, of even a whimper, but with the sound of eating. Capitalism is a cancer eating a body alive from the inside.

@paultapping9510

Ай бұрын

or indeed long-term survival.

@Vastin

Ай бұрын

Or human life, frankly. It's kind of amazing how billionaires and capitalists are wringing their pearls about crashing fertility rates across the globe, when the evidence for their soul-grinding economic system being the primary driver of those crashing rates is pretty much irrefutable. It's almost like laborers who are expected to work endlessly to support the 'unlimited growth' of the wealth of the investment class don't have time to have kids, or something. What a surprise... /s

@ysucae

Ай бұрын

or life in general. what do we call cells that keep growing uncontrollably at the cost of everything else? fucking cancer.

Closing down Tango was a very difficult decision. Think of how hard it was for the Microsoft executive to decide what yacht to buy with the bonus money they got for making number go up after shutting down Tango!

@jamesrule1338

Ай бұрын

I'm not sure they even buy things with their money anymore. I seriously believe they just jerk off while looking at their account balances going up. Spending and enjoying the money would be too normal of a thing for them to do.

@InsanoRider777

Ай бұрын

Guys, they're feeling the crunch too! The yacht they bought was smaller than last year's yacht! Everyone's suffering in this economy! /s

@ogre706

Ай бұрын

Won't someone think of the executives?

@mjc0961

Ай бұрын

@@InsanoRider777 Cue up the South Park clip of the detective showing the children all the poor celebrities who have to buy a slightly less expensive airplane or yacht because they pirated a couple of songs.

@Roadent1241

Ай бұрын

But now they're not going to get any new Evil Within or HiFi Rush moneys. 8C Just a smidge but confusing.

Are we gonna seriously ignore what Phil Spencer said about how Microsoft needs more gamss like Hi-Fi Rush after shutting down the studio and firing the talent that MADE Hi-Fi Rush!?

@Ampharosite

Ай бұрын

Phil Spencer is a bit of a hack so it comes as no surprise.

@peterclarke7240

Ай бұрын

Nope, but we need to wake up and realise CEOs like Phil Rectum and Todd Coward are glorified, overpaid salesmen who's sole job it is to be the mouthpiece and enforcers of the Shareholders, who are themselves a shadowy, nameless, unaccountable cabal of ghouls, vampires and other blood-sucking parasites. The CEO's are the Mouth of Sauron, but it's the Shareholders who are Sauron.

@Yin2Falcon

Ай бұрын

he said smaller/cheaper, yet still prestigious/award winning games (hifi rush never being mentioned in this context) from their perspective hifi rush only covers the second half of that - it wasn't a small thing to develop the consequence of that ought to be publishing tons of actual small games with a shotgun approach, but I doubt they will find the developers willing to do that under their thumb - those projects can be funded through more trustworthy means

@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342

Ай бұрын

Even when I was much dumber I was calling this guy a pos as far back as 2015 lol. He defended the lack of split screen in halo 5 yo! Realities of the day lol eat my ballz!

@stephen2624

Ай бұрын

​@@Yin2FalconAt this point, I don't think future Call of Duties and Elder Scrolls VI aren't gonna grow Microsoft. Just look at how they and Studio 353 handled their flagship franchise. I don't even think Starfield got as much acclaim as Bethesda's previous games.

Remember. If a person honestly appreciats your time and business, they will act in a way that reflects that. If a company worships on the alter of SHAREHOLDER VALUE, they'll piss on your support, your nostalgia, your passions, your friends, your family, your worst impulses, themselves, their people, their products and the entire planet to get an extra fraction of a percent on a quarterly report.

@NerfedFalcon

Ай бұрын

Read 'The Man Who Broke Capitalism' by David Gelles. I knew about 'fiduciary duty' and 'shareholder value' as terms before, but never really understood how they've taken over industry until I read that book.

@wcjerky

Ай бұрын

I have a bad news about companies in America, and about Ford v. Dodge...

at least they bought actiblizzard, who have since produced bangers such as: and:

@dm121984

Ай бұрын

Starfi.... Sorry, I fell asleep during my last sentence, what was I saying?

@evilbarrels2506

Ай бұрын

They published Sekiro. It's a good thing FromSoft bullied them into doing that.

@MasterCrumble

Ай бұрын

I think you wrote your comments in invisible ink.

@brodericksiz625

Ай бұрын

@@evilbarrels2506 Sekiro was long before Microsoft bought Actiblizzard, and the comment you're responding to is making the point that, since the buyout, Actiblizzard has not produced any bangers, keyword being "since" that is clearly readable in the original comment between the words "have" and "produced". Reading comprehension 101

@NatrajChaturvedi

Ай бұрын

Yeah it seems like Activision bought Microsoft instead of Microsoft buying Activision. This is the kind of decission one would associate with Bobby Kotick instead of Phil Spencer who has been crowing all the right pro gamer and pro industry things in the last while. (I know its just PR speak)

I've seen it theorised that the decision to close Tango was made before Hi-Fi Rush even released, due to Ghostwire: Tokyo and The Evil Within 2 not being big enough successes. Not that either game failed, by any normal person's standards - they just weren't successful *enough*. Hi-Fi Rush wasn't ever supposed to be a success, so the theory goes, it was supposed to limp out unnoticed allowing Microsoft to close Tango much sooner and more quietly, and the fact it was a massive success was a problem for Microsoft because it meant they had to delay the closure. I don't know how much I actually believe it, but it's plausible with how publishers behave, and that's damning enough.

@reksraven6909

Ай бұрын

that prolly makes sense tbh. Still sucks tho. But thinking of it. Hi-Fi Rush was shadowdropped with no advertisment at all. If it wouldn't have been for word of mouth I wouldn't have played it at all. It still sucks that they couldn't have saved them with a success tbh.

@SYLRMHA

Ай бұрын

It is never enough

@randomstuff-qu7sh

Ай бұрын

It wouldn’t surprise me if Microsoft’s entire goal in buying these studios was to shut down the competition. Lie to the government, knowing they’re unlikely to be held accountable, then make up excuses to shut down studios they never intended to keep. Additionally, their subscription service functionality gave it away for free to subscribers, further undermining the game’s success, by making it less profitable.

So essentially, if you’re a game developer, you should show up to work, do as little work as possible, collect your check, and go home, cause you’re gonna get fired no matter what.

@23Scadu

Ай бұрын

I think the real lesson is that if you work for any kind of subsidiary development studio, start looking for a new job.

@archelonprime

Ай бұрын

Hey, they're just following the example set by executive management, especially when they make bad and stupid decisions, some of which are copycatting from other companies! But the big difference is that these executives typically have "golden parachutes" after they're FINALLY fired after multiple fuck ups, a luxury that *doesn't* exist for all of the other employees!

@mjc0961

Ай бұрын

Execs after developers start doing this and the games don't get done - "nobody wants to work anymore"

@Kakashifan727

Ай бұрын

id argue thats the case for any job nowadays imo

I remember seeing a comment stating that microsoft was always planning to shut the studio down when then they bought it out. Thinking about it that way, I cant help but feel like the bubble is about to burst, where even a game they admit is a success "by every metric" isnt as valuable to them as the tax break they get from laying off an entire studio.

@fluidthought42

Ай бұрын

It's not the tax break, it's making the line go up

@user-sl6gn1ss8p

Ай бұрын

@@fluidthought42 how exactly does buying the studio and then closing it and firing everyone make the line go up?

@fluidthought42

Ай бұрын

@@user-sl6gn1ss8p Growth period = acquisitions to make net value bigger Crash period = closures to make expenses smaller, still own IP

@wctgttm

19 күн бұрын

​@user-sl6gn1ss8p On the off chance you're earnestly asking how the metrics are affected: Studio has just released a game, in order to develop a new game the staff will need to be paid for at least 2-3 years without an additional product being made. Microsoft elects to close the studio because they already have hifi rush on sale and can avoid paying staff for those 2-3 years. They cut expenses while still having the product to sell, they just won't have a new one from that team in 2-3 years. This is why Steph and many in the comments are calling it a short sided strategy, it boosts short term profit margins and uproots lives and careers, and deprives the world of the art that group of creatives would have made next.

@user-sl6gn1ss8p

19 күн бұрын

@@wctgttm yeah, it was earnest, so thanks for the answer, but I was thinking more mid-to-long term. Short term what you said definitely makes a lot of sense, but this has been a recurring practice for a while now, hasn't it? And the line has in fact been going up afaik (at least for the huge guys who are swallowing up everyone else). So I was kinda wondering how does that circle get squared. Like, is it that they can effectively replace the people later, or maybe that they get "investor confidence" which translates to more resources in the future, or maybe just acquisitions and IPs being more valuable to them than employees, etc? To be clear, I'm definitely not trying to defend the practice, I just think that it either has to be acknowledged that it somehow ends up working for them or it has to be shown that in fact no, it doesn't, in order to go further in discussing this practice, you know?

Imagine interviewing with a cancer tumor on why it should be in charge of the body

Microsoft also told the ftc they would protect jobs and not just shut down studios after the buy them.... Wonder if the us govt and ftc has the balls to follow up on this now???

@UlshaRS

Ай бұрын

Until the corporate shills still sitting in power get ejected from office. They are the biggest group of insider traders out there. Making far more than the average of their investments than the market actually trends. Why would they harm their own financial self interest even though all of them have a automatic lifetime retirement pension that kicks in the second they leave office. THEY WANT ALL THE MONEY!

@aerrae5608

Ай бұрын

Why would they? Our government IS Microsoft, and Tesla, Proctor and Gamble... Just puppets for these big companies.

@Kaylakaze

Ай бұрын

As if the US govt has the balls for anything but genocide.

@23Scadu

Ай бұрын

No, the people calling the shots are too busy eyeing their soon-to-be executive positions at Microsoft.

@CynthiaMcG

Ай бұрын

I suppose the only way to find out is bombard the FTC website with complaints about Microsoft closing studios they swallowed up just to make line go up.

Interviewer: “Shouldn’t succeeding in that way ensure the future of a studio?” Microsoft CEO: “Hell no!”

It's the corporate games expression of 'catch and kill' for news stories. Buy up all the competitors, lay everyone off. Disgusting.

AAA games companies still panicking because the most successful game of last year was from a studio that treats it's employees like human beings, has zero microtransactions or paid DLC and wasn't even a AAA studio. No coincidence the only full priced game I have bought in the last 12 months was Baldur's Date.

I genuinely can't decide if Tango gameworks or Arcane pisses me off more. Obviously Tango is inherently more outrageous considering they made one of Xbox's only truly successful games in recent memory, but it almost seems MORE insulting for Arkane to be shut down as a result of Redfall, because that was a game they NEVER wanted to make, and every part of it that caused it to fail was entirely the fault of corporate higher-ups... but those people are too "important" (wealthy) to fire.

@HadalStreetlights

Ай бұрын

both of these deeply hurt me. Ghostwire: Tokyo is a fuckin masterpiece. I love EVERY Arkane game except Redfall. I'm sick and fucking tired of these companies destroying things and people I love in the name of pleasing shareholders who should be in jail.

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

@@HadalStreetlights Redfall was OK, it had it's fun moments but it should've been a single player game and it really feels like it was being held together by duct tape and bailing wire.

So now that no money will go to the people who Actually made HiFi Rush, I should acquire it by… other means. Gotcha.

"Microsoft thinks you're all a bunch of gullible morons" Gotta go with the statistics... they're right. *sigh*

@jernaugurgeh451

Ай бұрын

I came here to say the same. Teh G@merZ gotta gAem.

You know that part in the Matrix where Morpheus tells Neo, 'people still hooked into the Matrix are the people we're trying to save, but for now they're our enemy. They're so dependent on the Matrix they'll even fight to defend it'? I'm finding it harder and harder not to look at people still buying AAA games that way.

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

people are allowed to enjoy AAA games genius.

@FunkyM217

Ай бұрын

@@jacksonteller3973Can't argue that, I'm still looking forward to the inevitable PC release of Spider-Man 2: Glider-Men. But there's less and less keeping me hooked in, every year. And one day, I too will awaken.

@martinrose2668

Ай бұрын

@@jacksonteller3973enjoying and buying is not the same if you know what i mean

@danielgehring7437

Ай бұрын

@@jacksonteller3973 Yeah, and they're also 'allowed' to scream and yell when they're asked to put on a mask during a pandemic, as well, or insist that the world is flat despite all evidence to the contrary. But at some point, their feeding of a broken and toxic system doesn't just affect them, it hurts everyone. Just because something is 'allowed' doesn't mean it's ethically defensible.

@Damian_1989

Ай бұрын

Jackson, you're always in JSS videos being nothing but a contrarian, you really think we didn't notice?

The whole Multiversus bit is even funnier in hindsight, as one of the new characters to be added to the game is Jason frigging Voorhees

Never forget: the only thing that grows without limit is cancer

@dkevans

Ай бұрын

Even cancerous growth has it's limitations, upon the death of its host. There's a moral in that story somewhere. 🤔

@lpnp9477

Ай бұрын

There is a limit when the host dies

@jlev1028

Ай бұрын

And stupidity.

@hayuseen6683

Ай бұрын

Scientists use a cancer culture that has long outlived the person who originally had it. Cancer can live forever as long as it's fed. Scientists have also contracted tumors and cancers from handling such cells that came from others. Only starvation or purifying fire stops it.

@TheKickPuncher

Ай бұрын

And your Mum.

I can't believe Microsoft bought up too many studios and stopped caring about funding them and their projects because of diversity. I've actually had someone tell me this.

@chungusbooper

Ай бұрын

It's an easy answer that people don't have to think about. Thinking can get hard, painful, and depressing. It's easier just to sink in a relaxing bath of bubbling chud piss.

@jamesrule1338

Ай бұрын

oof.

@xcwarrior

Ай бұрын

Well, what they meant to say was, "diversify their stock portfolios." And if they can't believe that, they are pretty ignorant.

@aerrae5608

Ай бұрын

Cult member... That's pure mental gymnastics to try and connect those. Dude is sitting there trying to put his plugs in other plugs level delusional.

@DeadHandtheSurvivor

Ай бұрын

Ah yes! Because nothing screams diversity like buying up game companies filled with sex pests and r**ists! What a very inclusive game studio that Microbrain company is!

With corporate mass layoffs, I'm beginning to think cruelty IS the point.

@Kaylakaze

Ай бұрын

-The Aristocrats!- The Neoliberals!

@griffen34

Ай бұрын

It is.

@Vastin

Ай бұрын

In a manner of speaking it absolutely is. The longer someone is employed at a company, the larger their salary tends to become. Eliminating their sense of job security by dismissing them can force them to accept a similar job for lower salary, or reduce their expectation of raises. So, if both company A and company B maintain their workers, they expect to face steadily rising operating costs, generally in line with inflation. However, if A and B both fire 50% of their workers, and then largely re-hire each other's dismissed workers over the next few years, this can reduce salary demands by those dismissed workers, who feel very uncertain about their career prospects, while the employees who were retained at both companies likewise are less likely to demand raises due to similar fears. In the end, company A and B and up rehiring to the same staffing levels as before - possibly with many of the same people swapped between them, but now they have 'controlled' costs through fear. So yes, fear and cruelty is very literally part of the system.

@Kaylakaze

Ай бұрын

@@Vastin I'm glad that I work for a company that just gives me a good raise every year without me even having to ask.

@sean8102

Ай бұрын

Honestly I wouldn't doubt if that is a *part* of it. Scares people into thinking they will be next.

It's good to know corporate greed and executive incompetence knows no race, age, sex, or gender bias

Just watched the GDC for Hi-Fi rush. That game, the fact it came out so well polished, so well made is honestly incredible. It was the first game that they made with Unreal Engine It was the first time they ever did any kind of game that had any kind of rythm based mechanics It had a single very solid vision of how the gameplay should feel and be done and it didn't end up getting sullied by some corporate wank. The lead dev didn't just want to make a rhythm game, he wanted to make and action rhythm game and knew exactly what that meant in terms of gameplay. Which also meant creating all kinds of specific animation timings to ensure everything happened on the beat of the song. I don't doubt that other studios will be scrambling to get ahold of the people who were on that team. But also it shouldn't have been that way... They should be the new studio that new devs are flocking to hoping to be able to join such an incredible studio.

@maybemablemaples2144

Ай бұрын

The fact that I can look at the game, no music, and still keep the beat is literally amazing. I hate the fact that we got one of tge best rhythm games PERIOD and it still got smoked.

Microsoft's Sea of Thieves developer team has been shutting down casual folk telling them exactly how to include more players and bring in new ones. Cause they say making the game more accessible and allowing people who wish to not be hassled to have a full rewarding experience is "not a part of their vision". The individual studios and corporate can't even get on the same page for wanting all the monies.

@gjshomeofsilliness9391

Ай бұрын

Counterpoint: not every game has to be risk-free to be enjoyable and if a game is not for you, that is not always the fault of the game. That's just personal taste coming into play. Although, yes, Sea of Thieves is a buggy mess of a live-service game that is somehow enjoyable to me.

@Stephen...

Ай бұрын

@@gjshomeofsilliness9391 Counterpoint, I don't think they should. Those companies should absolutely not be claiming to want more players while ignoring would be players. Especially with the way they implemented Safer Seas and claimed to be doing so on behalf of players like me who have been pushed away from the game from hostile players while ignoring those people. I'd respect the vision if it wasn't surrounded by PR statements and marketing telling me they want me to play it. edit: I remeber when Dead Space advertised itself as gross and it'll scare your nan, so I didn't play it. Not for me. I don't do horror. Just want people to be honest.

@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342

Ай бұрын

I'm glad I never stopped making fun of that crap game. Shame it got popular because dumb kids enjoy watching a streamer in a pirate hat.... Goodness we are pathetic lol.

@gjshomeofsilliness9391

Ай бұрын

@@Stephen... That's the folly of Rare's advertising of their own game. They market it as a pirate game for everyone, when it is not for everyone.

@Stephen...

Ай бұрын

@@gjshomeofsilliness9391 They got my money once and fed me to the wolves. Last time I buy a Rare, Xbox Studios, or indeed Microsoft product in general. They could make it accessible to those they duped and redeem their name but they've chosen a different vision to pursue. It'd be nice if they kept accessibility out of their public messaging.

I believe the so-called AAA game industry sees how dangerous these up and coming indie and AA competitors are, and this is part of a conserted push to cripple them and consolidate. The message couldn't be clearer.

Tango Gameworks deserved better. Hi-Fi RUSH is an amazing game with loveable characters. Also, the game poking fun at how corpo management works is on point.

@robertn.4329

Ай бұрын

That maybe why they closed the studio lol

Ah yes, yet another episode of AAA management openly admitting that they're incredibly shit at managing and that's somehow issue of everyone else but them and their employer.

As much as Redfall makes their closure more comprehensible than Tango's (not that MS needed the excuse though, obviously), it's criminal that this is how Arkane Austin ends. After dragging the immersive sim genre back from the dead and creating a genuinely great new universe to boot, being unceremoniously executed as part of a corporate acquisition with their last game being a dud that seemingly nobody at the studio actually wanted to make is a miserable end for a studio with so much talent.

@NatrajChaturvedi

Ай бұрын

I thought Prey 2017 was a masterpiece or at least the first half was. It could have been marketted much better and maybe the story could have been done better but its still an amazing game. Sad to see Arkane closed.

@nickalotdegit

Ай бұрын

Hopefully the Development Heads get to re-recruit (i.e. all the talent that got fired, then choose a different publisher, or even [gasp] go indie) but anyone saying like "we're getting the band back together" now is going to be told where to go, IMHO. Sad.

@caesarczech7920

Ай бұрын

Ohhh nooo diversity sloop should be subsidized Lol, you are outright making me syphatetic to capitalism wookies.

And that's why what I've done is maintain my classic 360, got its disk reader replaced while I still could, added the biggest hard drive I could, all while largely not bothering with Xbox LIVE games or anything else online. I saw this coming before the XBone nickname was first being shared. I saw this coming when Halo 4 was first announced, and I am someone who has never cared for Halo. Even my PS4 Pro was mainly so I could play the few games for that consoles that I genuinely wanted to play, and I did not get it until the PS5 was set to come out, so I figured that was the best time to get a 4 Pro. Seriously, do NOT buy anything new when it comes to game consoles. The Switch might have been the only exception for a time, but with what Nintendo has been pulling lately (and in more sense than one), I cannot recommend it anymore, and I just no longer feel any desire for one. Why bother with consoles when they're being sold as if they're smartphones, with a new variant of a variant of that week's new model? F^^^ Microsoft, f^^^ Sony, f^^^ Nintendo, f^^^ AAA(A) publishers, and thank God for James Stephanie Sterling, kid.

@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342

Ай бұрын

Some one who has always cared for halo. I TOO just stick with 360 haha. Just wasn't as good after that : )

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

I still buy new stuff but i'm always prepared for this shit happening

Nintendo, for all the dumb shit they tend to do, really are going to be Luigi Wins By Doing Nothing simply because they aren’t as aggressively shortsighted as literally every other big gaming company in terms of game development. It’s not that they don’t indulge in some of the bad tendencies of the industry, it’s just that they mostly go do their own thing while the other guys blow off their fingers with fireworks and honestly do a better job treating their developers comparatively. It’s a low bar to clear at this point honestly.

@faenethlorhalien

Ай бұрын

When you're not competing in a race in which the racers are at each other's throat, you tend to win by default when someone needs to declare a winner.

@mediumvillain

Ай бұрын

One thing that came out during the Activision acquisition is that ppl inside Microsoft hope to buy Nintendo at some point lmfao

@styx971

Ай бұрын

yeah nintendo is fucked for other reasons but weirdly enough this is one of their stronger points , and thats ignoring iwata taking a pay cut all those years ago

@AndyTheWatchdog

Ай бұрын

I don't know how many this has happened to, but it isn't that nintendo doesn't make a bunch of people workless. It's that the people loosing their income are contract workers. So it dosen't tecnically count as mass layoffs, which Japan has comparitavelly strict laws against. It's "letting their contracts run out", but the harm is the same. Dosen't help that their contract workers have been said to be treated as second class citizens... It sucks that nintendo are doing shitty things to their workers, but the rest of the tripple a industry is so ghastly that they sound like saints in comparison!

@koshetz

Ай бұрын

Nintendo is evil and working culture in Japan absolutely terrifying. But at least they don't feel like incompetent morons, which sadly telling about modern state of gaming industry.

It's depressing how these kinds of videos have slowly gotten over the last decade. At this point the government I seriously need to regulate this industry. It's getting out of control to the point the industry is imploding onto itself only getting the employees and consumers.

@faenethlorhalien

Ай бұрын

The American government needs to regulate a shit ton of stuff in America, but they won't because some idiot will claim it's communism just to score some votes with the fucktards who are driven by fear instead of, you know, reason and what actually benefits them. The state of : - The aeronautic industry - Healthcare - Social programs - Abortion clinics - Job market etc. wouldn't be the bloody omnishambles it is if the government did what they're actually fucking paid to do, which is REGULATE.

@Kaylakaze

Ай бұрын

Except the government (at least in the US) is even worse, being a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of these and other corporations.

@jamesrule1338

Ай бұрын

The ability to turn wealth into political power is what is going to kill humanity.

@guardmaster9620

Ай бұрын

@@Kaylakaze This is where we the people must come in. We can't just complain on the internet anymore. We need to take actual, organized steps towards change. If you really want to contribute, now would be the best time to join a socialist organization or any other group that best fits with your beliefs. The country is going through a crisis; it's not enough to be on the sidelines anymore.

@mjc0961

Ай бұрын

@@guardmaster9620 Okay. What actual, organized steps? We can't do anything via elections, the only people on the ballot are in corporate pockets. We can't do our own lobbying, corporations can easily outspend us. We can't do mass reporting to government agencies, they do the smallest of smol bean fines that changes nothing at best and do nothing at worst (see all the updates to Ross Scott's campaign over The Crew, every government is blowing him off) Do you have any meaningful actions people can take, or are you just spouting off useless ideological drivel?

Well, apparently I speak bird enough to understand 'thank god for me' in [repeated sqwawking]

@BroadwayBrittany

Ай бұрын

Glad I’m not the only one, lolol XD

Old Yeller except it's dozens of dogs on a (dis)assembly line.

@Kaylakaze

Ай бұрын

Kristi Noem just came at the thought.

@jamesrule1338

Ай бұрын

There's a mental image that will haunt me.

@ReikuYin

Ай бұрын

Lord that's dark. Fitting but DARK.

@bunnylizard2717

Ай бұрын

@@Kaylakaze a truly disturbing image

@tcpratt1660

Ай бұрын

​@bunnylizard2717 now imagine Noem on her knees right below the Mount Rectum of Bobby Kotick, lasciviously slurping all the shit that makes her cu-Skeleton Warriors!

"But it's now little more than intellectual property, known primarily for what owns it, rather than who made it." That is a hell of a quote.

Tango. Deserved. Better.

@sean8102

Ай бұрын

For sure. I was very excited to see what their next project after Hi-Fi rush would be. Like their next bigger budget game. But oh well. Hope all involved land on their feet and find a new job as quick as possible. As really sad about Arkane.

@AegixDrakan

Ай бұрын

@@sean8102 i was SO excited for Tango's next game, sequel or not. Seeing them learn from the phenomenal last game would have been incredible. ;_; And yeah, I'm sad about Arkane Austin too. Prey was the best Immersive Sim I've ever played. Worthy of being a successor to System Shock.

this is why piracy is justified with ALL games from activision, nintendo, square enix, microsoft, ubisoft, 2K, take-two, embracer, etc. these corporations have no soul. the gaming industry is making more money than any previous time in history, and paying their executives the highest bonuses in history.

Between the mass layoffs in the video games, animation, and entertainment industries in general, all of the studios and finished projects that were destroyed without remorse by executives to pursue the myth of perpetual growth, I can’t help but wonder what the final straw is going to be. Because at least thousands of people have seen their passion for the art form they have chosen for themselves undermined by their employers, and the idea of having any form of long-term financial stability and employment is proving to be just that: an idea. I don’t work in the industry, but I am getting sick and tired of all this senseless and cruel treatment directed towards people who just want to live and make art that they’re proud of. I don’t know what the answer is, but I sincerely hope that if a massive industry wide-strike does take place in the near future, we owe it as people who genuinely love video games to support the people who actually make those games, not the brands. On a related note, it is *very* difficult to feel excited for the forthcoming gaming events next month. How can I “get hype” when so many people continue to lose their jobs for no reason other than a corporation’s absurd, unrealistic, and unreasonable expectations?

Games Publishers : Making games is haaaaard, and too expensive. Some guy in his bedroom : Makes Flappy Bird and gets so rich so fast he loses his god damn mind.

These latest layoffs really made me sick to my stomach. Thanks for staying real. Thank God for you, James Stephanie Stirling.

Man the game industry makes me sad sometimes. Hi-Fi Rush was legitimately one of my favorite games in years, and for me matched Baldur's Gate 3 as my favorite to come out last year. It's really just heartbreaking to see such a good team be broken up because some soulless exec decides they should be closed for no reason at all. Fuck Microsoft.

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

I thought it was an OK game, didn't blow me away or anything so it wasn't a gut punch for me like it was for others, still sucks though.

@leejs

Ай бұрын

Not being able to get Hi-Fi Rush was quite literally the only disappointment I had when buying the PS5. But now that Microsoft has finally recognized their consoles are failures, I can get it.

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

@@leejs nah their consoles are hits

@galaxycamerata

Ай бұрын

If they openly admit nothing they make is successful enough to keep their studios open, it is not successful

Proud to be one of the five people watching JSS :D You're doing incredible work keeping the spotlight on this fucked up industry's flea-bitten underbelly. It's very much appreciated, even if it sometimes feels like it's not.

What remains especially mind-boggling to me is that we see actual examples of how a company can and should be run with places like Larian Studios, where the pursuit isn't ever-growing profit, but instead in ACTUAL growth of the company itself by investing in its workers and focusing on making great products in a market they specialize in. The pursuit of artificially inflated, ever-increasing profits by investor-driven companies like Microsoft is causing them to literally shrink, losing experienced workers and reducing both the quality and speed of their output because they rely on "cheap" contract labor to get anything done.

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

most execs will only look at the massive gap between Larian's games.

Little weird to see Max Miller out of nowhere there at the end...

@Allanon6666

Ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing! He specifically left his corporate job for KZread. Seems like he's the opposite of the problems Steph was pointing out.

@op4000exe

Ай бұрын

@@Allanon6666 I would very much argue the same.

@maximumgames2990

Ай бұрын

@@Allanon6666 They were using him as a reaction image

Literally the 2nd time in an hour we've seen that Matt Groening comic lol

It's funny how things just cant keep inexplicably growing. It's almost as if there are finite resources in the world.

I can't wait for the Hi-Fi rush sequal made by people who have no idea how to make Hi-Fi- Rush but were assinged by Microsoft to do it for cheap.

@maybemablemaples2144

Ай бұрын

Why did you speak this into existence 😢? And then the incels are gonna be mad because *insert woke thing here*

@awesomeness1122

Ай бұрын

@@maybemablemaples2144 I didn't speak it into existance its already being worked on and you know it.

Over the past 20 years, XBOX has passed on: - GTA III (Rockstar pitched it to them as an XBOX exclusive) - Gyration motion controls (XBOX literally laughed the inventor out of the room, and so Nintendo bought the patent for the upcoming Wii console) - Insomniac's Spiderman game (pitched by the developer as an XBOX exclusive) - FF16 (same) Plus at least one other really big fuckup I can't remember

@danhectic5629

Ай бұрын

Resident Evil 4

@michaellacy3699

Ай бұрын

@danhectic5629 that's it!!!! LMAO

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

Didn't know that about GTA 3 or Spider-Man, fascinating. Xbox also turned down Heavy Rain cause they didn't like the plot about the kid being kidnapped(which might've been the fuckup you're thinking of), not a very smart move considering how well Quantic Dreams games sold. Honestly i'm not the big on motion controls so I can't say that i'm too bummed about Xbox not going in that direction, in fact that was actually a big factor in me getting a 360 over a Wii as I was not at all sure about the motion controls thing. FF16 I don't care about so kinda eh on that one.

@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342

Ай бұрын

@@jacksonteller3973 Over 5 million copies of heavy rain sold? I played it for a hour and my kid got run over while I was busy being a lost moron in the mall. Fffffk that game yo! Then the guy who made it went on to make detroit become human. Another game that wishes it was deeper than it actually is but this one is even worse lol. Aren't humans complex and silly the game gets old pretty quick if you ask me lol. Also when are gamers going to realize that video game story lines, even the best one's are AZZ compared to something like better call saul so the bar is quite low lol. So this kind of a video game is going to have to do a lot more than promise a cute story to get me buying em up...

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

@@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342 nah it's a good game you crazy. Detroit Become Human is also damn good you are insane. When are elitists going to to realize how crappy and overrated the storylines in most prestige dramas are, Better Call Saul is alright but it didn't blow me away or touch me like some game stories did, certainly not the way Last of Us 2 did.

why have you got Max from Tasting History at the end? bit weird.

@nantu07

Ай бұрын

Yeah what's up with that?

@NeoSaturos123

Ай бұрын

Well he apparently used to work at Disney before he got fired in 2020. Maybe it's something to do with that? A victim of pointless corporate worker cuts?

@T.E.S.S.

Ай бұрын

@@NeoSaturos123 Doubt it

And then there is the Mr. Plinkett cameo that made me spit my drink. Wonderful!

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

eh I personally can't stand RLM.

12:57 Mr. Plinkett sighting!

Yeah ! Bird is back !

Skeleton warriors gag Also the degeneration of the quotes with the screen changing like @8:00 fucking killed me

The closing remarks were especially poignant this week. Bravo and thank God as always for Steph!

Just wanted to say that the completely/complete Lee gag at 11:02 is funny as hell

I saw that Multiversus was “releasing” and I had three questions: 1. Multiversus still exists? 2. Hasn’t this game been fully playable for, like, years now? 3. How many more shitty games are they going to try to save by cramming the Joker in it?

@AkumaKristian

Ай бұрын

To the first two questions, the answer is no. Last June they announced the open beta was ending and the game went offline. Don't worry, no one playing the game knew it was a beta either...

@Renoistic

Ай бұрын

They called it a beta since day one. They also happily took your money.

@floatingkites2420

Ай бұрын

@@AkumaKristian Hey truth stretcher, you could have told him that Multiversus was coming back in 6 days but you chose not to mention it for agenda reason.

@AkumaKristian

Ай бұрын

@@floatingkites2420 Chill mate, I just figured that's what they meant when they said the game was "releasing" and didn't think I needed to reiterate that. Honestly, Multiversus wasn't my cup of tea but I don't think the game is that bad or anything. Go ahead and have fun with it.

Great video today, Jane, loved the outro as well - Was waiting for the Thank God For Me line and you delivered

I find it so painfully ironic that the game about pushing back against corporate greed and valuing progress and comradery had its studio shut down because of corporate greed. Congrats Microsoft for being a perfect example of exactly what the game's narrative is criticising.

Max Miller isn't an Xbox exec, he actually kicks ass! I am utterly confused

@ZMannZilla

Ай бұрын

Editor here. I was watching the episode about "perpetual stew" and paused the video to go do something. When I came back I liked how Max's face looked like he was having a concerned thought about something, so I screen capped it. I have a ton of screen caps with similar origin stories in my "Jimquisition Images" folder.

@BigDaddyBland87

Ай бұрын

I was gonna say, I think the facial expression was why that got grabbed. That was still crazy to see.

@ArloMathis

Ай бұрын

I was looking for someone to mention Max, I assumed the confused look was the point. Great dude.

@MH-hu5pi

Ай бұрын

@@ZMannZilla Zilla! you sweet child! What is that at 12:04 ??? I suddenly remember watching it when I was 3 years old. Such a nostalgia punch to the testcls. What is it? Where can I get it? Please please please help a poor soul out.

@ZMannZilla

Ай бұрын

@MH-hu5pi is from one of the Minds Eye videos. The second one I think.

I'll have you know, corporate executives don't just sit on thier asses all day and collect massive checks. They also play golf.

@SirMaddaMMetzo

Ай бұрын

I heard they also poop and fart just like "normal people"

@xcwarrior

Ай бұрын

Oh, oh and harass female employees!

AAAAAAAAAAH!!! You're using Beyond the Mind's Eye footage! That makes me happy! ^_^

The sqeaking at the end sent my dogs into an absolute meltdown

Damn you Zilla and your cursed Bruce Lee variants. They crack me up every time.

Wow, the bird puppet at the end managed to say as much as Xbox' president in that interview, and much more succinctly. Impressive.

I graduated high school in 2000. Just before graduation, and with too little time to take advantage of it, someone told me about a scholarship competition. It was like $1000 to write an essay on the importance of brand recognition/brand-name products. Even if I could've done it, I wouldn't have, because I'd've gone full Daria and explained the exact opposite of what the sponsor wanted. Which is to say, it depresses me that these are all lessons we collectively learned generations ago, but we have to re-learn them as a whole every 15 minutes apparently. What a stupid species we are.

Hi, Sterling. You are the only bell I have ever clicked as of today because KZread refuses to show your videos. Even after binging like 20 videos, it will recommend one I watched 10 minutes ago or an hour ago and when I don't click the same video I just watched again, it refuses to show any other videos

It’s kinda interesting how Microsoft after all these decades hasn’t really changed. It like what they did to ARM, Apple and Amiga with Risk Machines or with OS that led to monopoly charge. Being arsonists to a sector to reduce threats of competition with disintegration of sector.

Thank you for covering this. Every expansion is followed by a contraction, and in the contraction phase, only the companies expected to put revenue on the bottom line in this year's financial report are safe. Sorry Ninja Theory, you're next.

Reminded of the old phrase "Infinite *growth* in a finite system is the philosophy of a cancer cell."

That saints row 3 menu theme unexpectedly hit right in the feels

I just find it so funny how obvious this outcome was but people just mindlessly thought "YOOOOO Microsoft has won gaming!" buying a dozen studios with games in varying stages of development and putting yourself down 80 billion or so is just not a smart business move if you can't absolutely guarantee their games will be huge hits. Especially not if you do nothing to help them become huge hits, Hellblade 2 is out in a few days or whatever and there's basically zero marketing for it, I can not see that game being successful considering it's super short and before people have even realized it's out all the reviewers will be able to dogpile on whatever flaws it has. Not that i think it'll be a bad game just there's no way it's gonna be a billion dollar smash hit, which is what Microsoft wants but does nothing to achieve.

@sean8102

Ай бұрын

I get what you're saying but truly $80 billion isn't much for Microsoft. They are the biggest company on the planet. $3 trillion dollar market cap. And they can't afford to keep these studios open, but can afford to throw $10 billion into ChatGPT/OpenAI, plus all the money they are putting into things like co-pilot etc. And in May 2024, Microsoft announced a $3.3 billion investment to build an artificial intelligence hub in southeast Wisconsin.

I’m tired of having new reasons to boycott Microsoft. My reasons date back to the 90’s, and the only reason it doesn’t go back further is because I haven’t bothered looking. As far as I can tell it’s been built into it’s corporate structure from the ground up. Other corporations may occasionally make worse decisions, but no corporation has proven itself to be so consistently EVIL.

"Games are to expensive to make" says the largest company on planet earth. With a market cap of a mere $3 trillion dollars. Also the same company investes $10 billion into ChatGPT/OpenAI. Created MS Co-pilot etc. And in May 2024, announced a $3.3 billion investment to build an "artificial intelligence hub" in southeast Wisconsin.

Let's not forget that buying and shutting down potential competitive game studios is also the goal. Plus, to gobble up the IPs attached to them. Not to use, but to hold onto to because big publishers don't want anyone else to have them. Either because it's lucrative or they're scared the competition will beat them with that IP or both.

Hi-Fi Rush was my second-favorite game of last year. All Microsoft accomplished by closing Tango Gameworks is ensure that I won’t buy another Microsoft game.

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

I wouldn't go that far, maybe cause I personally wasn't blown away by the game. It was fine enough and it does suck that Tango is being closed down now but I don't believe boycotts work so i'm not going to bother.

@2zuku820

Ай бұрын

@jacksonteller3973 iunno, you can say "don't bother" on the wider scale but also... why bother putting up with Microsoft on a personal ick scale? its not like its a huge effort to pass on em -- we're kinda at a point with games like with any other media where most people likely have a backlog of games they've been meaning to play, or games they're looking forward to, or games that originally slipped under their radar that Microsoft isnt really Compelling yknow

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

@@2zuku820 that's your opinion not a fact i happen to like MS's games very much, you're not the boss of me.

OMG love the Plinkett reference 😂

"You know, I'm something of a poor myself." Genius!!!

The comment about property reminded me of the Double Fine documentary where the Microsoft rep comes in and talks about, in this specific scene, moonlighting on other projects. The way he spoke to those people was as if to say "You are our property. If our property makes something then that's our property, too" The way the devs looked at each other while he was talking--you could see it on their faces they all heard the same thing I did.

I find it funny and sad to see how many youtube channels are covering this news like its a revelation or a hot news story they've just broke, but this behavior from corporations has been covered for years now by you on the Jimquisition. Its good to see more people calling it companies out though and the more the merrier I suppose, but I feel more should have been done sooner that's the game community for you I guess, when its something important and action is needed to counter these greedy corporations they ignore it or rail against those who try to raise the alarm because its inconvenient or ruins their hype, but when the damage is done it becomes unbearable then and only then will they begin to say or do something, and while I know this is not always the case and I shouldn't be so hyperbolic I still believe we as a community and consumer need to remind ourselves that it is to a large degree our fault for allowing this behavior to run rampant. Every time I watch a video about gaming news I always remember that you said it first, and thank god for you James Stephanie Sterling and all the work you do!

@jacksonteller3973

Ай бұрын

well most gamers don't follow gaming news that closely so they genuinely don't know this stuff.

It’s sad to see the games industry going this way but we really do seem to be about 2 years from the end of gaming as we know it. All hail the indie revolution that must inevitably come from this fucked-up mess we have right now.

@rockleesmile

Ай бұрын

Check out Vampire Survivors featuring iconic Konami IP Contra! James Stephanie Sterling actually wrote for it too.

Ай бұрын

@@rockleesmile it’s on my to-play list, don’t you worry! :)

To pile on… I used to think that these soulless corporations simply didn’t care about the impact of layoffs on the morale of people who are still with the company. That they didn’t recognize that misery in a workplace (from seeing your friends and colleagues sacrificed to the god of short-term profit) has a negative impact on the quality and profitability of the company’s products. Now I realize that this is all true, but it’s a feature, not a bug. These “leaders” love to rule by fear. The remaining workforce gets overworked and underpaid, because they are terrified they’ll be next. “I’m just grateful to still have a job” is the sign that corporate Stockholm Syndrome is operating as intended. Keep pounding it, Steph.

The attitude best summed up with by Quark in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. "The speed of technological advancement isn't nearly as important as short term quarterly gains." Except replace "speed of technological advancement" with pretty much everything.

Every now and again I think about getting back into gaming, then I see Steph Sterling being 100% correct and I realise I needn't bother.

@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342

Ай бұрын

Especially so this year. Remember 2014? Terrible lol. Here's the anniversary it's going to also suuuuck.

I can’t wait for AI to replace the executives when there’s nothing left to cut. For the value to shareholders!

@Kaylakaze

Ай бұрын

To be fair, it'd probably be much easier to replace the execs with AI than the creatives if you're looking to get a similar performance out of the AI as the people.

@YawaruSan

Ай бұрын

@@Kaylakaze oh I think execs should be the first thing replaced, AI would be the best CEOs ever, but executives won’t replace themselves until their shareholders order them to do it, which will be hilarious.

If you could only see how incredibly happy that random use of that Saints 3 track made me

"games are too expensive to make" is actually code for "investors think they'd get higher returns if they invested into something else, even though we're making piles of money"