It is James Stephanie Sterling, a fool for you to enjoy! Among the longest standing critics of game industry business practices, particularly excessive monetization such as microtransactions and loot boxes. Owner of Boglins, POGs, and a Cornflakes Homunculus. A writer for Vampire Survivors, a pro wrestler, all with big boobus to boot!
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It sounds like you're reading off casualties of war and these people will call it "business as usual" or some other sociopathic euphemism.
Not going to mention Ashley's ugly redesign? Not even for a moment? Glad I unsubbed. See ya.
Im with streling f#¢k konomi!!!
Im with streling f#€k konomi
Im with streling f#€k konomi
So, this is what started it all
Personally, I'm just glad that Miss Stephanie finally got the Manta Force ship.
Making me Feel bad about buying videos was the best thing you’ve ever done for me 😅 like the idea that somone who makes people more aware of their own conscience is doing something negative is just fucking baffling.
"Is Kevin Spacey in this? I'd like that" XD ah, hindsight.
Well, this video got suppressed. Thanks KZread :).
i haven't thought about this game and years and rewatching this reminded me how much i adored it, what a nostalgia trip
If they distributed players by weight, I'd be happier for you. But what are my thoughts feelings and opinions for? Mattering? Pththth. Ya right. Have fun being a 30 something man that transitioned to a girl just to punch down. They don't sell products anymore. They sell investments. Cool. Now everything is a rich man's game.
It seems like Embracer Group decided to Extend the game industry and ended up being the Extinguisher Group. If you know, you know.
As a Tomb Raider fan since the 90s, I'm extremely worried 😢
So this game was made by a conservitive snowflake wow hes clearly dreams of u as his girlfriend but he'll never hav u yer a classy lady
This is confusing thank u sterling
This is confusing thank u sterling
This is confusing thank u sterling
The thing is they're not actually a publisher, we keep calling them that because that's what the origins of the company are, but in actuality they're a venture capital group, or they try to act like one. It's obvious to anyone that knows anything about modern investment culture, we've seen venture capitalists strip mine everything from fast food chains to big box stores to residential rentals. The fault here lies in those who sold their companies to Embracer, to deny that they didn't know what kind of company they were or what they would do in the future is just a lie, these guys are privy to economic information we don't have and we could still see it. The Vidya industry is one of the last frontiers for venture capitalistism, Embracer aren't the only ones and they're definitely not the last, if we're serious about protecting the industry then we'd pressure publishers and dev owners not to sell to these companies. But hey, we can't even boycott gambling in games so we go no chance. I mean Embracer is one of the most obvious and blatantly worst venture capital groups I've ever seen and we all let that shit happen.
Came back to rewatch this because Capcom just released a trailer for a Dead Rising "Deluxe Remaster" and I don't hear Frank West AKA TJ Rotolo in it. Therefore I'm immediately disinterested in it.
How many layoffs was it btw?
I am confused. if Embracer spend 2 billion aquiering all those studios, wouldnt the money they spend, those 2 billion be in the studios they aquired, so those studios can use that money to make games and pay their employees? isnt that how its supposed to be? I am not a big fan of Capitalism, but isnt that was is supposed to make Capitalism so good? that a rich person can go around and be "I belive in your company, here have 2 million to make a good thing and then you pay me back" How did they spend 2 Billion and there is no money around?
They spent without restraint i presume
"80 game cancellations. 44 studio shutdowns. 4,532 layoffs." It bears repeating. Excellent video on an abhorrent subject, Steph and team. 💜 Do I sense a new tee shirt design in the works?
Fucking grim.
As a person, I feel for each of the 4532 people affected by terrible management. As a retired Six Sigma greenbelt, I am disgusted that Embracer's management thinks this is acceptable. I'm disgusted that the management team put their own gains ahead of the business. The man that put me on the path to being a greenbelt told me, when I started, that he would never accept his staff being fired for cost saving reasons, his staff deserved to treated better than that and people will work harder when their jobs are secure. He was a great manager. What a shame that there isn't more managers like him.
Jim where did you find those clown and mime videos at 3:35?
Oh, it makes it even worse to see concrete numbers like this...
Not just trump but all conservitives are pure evil
Poter show me yer hairy voltamort!
Poter show me yer hairy voltamort!
Poter show me yer hairy voltamort
Just late day capitalism. Nothing to see here.
Getting this recommended 10 years later makes me feel... Old. Like, KZread, do you know what happened inbetween these 10 years?
You should try to say "Mon" "Ray" "al". Comes from mont Royal. tss... British 😜 Everything is fine, corporations can continue to buy and destroy companies. After all products come from pure "investment", right ? No need for useless people to make them haha ! 😅
Bruh I was looking so hard for the Bruce Lee puns. I figured you must have ditched it after the seventh "ly" went by. Sad, I loved them.
Bruce worked overtime last week, so I gave him this week off, lol.
@@ZMannZilla if that's your bit hats off bro. I normally hate puns with a fiery passion but those were great.
hello Jim Sterling
We can get as mad as we want, & we should, but it needs to be explicitly said that this is capitalism working exactly as intended. Embracer are an inevitable outcome of this economic system.
This is like marrying someone, stripping their car and home then divorcing... but you get to keep their family name and file taxes as if still married.
The idiocy of Capitalism never stops. Pre-name change, THQ Nordic was doing quite well. It was sustainable. But of course sustainable is not acceptable under Capitalism. You gotta use up everything, burn through all resources, in order to have "infinite growth" and to have it as quickly and extremely as possible. Of course, it isn't possible. Growth must be finite. Under some sort of sane system, the goal would be to reach an equilibrium, to exist in balance and sustainability.
All the poor people and games
As always, thanks for telling it like it is.
why they didnt call the company buttfuggers is the real question :D
Truly your 9/11
But for a brief period they created a lot of value for the investors, and that's all that matters
File this under "Shit I already know."
It really says something depressing that more people are angry at Ubisoft for putting a black guy in Japan than they are about Ubisoft openly fantasizing about turning video games into streaming...
I fear for what might be coming for Ghost Ship Games. They're actually making good stuff.
Do you look back on this video like how Oppenheimer looked back on the creation of the atomic bomb
I have to disagree with one of Steph's takes. Corporate execs absolutely understand consequences. They simply do not care what the consequences *are* - they will never have to reckon with anything that happens to their companies or employees, so consequences do not matter to them. It's less ignorance and more actual malevolence.
I worked for Embracer for 2 years - at Asmodee (their Board Game subsidiary group....thing) and it was just...there were so many baffling decisions coming down from the corporate and Embracer side of things, and we were under constant fear of layoffs. It was massively stressful and mismanaged as fuck.