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And nothing of value was lost
Now who will be left to make all of those "A day in the life of a game developer." TikTok videos?
>5 years later
WHY DOES NOBODY WANT TO WORK FOR US??????
Where have you been? Kotick left.
>golden parachute
He still won
There are several Koticks in all the publishers, the bigger the more of them there are.
This.
Kotick was like the Weinstein of gaming. It's nice that he's out of the industry but people like him are a dime a dozen.
oh no not the QuadrupleArinos
hoping everyone affecting by this lands on their feet
They don't deserve to. They chose this.
The workers getting fired didn't choose this. They just wanted to pay their rent.
sure, so they get a split second of feeling every bone in their body shatter before death. Sounds good.
I hope the people who are genuinely hard-working, passionate and skilled professionals land on their feet and go on to be the next generation of great game makers. I hope the stratified layers of useless HR bureaucrats, worthless diversity consultants and other assorted parasites land in LA’s homeless population.
I'm excited to see the kind of applications we get so we get to pick the cherries from the top, meaning actual devs. No more useless "idea guys or girls" and no more "videogames are cool I guess idk" people.
ACCELERATE THE DEATHS ARE NOT COMING FAST ENOUGH
>ESG and DEI is finally drying up
>Mass firings en masse
Good
DEI isn’t going anywhere moron. The leaders don’t care. They are crashing your plane with no survivors. They will be fine.
They no longer have jobs without said plane tho.
Typical low-IQ doompost
>DEI isn’t going anywhere moron. The leaders don’t care
Not the guy you are replying to, but they are literally disbanding the entire DEI thing and attempt to restructure everything under a new name, because of the extremely bad reputation it has, plus because of the Supreme Court decision allowing states to ban it entirely.
So it isn’t going anywhere. Thanks for the back up.
I wonder how much more theyll lose this time. People are learning. If its a corporate game its trash.
youtube and duckduckgo. Look up free game engines. Pick one. Learn it. If you cant do that youre not smart and hard working enough to do it.
"Working hard" is a buzzword created by boomers bro, nothing should be something that requires focus, hard work and time to achieve. Instant gratification is the thing
Lmao. Buy a subscription to all the ai stuff and hope you have magic prompts.
all white people
wait you hear about the rest of the tech field, its a fricking slaughter house.
Great Depression 2 Electric Boogaloo
I got laid off last month, I was one of the anons laughing at artists on day one thinking my job was safe
funny you say that, I was arguing with people about this and they called me a luddite.
Youre free now anon. The company was holding you back. Make the game they never let you make.
based truth teller
>make indie game
>have to compete with 50k other fired devs making their own indie game
You mean they'll need to actually make a good game for people to notice it?
Sign me in.
> im too scared of failure to try
> i cant realize I was already competing with people to get the job yet somehow did it
> I cant work with previous coworkers that were good to make something better
I guess some people are just slaves by nature. aristotle was right.
>an influx of shitty platformers and pixel games
Most people who make indie games for the first time frick up by not finishing it, making a platformer, and never trying again after the first one. Only the top 10% makes more than 3 games.
>have to compete with 50k other fired devs making their own indie game
That's why you build up a fan base first. And then you survive by serving this base.
I see indies working for 2 or 3 years on their first game and I imagine these guys are insane. How do you make such a big bet right away?
My reality is different from normal devs, because I make hentai games, but even so, it's a bit comparable, I think. What I did was set aside only 3 fricking months to create my first game. I managed to add about 4 hentai scenes and released a super simple game as an experiment. It was only after I started to see some engagement, people donating money to support me, etc., that I realized I could make a business out of it.
I'd say that at most an indie should spend 6 months on their first game, and that's a lot, in fact, the ideal is 2-3 months. A stupidly simple game with a stupidly small scope can be fun and put you on the radar of people who like your style.
based, after i get my demo made and posted I hope to work with you anon. Not on only hentai games but on all kinds of games.
It was the artists laughing first at programmers because art couldn't be replicated, reminder that when chatGPT first came out, it was all about printing spaghetti code. Now both sides are fricked
2D artist team was the only team not affected by layoffs at my company last month
My dad was laid off at his engineering job, the world is entering another great depression, especially the USA
also multiple billionaires have sold off a majority of their own company stocks. shits gonna get real bad for the future job market
>management announces new shake up
>thought i was gonna get fired as a data entry
>they fired all but one HR staff
fricking amazing
IT HAPPENED TO ME ALST YEAR BUT THANKFULLY i WAS ABLE TO FIND A WELL PAYING JOB
Anon
Here is what hollywood shareholders said
>Survive 2024, Brace for 2025 and 2026, and hope there is still a economy after it
2 more weeks, anon
>Reeeeeee everything is fine
Normalgays everyone
>The Roman Empire will never fall
You mean a process that took seveal centuries and a random joe barely noticed cause life was mostly the same for decades?
We are already seeing that, next generations will have it worse, but mostly the same.
There won't be a big crash, just a slow decline which is only a big fall in retrospective.
The world moves much faster than it did 2000 years ago.
wtf is happening to you mutts?
legit asking
Accelerationists are overly represented in Washington.
This is Biden's America
>figurehead somehow undermines economy’s foundation in 3 years
You idiots are just the same as the idiots who blame everything on Trump
but Ganker told me the diversity hires are the only ones getting fired? Wait, how many diversity hires are on this site?
Tech corps got to borrow infinite money essentially interest free. Not anymore
Finally. Modern life is intolerable and men and women will not be happy again until we are all self sufficient homesteaders with no electricity. The future can't come soon enough, I am so excited.
>he thinks he gets a hard reset for his life
>doesn't know how to build, grow crops, fish, hunt (skin the animal, cut meat) or use his hands in general
If getting a degree and working is too hard in today's world, why do you think you'd fare better in a world where you had to work 16 hours a day ensuring your survival? There's no McDonalds or doordash. What's your actual worth?
>if you don't like waging for Mr. Shekelstein, why do you think it would be better to live independently?
is it too late to go to college at 24? If I get my degree at 28-29 will I get payed like others my age or more? can I not have to do shitty entry level jobs?
It's not too late at 24. Start looking for good internships early and get your foot between the door. Also, one does not just "go into uni", getting it requires work too. If you have no experience or a good portfolio, why do you deserve more than an entry level job?
I was talking about skills. What use is a man who cant do shit in a world without electricity?
I didn't get my first job till I was 34. First internship at 35. There really is no excuse.
>why do you deserve more than an entry level job?
idk. I can work while I study so when I graduate I can get a real proper job
I wouldnt listen to gay boomerisms like
> why do you deserve
Nobody deserves anything. Its what youre willing to give and for what. Respect yourself and be valuable to yourself and youll be good.
Only b***hy homosexuals talk like you. Youll fall flat on your face if shtf.
Life is what you make of it, got only and only yourself to blame for it
Exactly like a thought. Aimless platitudes based on random assumptions. You got played.
Random assumptions? Is it an assumption to say that everyone is accountable for his own life?
and youre moronic.
That was the platitude. The assumption is why you said it.
It's not too late but college is a scam.
I know people who have doctorates and masters and work in bars and as waiters in restaurants because the only people offering jobs in their field would pay less than they make in tips
Good thing that you didn't go then
>get a degree in liberal arts
>become a bartender
People who get a 4 year bachelor degree earn on average 2 million more across their careers than people without one. Just because you know some burnouts doesn't mean college is a scam, you fricking moron.
AI will replace you
Is that how you cope with flipping big macs for a living?
>assumes he is nothing but a moron on welfare
That was a joke, ya big baby.
And people who start businesses shit kick them. I made half a million last year as a high school graduate. I learned a niche skill, networked then started my own company. I now got 3 guys working for me and I charge out 125/hour for each them. We are working in a hospital at the moment doing 10 hour days, 7 days a week. This isn't even the money maker I'm just getting in bed with some other companies. I make way more money on piece work but we all gotta suck a dick every now and then.
>And people who start businesses shit kick them.
No, the overwhelming majority of new businesses fail.
I dont believe them. They say theyre working but having worked hours like that I know they dont have the time to be posting on v unless they have underpaid grunts doing everything while they sit around doing nothing. It sounds completely like demotivation shilling.
What's the niche skill?
Door hardware. Supply and install. Those crash bars you see on the exit of every commercial building cost a minimum of 2k. I'll do a 30% mark up on the bar alone and then do another 20% on install. My guys or I can install one of those in 30 minutes.
Liberal arts degrees are absolutely a scam.
>I said so, after all
yeah but most of that career is in their 20s. if someone started college late they earn less money so it's less useless. furthermore, the insult that a 28yr old graduate has to work the same shitty entry level job a 22yr old does.
Money is money friend, it doesn't matter that much. I didn't go back to school until my 30's. Pretty much got free grades from the teachers who were my age. And after I graduated I was just happy to get some real money in my pocket, wasn't too concerned about office politics (or being friends with my co-workers)
>Money is money friend
I don't like being payed as much as a stupid 22yr old kid
is it worth going to college at 24 if I HATE being around 18 year olds kids? can I just ignore them (as in not talk to them or even LOOK at them) or do I HAVE to interact with them? I HATE 18 year olds. they're dumb stupid whiny moronic brats.
You dumb Black person. The bushman of Africa still stabbing wild animals with home made spears don't work 16 hours, they don't even work 8 hours.
Medieval serfs had more leisure time then the average 9 - 5 five days a week wageslave.
The idea everyone was poor, dirty, stupid and had to spend every moment of their life toiling is a complete fabrication with no evidence.
The bushman of Africa never knew the easy life, it's the world he grew in. He didn't spend his life sitting in a room since he was 6 playing N64 and eating hotpockets. Entertain me, how long do you think it takes to find a deer/antilope/etc., succesfully kill it, haul it to your place, skin it, remove edible parts, prepare them and preserve them? Are you seriously comparing an african bushman to a NEET?
Still way less time spent than literal 60 hour work weeks every week moron.
>60 hours
You're really a NEET with no work experience, aren't you?
Oh my mistake
>attempted push for 69 hour work week in south korea
>the same direction America is heading with that feminist hell hole
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-korea-69-hour-workweek-rcna75854
>Entertain me, how long do you think it takes to find a deer/antilope/etc., succesfully kill it, haul it to your place, skin it, remove edible parts, prepare them and preserve them?
Except they don't do that. They kill whatever they can get their hands on. Cook the good parts over a fire, eat till they are full, discard the rest, then chill out for the rest of the day. Then they do it all over again. Worst thing that happens is they don't kill or gather anything and they don't eat for that day. Sometimes they do a night shift so they can ambush some sleeping monkeys.
None to you and thats the way I want it. Try coming out my way when your modern wagie life falls through and get it boi.
Well, keep on living in that fantasy world of yours.
In that case, get into that school first
nice cope. Keep trying to browbeat people into your trash with platitudes.
Because I already do those things but just don't have the ~~*capital*~~ to ~~*purchase*~~ land of my own. Nice slave mentality you got there though, I'll be sure to remember you after the collapse hope you make it.
NTA but how do your licences work?
>no money
>no land
>grows crops, hunts and builds with no said land
wut
>Modern life is intolerable
Lmao. Yeah, it's so rough working 40 hours a week, having a roof over your head, good food to eat, and having hours of leisure time every evening/weekend to do whatever the frick you want.
>good food to eat
Literal goyslop where they shove corn syrup into everything is not good food for the body.
Where frickers in charge want to eventually force everybody to eat fricking bugs by 2030...
At least we get product that doesn't make you feel like suicide due the blandness.
>At least we
moving the fricking goal post I see.
>product that doesn't make you feel like suicide due the blandness.
Yeah it's already slowly killing everybody with all shit that's put in it.
>Literal goyslop where they shove corn syrup into everything is not good food for the body.
No one is forcing you to buy processed food. Rice and vegetables are cheap and some of the healthiest shit you can eat.
>b-but muh GMO
>the La-li-lu-le-lo is poisoning my broccoli
It's time to grow out of your high school Tom Clancy phase, anon.
Growing crops is something that the basic Anon cant grasp his head around or just doesn't own a summer place where he can grow crops.
Do you have a license for those potatoes? I hope you don't intend to sell them without giving Monsanto their cut. You fricking cattle piece of shit.
I eat them, I'm an yuropoor so Monsanto cant touch me
Oh, don't you worry. A good global conflict will put you in line.
>working 40 hours a week
Labor is valued cheaper than ever.
>having a roof over your head
Housing is more expensive than ever.
>good food to eat
Riddled with seed oils and onions while they try to get rid of animal products.
You've never seen a shovel or a hunting rifle in real life
Gaurenteed you havent. I do that shit for fun.
Reminder that you talk with people whose hunting experience comes from Monster Hunter and gun expertise comes from Tarkov. These people would be bottom of the barrel, beggars not desired by any community because they have nothing to offer.
> implying youre a real man
If you were you wouldnt be on here shitting on people you know nothing about. Those weak wrists aint carrying anything but a venti latte to the register.
>US has mass layoffs
>Europe doing fine
Kek, I guess that debt based economy doesn't work out when the interest rate isn't 0, huh.
European studios have the Embracer issues, but it's somewhat different since Embracer was always meant to be unsustainable get rich quick scheme to begin with.
Embracer owns Gearbox, pretty much a death sentence.
embracer's issue is that their entire business model was to just spend money they dont have and hope the saudis were going to foot the bill (they didnt)
You can't fire people in Europe just for fun because of much socialism, in the US you can throw the lives of people under the bus because risk could stimulate the economy
Europeans have been clinging on to the debt meme since the 2008 crisis but the US bounced back higher while Europeans are still being held back by their own crisis they had back then.
Europeans simply do not understand how businesses work. Or debt. Kek, I remember in the early 2000s when Europeans were self proclaiming themselves to be the up and coming tech giants because America was too volatile with its business and the war was going to be the final nail in the coffin. European tech never took off.
>have no tech industry.
>therefore have no layoffs
gg ez
also European and Japanese companies have much stronger worker laws and unions which means companies can't just fire people on a whim.
lol in Europe people are contractors and just don't get renewed. people love jerking about muh worker rights in the EU which is true but doesn't apply to contractors, so everyone is just on contract
Our currency and inflation rates are very low compared to most of Europe. Post-pandemic 48/50 states are rich than the majority of the EU. The UK is even in an isolated recession.
>doing fine
Top kek. Groceries are becoming nigh unaffordable and the same goes for electricity.
And that's a good thing.
Good. If the industry can get back to small independent studios of people who do it because they love it the quality of games will drastically improve. I want nothing more than these mega million dollar companies perish for their sins against man and nature.
>ESG funds dry up
>every woke AAA studio goes down in flames immediately
Guess people didn't really want that shit after all.
>Vidya companies have done everything they can to be unlikable
>They go out of their way to attack their base and pander to crowds that don't want their game
>Senior members either sell to souless VC and retire or leave and start their own companies.
>Suddenly games don't sell, AI made their jobs obsolete, and no one feels sympathy for them.
It's almost comical how far these people went to be unlikable, and now are shocked people cheer them getting fired
pretty much.
Unfortunately Blackrock will recover everything by scamming boomers with the Bitcoin ponzi.
>every woke AAA studio goes down in flames immediately
>Guess people didn't really want that shit after all.
Larian is woke af and no layoff anon
Larian actually made a good game so not a good example
I will not respond to any "it wiz actualy bad1!" blatant bait
It's just porn.
>John Romero
>Doom Eternal pic
guys im really worried.... is op gonna be ok when theres no collapse?
>Romero
>Doom eternal pic
>"I'm so sorry [that management insist on making trash and you got blamed] to everyone who lost their jobs"
Heh
The diversity hires, troons and femoids were genuinely rallying behind the "message" that was ruining the games. The actually productive white men will just find jobs elsewhere or go hail mary a project like the old days or join someone else who already is cause they actually can contribute to society. Any gays, troons and w*men deserve to fall face first in pig shit for trying to unironically destroy our hobby.
After the coof lockdowns companies realizes they could not only get rid of 75% of their "work from home" employees but it was more productive without them.
Noooo don’t say that or else im gonna have to call you a seething wagecuck!
Tell me you got stuck holding the office bag with telling me. lol
Shut the frick up! We can't let them know
Isn't that the opposite? Working from home is shown to be more productive than going to the office
Correct. Management just wants people to believe that they were less efficient working from home when in reality people were far more productive knowing they didn't even have to get out of their pajamas or waste as much money on gas.
Also corpo bigwigs didn't like that they were renting empty offices so they demanded everyone come back so they look more sophisticated.
In general it feels like companies are getting more hip to the fact that a lot of millennial employees are basically worthless and are not contributing anything, they suck out as much as possible out of the company they're working for, while ruining it for everyone else in their surroundings, especially noticeable with non-socially moronic millennial normies who manage to keep the charade going for long enough to get a nice payday and cause damage before being discovered for the worthless bloodsuckers that they are.
Or perhaps my perspective is skewed because I've noticed a lot of it in my immediate surroundings.
Yes I am assmad over something that has affected me personally.
Yes I am happy to see them getting fired and the people actually generating revenue finally getting their just due.
t. Zillennial working in a global tech scaleup
The hell even is a zillennial?
A fictitious generation those of us who do not wish to be associated with millennials have invented in order to cope about our age.
+ we want to frick zoomer girls so we call ourselves zillennials to not come across as creepy pedos
He's an insecure idiot who dictates his personality based on concepts invented for marketing.
im so sorry for anyone that has to read the opinions of a moron who made a "good" game 50 years ago
you know whats sad? journos being so out of touch that they use the picture of fricking doom eternal when talking about john romero
He’s one of the series founders you autist
good. maybe next time they wont hire Black folk and women
>John Doom
>Romero Eternal pic
Thank GOD.
I hope those homosexuals never find jobs again.
Frick nu-vidya and frick this gay industry I pray for 10 000 more layoffs hopefully at Ubisoft.
>ubisoft
Not gonna happen. They're too big to fail and they have plenty of loyal customers who say "yeah the last one sucked but maybe this'll be good!"
did you forget about the first AAAA game?
Id will probably survive and release games just fine, so will people who tend to work on proprietary engines that are used on games that actually sell decently and aren't garbage like Final Fantasy XV.
Unreal Engine is actually gonna frick over so many people because if you only know how to use that you will be seen as replaceable, I'm not even one of those that fricking hate UE5 but it's leaning into snake oil territory when it comes to actually producing games at a reasonable pace when we're talking about projects that cost 100 million or whatever crazy number they think will make a game not suck
So when should I start applying for the open spots?
Now is a very good time, especially if a hybrid wfh/commute is ok with you. I think a good chunk of the downsizing is because the workers are also very adamant about pure wfh.
>open spots
I don't think you understand how layoff work
In the tech industry layoffs have had a consistent 12% increase in job market within 6 months
So, I think you probably don't understand how stupid companies are
I got laid off from WoTC in decmeber and got a big severance package (basically 2 years in a lump sum + my bonus on the 14th of march), and they just sent me an offer letter for a higher salary to start on the 18th of March
It litterally cost Hasbro 400k to give me a 3 month vacation
What did you do at Wizards?
Lead programmer
Ew
Jews unironically give companies a bad name.
When a judge recuses himself because he thinks he's been compromised or can't make an unbiased judgment, is he "losing" the game? A white judge more than likely would recuse himself - a israeli judge never would.
>When a judge recuses himself
economic system is cruel because it want high efficiency.
Company see coming recession -> gamers becoming poorer and poorer -> reduce production -> reduce labor force.-> layoff.
we already saw average working hours drops to covid level and companies are actual kind to a lot of workers compared to pervious cycles because they hold them until the end.
All these fake employments were created because of covid PPP loan. Now we just return to the normal and achieve "soft landing". For tech, there are hiring freeze and layoff per 4 years in 2008/2012/2016/2020 and high salaries for coders are compensation for this risk.
What games did you work on?
Best part, I started 4 years ago
So I came in at the tail end of dark alliance, but didn't do anything
Helped with arena
Helped transition mtgo to daybreak
Helped with some other things
So no real games from those 4 years, but they paid well, are going to pay better, and have paid me for the next 3 years already
damn nice.
What's their tech-side like?
Is it the cancerous mess of manager agile buzzwords, languages of the week, stale mid-90s development memes and webdev ideology like everywhere else or is there some actual competence there?
Never. Go hail mary a project on your own time and money like the old days instead.
thats not how it works tard, plus youre now competing with 10000 people with experience
There's no open spots moron
And people said I was wrong for pirating games
>majored in comp sci because everyone (including Ganker) told me this was the future and all other fields were going to be worthless
>Just about to graduate now
>No one in comp sci can get hired anymore
Why did you lie to me? I am now fricked.
>He didn't go for a maintenance blue collar job which requires nothing to get into and has infinite job security because of the lack of skill workers
*Laughs in 120k per year*
is EE still good? is it worth going (back) to college at 24? or is it too late?
Go do a CNC machining course instead.
>Gets replaced by a illegal who does the job "good enough" for drastically less
>Has to come up with alternative realities because he can't admit he fricked up
They tried replacing people like me with 3rd worlders, unfortunately in a manufacturing sense when production has died due to a machine not working and it's costing you a frick load per hour of production lost, you don't mind paying the extra money for the guy who can fix it in 2 instead of 40 hours (Not a shitpost this is a true story)
Pajeets are taking all the it and white collar jobs nowadays, keeping coping
>the guy who can fix it in 2 instead of 40 hours
I love being this guy, and I love buttfricking my manager with a "go ahead, try someone else and see how it goes"
Have fun in your 60's and 70's considering putting a bullet in your mouth every single day because you're in so much pain from ruining your body every day and pain pills basically do nothing for you anymore.
I'd much rather be poor and not a miserable wreck in my older years than what I've seen blue caller workers go through.
>destroy your brain not your body
Truly the thinking man's decision.
ESL moron
Get hired in a non-gaming job, stupid.
Anon, when any profession is on hype it's too late
Compsci is still one of the best career fields you can study. It's game dev that has to worry
what jobs can you actually do with a compsci degree? all the time i just hear code code code
Just be a programmer. It's remote only and some of the best paid jobs in the world right now. You also work like 3 hours per day
how do I become a programmer as a dumb neet? I suck at the most basic math but I want to learn
use unreal and learn blueprints, yer never gonna be better than an actual coder anyway
but I want to code
gay
don't forget yer socks 😉
Deffo learn to code, certainly python as it's used to automate shit literally everywhere, but focus on what you're interested in compsci for.
Comsci is fine. Ironically it's coding which is fricked
>learn to code
Lel
learn to mine cobalt
Learn hardware installations and you will be set for life.
This guy gets it. It's like being a car mechanic. It ain't the most glamorous work, but you will always HAVE work.
i can pick parts and build my own computer
can i do something with this?
>everyone (including Ganker) told me
lmfao
Total AAA Slop Death
>Aggressively expand in all directions
>Make shit
>Aggressively cut back
Every major entertainment industry has had a point like this, it's just that video games are new enough that we're only experiencing it now.
I'd do it again too.
What would we actually miss out on?
Curious how we don't hear anything about Eastern Devs being laid off... not Japs, not asiatics, not even slavic studios. Funny that.
None of these have bean making shitty Live service games.
They still make buy once play forever whit occasional dlc or expansion games.
>None of these have bean making shitty Live service games.
what do you think gacha is?
NTA. Gacha is absolutely live service slop, but it also panders directly to their coomer brain rot audience. They give them breasts and ass instead of moralizing and purposefully ugly characters. It's a service that's actually *serving* an audience instead of making games no one wants.
Because their economy aren't dependent on fricking blackrock, that is what happen when a corporation bails a government, its a time bomb.
Anon Japan's economy is in a recession. The yen is in the fricking toilet.
Soooo the same as the last 35 years?
Publishers do still have some purpose, funding and advertising, but right now they're really shit at both because all their time and money is consumed by the AAA machine.
The yen is the weakest it's been right now since 1999
>because of practices the US adopted since the COVID pandemic
this is the fun bit
They've been in a "recession" for decades and they're fine. In 100 years Japan will still exist. The West has to import millions of third worlders because muh stock market and muh gdp must always go up or else boomers can't retire and spend their final 30 years watching tv
Will it really though?
We're probably going to have a Maximilien Robespierre situation pretty soon here. These illegal immigrants is are going to get so frick... unless they want to go and die in Ukraine or Isreal. Then maybe we can work out a deal for "citizenship".
Nice cope, Eric
>high budgets and long lead times
Frick around and find out
They're just getting rid of the fat they hired over Covid. My cousin worked at an IT consultation but also got laid off, not for underperforming or similar but there simply wasn't enough work to begin with. You can see it in every IT industry at the moment. Unless you were hired before Covid you probably will get laid off.
>They're just getting rid of the fat they hired over Covid.
No they aren't. They're shutting down studios and cancelling games left and right.
don't think this will make games "based" again, you still have to go through woke middle men like puplishers as well as platforms as well as payment processors, etc.
I don't think we'll get based games for as long as we depend on big woke platforms. I only know one based game this year which was "The Great Rebellion".
Games are distributed digitally now, devs don't need "puplishers" anymore.
and where are they distributed? Steam, PSN, Xbox, etc. all woke platforms which will remove your games if they see it as a threat. and even if the platforms are "based", the hosts and payment processors will be woke.
We need a decentralized videogame platform that is free (as in freedom).
>devs don't need "puplishers" anymore
only for indie games
Japan is hiring.
Yeah, but they use actual IQ tests and require real portfolios/skill which would filter out most of the diversity hires and h2bs.
Japan is dying
There are 125 million people in Japan you moron. The population is going down because they're all crammed into a small island nation but it won't keep going down forever.
>The population is going down because they're all crammed into a small island nation
That doesn't stop Bangladesh.
Compare the average IQ of Japan and Bangladesh and you may see the reason why.
One day they will realize that the Catholic church was right all along and Tokugawa was wrong and adopt Humanae Vitae's rejection of contraception/abortion, role of the woman, role of the man, etc. which will solve their population problem and if they didn't take immigration, they won't have to deal with the immigrant problem.
But it's game development companies are hiring.
What's gonna stop it from going down forever?
>What's gonna stop it from going down forever?
When it gets low enough people will have enough space to actually raise families again, they don't want to do that when they're all crammed into tiny boxes. Stop falling for the ~~*capitalists*~~ telling you that infinite population growth is necessary.
So, as long as people have enough space, they raise big and abundant families? Are you sure that's your hypothesis?
They won't be going extinct like you seem to think they will.
Then, based on your hypothesis, Russia should have a booming population. Australia and Canada, too. The USA and China and Brazil should also have skyrocketing fertility rates.
His hypothesis is correct, then. Those countries' native populations aren't (immediately) in danger of going extinct, at least for two more generations.
Her hypothesis would be correct if those populations were booming. In fact, they would need to have the highest fertility rates in the world, not just avoiding extinction, for her hypothesis to be correct.
People whose lives have improved and have hope for the future have families.
People whose lives have gotten worse than they grew up with do not.
Jews unironically give capitalism a bad name.
capitalism and communism are two sides of the same coin. both serve the israelites and hurt the whites
Communism was invented by israelites; capitalism was not.
The system is flawed
It's not capitalism when you have 2% hebrew mafia in charge of 70% of capital
The same people who will find fault with capitalism will say antisemitism is a step too far, even though israelites have very similar faults, if not worse. I think that's dishonest.
>True capitalism never tried
>travel to a commune 2 hours outside of your city
>"Woah, communism works!"
>buy a fritter for a toonie at a cafe
>"Woah, capitalism works!"
Whether it's an eocnomic system or a political system (monarchy, dictatorship, democracy, etc.), every possible way of organizing humans in society can work in some form of effectivity so long as everyone wants what is best for the community. The biggest problems always appear whenever israelites/Canaanites show up and begin exploiting the weaknesses of these high trust societies.
These people sincerely believe they're allowed to go outside on their day of rest (Saturday) because wrapping a line around their part of town means they haven't left their property. It's a "if it was bad, God wouldn't allow me to" way of thinking.
>It's not capitalism when you have 2% hebrew mafia in charge of 70% of capital
Play the game and lose it. complain the game is unfair.
Immigration is meant to ensure this never happens. Quality of life can only ever go down.
>Western AAAA slop factories are reaping what they sow
oh no
anyway
i am not sorry for these people. stop making dogshit game
If these people had any value what we would be seeing is this massive surge in indie gaming. New studios, new 1 dev projects, just hit after hit as the indie world gets swarmed with new talent. Imagine the masterpieces talented devs could make if they were not chained to these dead end jobs where they are just a cog in a billion dollar project like GTA. If you work for such a company you're a nobody, you will sit at the desk making thousands of game models only for 2 to make it in the game. You're a waste.
Getting them out and having them do their own projects cause the biggest indie game boom we have ever seen. The indie scene should overtake the AAA industry so hard that they will beg these people to come back as AAA games can't compete.
But that's not what happened or will happen, because none of these people had any talent or skill.
I don't know why anyone would ever willingly work at a game studio unless they know nothing about the industry
Total Vidya Death
The industry NEEDS a winnowing. It's massive, bloated, and stagnant. It sucks to lose your job, but the thing about artistic/technical jobs is that if you're undeniably talented, you WILL get a job. If you have even a moderate amount of creativity you can crowd-fund a game until you get picked up by a publisher; shit's never been easier.
The industry NEEDS to shrink, not grow, in order for us to get a higher percentage of quality products. The people making the decisions about what gets greenlit or not are so far removed from the industry that it's laughable; they're responsible for the slop-shotgun style of development. It's finally failed enough that the industry is starting to move on from it.
I'm sorry.
>ESG fund collapses
>Jacob Rothschild finally kicks the bucket
>absolutely everything falls apart
Was this really it? For the past what, 14 years, a couple of rich turbohomosexuals were propping everything up while making it brown and gay?
Jacob Rothschild is dead? when?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Rothschild,_4th_Baron_Rothschild
3 days ago.
You know the end of LotR when the Ring is destroyed and the evil sustaining the orcs is destroyed thus the orcs all disintegrate?
Jacob Rothchild was Sauron. But Melkor is still unacounted for.
>L-l-look et yew, 'acker, un pathetiq creaature uv meet un bone
>Jacob Rothschild finally kicks the bucket
Nice
Anons, please do not denigrate the brainchild and prolifterator of modern femboys.
Ok but why is this happening. Why all at once.
Bubble burst
Dead rothschild and Larry Fink did a rug pull on esg shit. He was a hero, I just couldn't see it
Even worse, who died was IRL C. Montgomery Burns
And his Antichrist spawn of nephew is a Moron that makes Carmine Lupertazzi Jr look like a genius. which is true because Carmine Jr won in the end
You are not entitled to the money I earn. You want my money? You have to earn it just like I did, and brother you are not doing a good job.
I TRIED SO HARD
AND FELL SO FAR
BUT IN THE END
IT DOESNT EVEN MATTER
I HAD TO FALL
TO LOSE IT ALL
BUT IN THE END
IT DOESNT EVEN MATTER
AT ALL
This homosexual troony must be raging so hard rn lmao
Xhir was one of the Suicide Squad devs that got laid off shortly after that tweet lmfao
he's not and never has been a game dev
>we just want acceptance!
Billions.
>You did this.
We didn't cause the last decade+ of inexpensive money through loans.
Reminder that a israeli CEO has more in common with the average israelite than with a white CEO.
It’s over
I want every single DIE hire jobless, homeless and suffering horrible pain within the next month. They ALL deserve to be executed for transgressions against the gaming community. Frick these SJWs. They ruin everything just so billionaires can stay in power and they keep their chains.
Good, go woke go broke.
It's about time this industry trimmed all the fat and the useless eaters.
Oh who am I kidding, all the layoffs are likely white software engineers and veterans.
This all happened because some Facebook boomer that happens to own companies serendipitously saw your posts against ESG and it moved him and now he's pulling out from everything which causes others to do the same.
We did it Reddit!
We did it
Unironically
It's been close to a decade since I bought anything except indie games. Every single one of those people deserved what they got.
>service economy running on trillions of dollars of debt eventually collapses
Who would have thunk
>10,000 LAYOFFS IN ONE MONTH
I hope that everyone is ready for the AI slop.
A lot of people don't realize this but corporations will replace humans as fast as they can. Currently there is no workers protection against AI. We're fricked. It will be just the rich and their robotic servants in the end.
Jews unironically give corporations a bad name.
Corporations give corporations a bad name.
Even if israelites aren't present corporations are hebrew in spirit.
A system is only ever as good as the people in it. Always.
>Replace everyone with AI
>Plebs aka consumers have no dosh and so can't buy shit
>WOW.DSP
Get ready for slavery 2.0. You still have your body goy.
>onlyfans
>sports
>new age gladiators in MMA
>organ harvesting
>etc.
You will get the shit beaten out of you for the entertainment of others or have all your holes gaping from massive dildoes. Welcome to the future.
Don't worry, they'll make more useless jobs, like smashing jellyfish on a conveyor belt with wooden mallets. Two dollars an hour.
>only fans
unironically going to be replaced by shit. prostitute houses tho are going to make a bigly comeback.
>prostitute houses tho are going to make a bigly comeback
filled with real dolls
Imagine being the poor s.o.b that gets paid 5 bucks an hour to clean out real dolls for a living
>israelite this
>ai that
>woke this
everyone missing the bit where boomers sold the very land under their feets to (foreign) corporations instead of leaving it for their kids and their children childrens, replaced our food with empty genetically modified slops, exported all jobs abroad.
Literally utterly fricked
Sounds like you had shitty parents, some of us weren’t raised by quite so selfish morons. The israelites on the other hand hurt all of us
grim
cant be worse than hordes of swarty thridworld being hired as extra(main) code monkey
>a lot of people don't realize this but corporations will replace humans as fast as they can
We know, they've been importing pajeets like there is no tomorrow.
>it's good and actually sells
>it's trash and doesn't sell just like before AI overlord took over
what's the issue?
>the israelite is in this thread with us ready to defend AI slop
>Romero
>Doom Eternal picture
somebody post the image
>it's not woke fault
>it's not israelites
>it's capitalism
>it's AI
>great depression is coming chud
It unironically is. Just look at how bad square and sega are doing.
What does that have to do with anything?
Nature is healing
>great depression is coming chud
no friend of mine is not rooting for another Great Depression
>I want to live in poverty to own the libs
Why are some people like this?
I want them to suffer is all
>just started branching out into a tech/programming/IT job
I have the best fricking luck.
Bidenomics is working
who could have guess that hiring apparatchik and diversity hires would make games bomb and bomb for almost a decade until you can no longer just be right in your propaganda but also have some gameplay behind it to sell as well
that image is a hilarious mess
But I thought modern corporations were operating for profit. I thought woke stuff just sold because it's popular. I thought consumers were just cattle. I thought more government would fix this.
Let's shoot for 10 thousand more bros
>10,000
Not enough.
Grim
CULL THE HERD
REND THE FLESH
SCALP AND SCALP AND SCALP UNTIL ANY AND ALL PROGRESSIVE HIRES ARE GONE
ONLY PASSIONATE AUTISTS AND TECHNICAL GENIUS SHOULD REMAIN
RAISE THE GATE AND KEEP THESE homosexualS
OOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT
I don't give a single shit.
You reap what you sow.
Get utterly fricked
not my fricking problem, i left working for a company programming shitty systems to become a blacksmith. i now live in the mountains.
what was it a bunch of coders from the tech industry told truckers a while back? it was something related to lay offs... what was that again?
>truckers
>We’re seeing too many trucks for too little freight
>https://www.freightwaves.com/news/layoffs-and-bankruptcies-pile-up-in-logistics-amid-shocking-downturn
welcome to joe's soft landing.
Again, what does israelites have to do with square or sega?
They are probably preparing the terrain for the new AI technologies.
They will ask their remaining employees to use AI in order to keep with the absurdly short deadline they will implement, those who adapt will stay and those who refuse will be fired and replaced.
>use ai to make this game
>why? I can code it myself just fine and I'm gonna read over what the ai came up with anyway
>just do it goy!
Total
Snoy
Death
ww3 is looming and you want me to care about the video game industry ?
>ww3 is looming
just two more weeks
homie, AAA games now take longer to develop than console's lifespan.
The graphics race sucks the soul out of everyone working on assets to have the most fidelity and densest pixels possible.
Chasing ESG scores means every game needs to have tired, "industry approved" tropes such as Bodytype A/B character creators (forget about unique mechanics for men and women separately, because everything is equal so for example in BG3 every character is a pansexual sexfreak who is into your character no matter what a circus abomination you make, since sex/gender does not matter anymore).
They ask you to pay 70$ for a game, justifying it with inflation, but conveniently ignore the fact that day one DLC, season passes and Game as a Service model exist (and it's been proven that a games earns more from the post-launch support than the initial sales).
95% of developers admit they want to make a live service game, without realizing the market can only support few of them as people have limited time.
Creativity is so dead, we now have more remakes than ever.
AAA devs now only make gigantic blockbusters because the indie scene is so fricking saturated that the only way they can be safe from the flood of the shovelware is to make a game so expensive no indie dev could ever hope to make it or compete on the marketing field.
And people wonder why industry is going to shit? It's going to only get worse.
>homie, AAA games now take longer to develop than console's lifespan.
Derr, moron.
So housing prices are going to skyrocket again, right?
yes. fed lower interest rate in summer.
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They should have found a way to squeeze in more ugly protagonists and troony flags.
Isn't the industry just downsizing because it thought the growth wouldn't stop?
Pretty much.
The first crashes of the gaming industry in the 70s and 80s weren't from layoffs, they were from lack of purchase. People weren't shoving coins in arcade machines, the home consoles of the era were simply not being bought and the games less so. The mass deficit in consumption vs production in 83 was equivalent to like a two billion dollar loss IIRC. 77's loss was specifically due to console quality, 83's was game quality.
I say all this to indicate this isn't a crash. This is a trimming of the fat of unnecessary and unvalued game devs and consequences of failed acquisitions. They're, at worst, tax write-offs. Income is continuing to successfully outpace costs across the board in the industry because the average consumer is a moron who whales for MTX and ad revenue. No crash is gonna happen until people actually stop playing these games, and that simply won't happen. India and China alone are propping it up and unless the Ganges floods and the Three Gorges Dam breaks, there will never be a deficit in income.
I wouldn't get very hopeful for a crash - but if you're business-minded and are willing to take really dumb risks, starting your own vidya dev companies (even if you primarily work in their accounting and finances sector and let the nerds do their creative shit) can get you a surplus of low-income (since they'll look for any work they'll get) recently laid-off experienced devs and start pumping out slop for a guaranteed profit since you can fund the initial projects through software dev venture capital since that shit still exists in ABUNDANCE - plus you'll make western devs suffer a little, and that's based.
The problem with starting a new company is a couple of things
>A single AAA game dev makes around 80-120k per year. With contract work only it's still a lot, and contract work is mostly stuff anybody can do
>The average successful game that gets over 1k reviews only makes 100-300k after Steam cut and taxes
>Mobile game dev is has much more risk to get people addicted, and is facing the same layoffs AAA gaming has
Any vidya company that hires people with good wages to attract good devs instead of trash would have to accept losses and be run off loans like a zombie company to constantly supply itself before death. Most other tech companies are much more viable. Even running a restaurant is more viable.
Arcades were actually doing just fine in the early 80s, the crash really only applied to home consoles but you're right we won't see something like that again. However, you're wrong about revenue because the game industry is beginning to reach maximum saturation and we are at a point of diminishing returns. AAA as we know it might not survive because budgets are rising but revenue is stagnating.
LETS FRICKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>Go public
>Be beholden to investors who only care about growth
>Be shocked when you get fricked for making a product to suit investor interests, and not customer interests
>The same industry where entitled devs go all muh "don't play it if you don't like it"
Lmao even
Oh also
>Big companies with diversity and OSHA initiatives instead of a couple of passionate sweaty dudes with a passion
Palworld was honest in this sense
Jews unironically give investors a bad name.
we didn't do shit, this is capitalism working as designed, suits will do anything for short term profit, including firing the people that makes them money
>short term profit is whatever I don't like
no anon, firing your employees so you don't have to pay them makes the numbers look better when you report the profits of the product, thats short term profit because it's not thinking forward at all and will bite them in the ass because having to rehire people for the next project costs way more.
So how can you tell when mass layoffs are a result of short-term profit instead of long-term loss?
Because I have half a brain that can think, notice patterns and trends
Please, share just a bit of your wisdom and answer the fricking question, then.
companies across the whole industry doesn't just fire people when their games are done for shit and giggles, they do it because it makes the books look better and thus the profits are better, hench short term profit, if they were thinking long term they'd keep the people they know work well together because that has proven to speed up development of games, FF7 Rebirth is a prime example of being made faster because the team knew each other and knew they have job security.
You're just using circular logic. Mass layoffs are happening because of short-term profit. How do you know? Because if it wasn't short-term profit, then mass layoffs wouldn't be happening. This is fallacious and doesn't actually answer the question of how to distinguish mass layoffs as the result of short-term profit or long-term loss.
American companies don't actually think in the long-term, it's all short term to please their stock holders, been like that for ages
You’re right anon, everyone is stupid except you
Companies certainly are moronic
Depends on who runs the company. A company run by white or east asian people more than likely would think about long-term profit - israeli ones don't, and they're now seeing the consequences. Only thing left is to deny them a bailout at all costs.
And are they not? Would you say these companies are closer to bankruptcy now than not?
>economic system is cruel because it want high efficiency.
Not at all. The prisoner's dilemma says the safest move is to betray your compatriot, but it also says the most profitable move is to trust them. This is the secret to the success of white posterity - they are more highly trusting. But what happens when a highly trusting person encounters a conman? What happens when they encounter a race of conmen? This is why those conmen were expelled from 108+ countries.
Do you see this soft landing different from previous?
https://www.networkworld.com/article/710198/wireless-biggest-tech-industry-layoffs-of-2012.html
Research in Motion, reeling as its BlackBerry takes a beating from the Apple iPhone and assorted Android smartphones, is expected to lay off anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 employees to cut costs and turn around its financial fortunes. While the exact number of layoffs from RIM’s 16,000-plus staff remains to be confirmed, the restructured company appears headed for a high rank on this year’s list of tech industry layoffs.
https://www.cio.com/article/218133/9-bloodiest-tech-giants-layoffs-of-2016.html#:~:text=While%20Intel%20and%20Symantec%20did,per%20industry%20reports%20this%20year.
While Intel and Symantec did cuts to the tune of 10 percent and 11 percent of its workforce this year. VMware announced 5 percent of its employee strength in January this year. Microsoft has laid off around 5000 employees as per industry reports this year.
Please explain in your own words how this is relevant.
economic cycle works like clock. we are in recession and companies just reduce workforce as they did 4 years ago.
Whens the last time the states had a boom? half the country never left 2008.
How convenient. So what you seem to be implying is that companies are just black boxes and we can never tell when they're actually going through long-term loss or are closer to bankruptcy than not, but at the same time we know just enough to always know - it's short-term profit. How very convenient.
>How convenient.
No. it is not. it is based on how companies issue debt. For Fed, they controls short-term interest rate as 2Y. to control economic while most companies only issue 4-5y debts for their business. this is why we can see 4y as a cycle.
While the specific details of economic institutions are somewhat important, they can also be highly arbitrary. I believe the essence of economics is behavior. Question, then - what do you have to lose if more people believe that certain game companies are getting closer to bankruptcy than not?
American companies that do mass layoffs from long term loss, go into bankruptcy
You know companies report profits every 3 months right? Firing people right before a game comes out doesn’t do shit to juice the numbers, all those salaries have been on the books the entire development cycle, if anything paying a bunch of severance all at once makes launch profits look worse
Layoffs are long-term savings being prioritized over short-term costs, there’s a reason that stockholders like it when companies make cuts
>Make bad game
>Get fired
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0000000000000W
but joe told us there is labor shortage and we will join the union with joe to fight against greedy CEO.
>some troony got fired
There's a war in europe, israelites are creating massive new waves of "refugees" in the middle east and buying food has increased 200% in price over a year.
>You did this.
I fricking wish so I could feel accomplished.
Yes, we did. That was the plan. Thank you for the credit.
>and it's all chuds fault
how should we celebrate? these studios should die and make room for a market of games like helldivers and EDF
Learn how to build a house
>10k leftists lose their jobs
Can we bring that number up?
feeling really good about getting a honest regular trade job instead of going into the tech industry right now
I feel conflicted about this. On one hand I do hope those affected will be able to bounce back, but at the same time it feels like this was long overdue for the industry even if the driving factors behind it aren't the ones we as consumers would expect/hope they would be.
Honestly I just want them to make good games with reasonable budgets again.
Once a developer ships a game, employees need to understand that their job is complete and to start looking for a new job.
>once they ship the game
no with the state of the industy they have to have a job lined up long before they ship it
TOTAL AAA DEATH
The video game industry is being purified. People should rejoice on this kind of news.
It’s not a collapse. It’s a just a recession. Every large company is pulling this shit to cut on costs. My c**t of a bank halved our department 4 months ago because we were over capacity, and now they recently decreases our car loan interest rates which has placed us under capacity, and their solution is to make us all work unpaid over time until the extra work load subsides.
true it's not a collapse, this is a feature of capitalism
>their solution is to make us all work unpaid over time until the extra work load subsides
This reminds me of a job i had when i was younger where the boss fired some of the workers and the remaining people had to work 12 hours shifts instead of 8 hour shifts without getting extra pay(be came a two shifts day instead of a 3 shifts day), frick that shit i quit after 2 months.
Pretty savage to liken game devs being laid off to demons getting exterminated ngl
>moron devs who obnoxiously shoved Debra Wilson in to every game are all getting fired
>Debra Wilson doin' just fine
no refunds, suckas
Mizusawa Kei mogs her
The biggest tragedy is that Bioware is still alive (as alive as a zombie can be).
Bioware is not long for this world, they're probably only getting the Dragon Age game released before getting shutdown, though I wouldn't be surprised if EA kills it before that
I feel like rick grimes in the pilot of TWD when he shoots that fricked up zombie with no legs when I think of bioware
>I'm sorry this happened to you
>Games all suck shit save for a few exceptions every year for the last 10 years
>Shocked when everyone's starting to lose their jobs
wowoowowowoowow
There's still a lot more to go.
i'm so happy bros
i've been hoping for the games industry to crash for a decade now
all this wokeslop can burn in hell
we need to start from scratch, only catering to actual customers and not political activists
You do realize that means working on a game to get yourself in the market while being unpaid for it till it releases, right? Working 9 to 5 to keep your home and be able to eat and then coming home, working on the game and then going to bed until you either release something good that people like or flop hard. And you gotta build a team that can accept such a hail mary approach too, especially for a 3D game. It's not that easy since people still want to just suckle corporate teat for investorbux instead of actually work their ass off like in the old days basically doing 2 jobs.
no
all wokeslop needs to die
No shit, but you need to actually read what I said moron.
Not him but you're just appealing to the status quo. Because we're not currently living in a world where people are willing to "work their ass off basically doing 2 jobs", you conclude that people aren't willing to. Maybe you should be more optimistic.
Where are the people willing to hail mary a proper game project that won't directly make them a cent till it releases then?
If they're as busy as you want them to be, maybe they're too busy to be posting on an anonymous imageboard. Have you ever heard of the concept of a silent majority? Just try being more optimistic, what do you have to lose?
Personally I am trying to find these people who are aware of this situation for my own project cause I am fricking tired of the western gaming industry atm.
The gods decided to punish Sisyphus for continually tricking them by making him roll a boulder up a hill for eternity. To make him miserable. All Sisyphus has to do to trick the gods one more time is to be happy pushing the boulder, instead.
?
In other words, good luck.
Yeah no. The bloated AAA studios are the ones eating shit. AA studios are doing just fine. People have been saying for years that the AAA model is unsustainable. They were right. The fact that AAA companies never seemed to consider that the growth they saw during Covid also didn't help.
>that the growth they saw during Covid* also didn't help.
*was an anomaly
Are there layoffs at id Software? I care about them.
Nope, id is small enough to get affected, but Bethesda after opening a ton of studios like Blizzard?
i see them reduced back to Maryland and maybe Texas
nothing of value was lost
Tech trannies got rugpulled:
>learn to code! We need more programmers! We'll pay you six figures starting!
Ok, sounds great sign me up!
>jk lol, enjoy working at Starbucks lmao
they can lrn2coal
Bidenomics isn't real.
Yes it is, putinbot. The economy is thriving.
Lmao Bideinflation and interest rates are at an all time high, of course woke grants are getting axed first
i hope this doesn't mean a ton of these buttholes are going to start flooding steam with their shitty solo pixelshit games 10 years late.
most game devs leave the industry after working in the AAA industry and get better tech jobs because working condition in game development is just that shit
Nah, the standard for indie games has risen in the past 10 years. You see far less fartsniffing soibeards screeching about how *their* 2D pixel platformer with metaphors for depression are the next big thing.
They won't anon. They'd see negative reviews then an hero after realising they're talentless and only got in for being a dysgenic freak
Layoffs just mean more outsourced and AI generated slop. I don't care personally, I don't play nu-vidya (2013+)
MORE
gaming will be the worst it's ever been to normalgays, they might unironically leave,
we'll see a renaissance age of autist just making games without battle passes and all other israeli shit
>renaissance age
>when iPad kids are a thing
not gonna happen, get ready for more roblox
america has gathered some of the brightest minds of this world in last 100 years to it's cause,
to balance that the overall population is the dumbest in the world
It's not just vidya tbh, but I'm glad vidya is this affected.
why do you care?
1. not your job
2. they're shit games
the only answer would be "shit taste"
>it's another "Europe is one country with monolithic policies" episode
Why are amerimutts so embarrassingly stupid?
Imagine how many indie studios will be born from this.
How do indie studios get money from this situation? IPO?
They wagecuck it and work on the game when they get home until the game is able to be released, like in the old days.
youre welcome
yes, yes, im the CEO of SNOY and I personally ordered all the layoffs and studio closures ;^)
>work in road construction in a machine operator position
>little to no competition in our field in the area
>company owned by same family for generations, less than 250 employees
>ai cant do my job
feels good watching all these no-talent "devs" and diversity hires getting fired knowing my job is safe
Haha poor
Crashing this industry...
With no survivors!
WE ARE HEALING GUYS
Why don't they just make good games?
Good games runs in opposite of the "message" the hooknose corpo scum want shoveled out because they want their zogged golems NOW NOW NOW and nobody is drinking the social engineering koolaid.
It's a little more complicated, games take too long to make now, which means more hours in development, to say nothing of advertising so your game doesn't get drowned out by the 1000 other things happening right now. A game has to sell astronomically well to offset this, "good game" doesn't cut it.
That's white supremacy!
THE NIGHTMARE IS FINALLY OVER! AND NOW IM WIDE AWAKE! NOW IM WIDE AWAKE!
The crash has come? Shareholders and diversity quotas frick off and give the reigns back to the creative types who actually care? Games become less widespread/popular due to less money and go back to being niche, tight community? A new age renaissance for gaming?
You promise?
>doubles down on mtx to recup their loss
sorry anon, sunk cost fallacy
Cool
It makes more sense when you realize who's being laid off DEI,Directors,Producers,etc basically the suits that leftwingers swear they want out of game studios lol
>hire a bunch of DEI morons
>DEI morons start to complain and talk about unionizing. Some actually form a union.
The layoffs were inevitable.
I remember a lot of games recently that had a black female main character or a fat black old woman side character. I guess they weren't very profitable.
>Tech falling
How's that computer engineer major doing now, chuds?
See
Pretty nice, I work fully remote and managed to get myself into a lead architect role. Pretty comfy overall.
This isnt just gaming though EVERYWHERE is pulling this emergency clean house shit at the same time i wonder if they got tipped off by something
this just means gaming gets EVEN MORE focused on profits and we'll get more COD FIFA GTA slop
>covid
>FREE MONEY
>hire shit loads of people
>VIDEO GAMES ARE THE NEXT BIG MEDIA
>massive investor uptick
>BIGGER THAN ALL OTHER MEDIAS COMBINED!
>boards of big game companies taken over by people uninterested in the market, only returns
>ESG MONEY NEVER STOPS BABY
>Epic Games will PAY you big to put games in their store
>Epic games fails
>80 BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY ACQUISITION BY MICROSOFT!!!
>free money stops, investing slows down, markets all shaky
>esg shows loss of profit and thus becomes Fick's 'well i tried' project, funding to ensure no loss risk dries up
>microsofts purchases looking like they wont really pan out
>biggest companies lead by goons pump out unbuyable shit that does nothing but drain cash
Wow I just can't believe they're having layoffs.
>Trump(Putin) drones in full force in this thread
kek
(Putin)
Leftist Qanon
>the dumb vatnik calls me leftist
WEW lad!
who cares who you are
I'm sorry for supporting good vidya I guess?
I take full responsibility, send some (real) nerd girl to my place and I'll take care of her now that she's been laid off.
I bought Dungeon Travelers a week ago.
I love supporting good games with cute characters.
Its a shame western devs stopped making games.
>Condom
Gif ruined
DIE WOKE SCUM I WILL DEFILE YOUR DEAD FRICKING CORPSES
good
let the west die
OH NYOOOO NOT THE HECKIN' DEVELOPERINOS
Omg that cope is so great
saved
would be funny if somebody responded "Skill issue"
I think what you´re trying to say is "Thank you."
John Romero is from a generation that doesn't exist anymore:
>apply to company
>company instantly recognizes talent when they see it
>get hired
If someone with Romero's skill and personality tried to get a job today he wouldn't get a single call back.
Modern Romero is a giant gigahomosexual. I'm not even joking when I say that 90's Romero would've bullied the living shit out of modern Romero.
Yeah, but point still stands. No way 90s Romero, 90s Carmack, or anyone else that was talented but weird, can get a job in video games now. If even granted an interview HR would think you're going to shoot the place up and never return your calls.
90s romero was BASED, the lame excuse of a romero we have today barely holds a candle
They hired too many people during the covid tech boom and now that's over they're just throwing out people to reassure investors they wont lose money
It's bad for the people fired but in the big picture it's business as usual
You guys do realize that it's the shit ones getting booted, right? This is good.
>it's the shit ones getting booted, right
Nope. A few divercity hires may get fired but the bulk is normal people.
I said shit devs, I didn't speak about normal or non-normal people.
t. I didn't get fired
Oh no ESG sisters(male), how do we pay rent now?!
I am racist schizo and I have never known defeat.
>covid layoffs
Ba dum tisk!
woke cope
It's a hilarious cope. I'm seeing it many other sectors in the entertainment and tech industry. You love to see it. Vice media shutdown last week. Been waiting for that one for years.... This just gets better by the day.
I love how people are blaming covid when there are people with 15 years of experience being fired along with folks who were hired in 2020. After a decade I'm finally seeing some retribution. What a wonderful year.
>coof comes and everyone stays home
>this makes vidya companies grow
>hire a bunch of useless code monkeys and human resources prostitutes to keep up with increased sales
>maket deflates since now everyone is back to their wages
>lay off the useless code monkeys and HR prostitutes
>WTF BROS THE MARKET IS CRASHING
more like
>make shit games
>get fired
>listening to a counter strike streamer
yikes
Rookie numbers.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/cloud-imperium-reportedly-hit-with-layoffs
STAR CITIZEN IS DEAD!
>over-hire during covid
>continue to make shit games
>surprised that there are layoffs happening now
>The gaming/tech industries are officially over.
Industry-wide mass layoffs aren't anything new. It's just tech this time so you're paying more attention to it.
This kinda thing just happens in economies.
>tech companies hire thousands of redundant women/minorities for exorbitant wages because they need to meet ESG goals and also show that they are constantly "growing" by hiring or else Shekelberg from Blackwiener and Goldwasserstein from Vanguard will pull their investment of 30 silvers
>those strong independent women of color start posting tiktoks about how they don't have to do any work for their $300k a year
>economy turns to shit because dementor daddy Bidon needs to send all your tax money to Israel and Ukraine (read: Raytheon and Locksneed Martin)
>suddenly companies that aren't manufacturing something that can blow up Palestinian children have to jettison the ballast to survive
>all the useless hangers-on get tossed out of tech and ESG dies because investors are scared they might not see return on shekels and maybe Shekelberg and Goldwasserstein might have tricked them
It's only going to get worse for AAA studios. Last year, in many gaming places, they said they knew 2024 was going to be the year of the studio closures as 2023 was the year of layoffs.
A golden age is upon us
Consequences of not being able to borrow millions of dollars at virtually zero percent interest anymore.
>ruin games with woke propaganda
>diversity hires manning the helm
>wonder why industry is collapsing
I am loving seeing all these people from the past decade finally getting their comeuppance. This should have happened in 2010. All these years later and I finally get to see the people I've loathed for so long suffer. Feels so good.
Hopefully something better comes out of the ashes at this point
I have my fingers crossed. But I've been playing indie and AA games for awhile now so as I see it, things can only get better from here. The weak will fail, the skilled will land on their feet and continue running.
LET's GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I really wonder everytime I see these headlines, are these actual tech jobs or just people who work at over bloated tech companies doing worthless shit? I have a decent tech resume at best and I'm still getting recruiters calling me every week.
What do you think? Obviously it's the useless and shitty ones to cut costs, LinkedIn headhunters are going hard at the momebt
I really hate most jobs near me as hospital related instead of tech related.
Why should I care? Why is this any different then layoffs in other industries?
It isn't, the people on this site are just absolute chicken shit babies and live within a worldview where the sky is perpetually falling.
But everyone is celebrating.
Nobody here actually cares anyway, let alone buy games.
We want AAA layoffs to make more room for smaller studios to flourish. Are you new?
Who's going to make sure the women's chins are square enough now?
>STOP CHEERING GOYIM
Well i guess if they say I shouldnt.
Nah frick that this is glorious.
based
Why are leftists so obsessed with people having jobs? It’s like they think being employed at a cushy job is a human right. We need fewer people working on games.
Lol I almost earnestly responded to this post. Decent bait.
many such cases
AI is the only explanation
i hope everyone is miserable as me one day
Are they trying to kill the game industry before WW3?
this wont impact the gaming industry as much as you think. Most of the people fired run off a 4 hour work day and spend most of their work hours playing pickleball, and the rest in pointless meetings with middle managers.
This. Not to mention that all of these firings are literally just in response to the hiring spree during the pandemic/lockdowns. These firings are just things going back to normal pre-2020 numbers.
Faster goddammit where's my fricking crash
>bunch of games companies that release flop after flop go under
>bunch of tech companies that were never profitable with 0% interest go under
>this means all tech is over
No. My company is hiring like crazy for engineers on my team.
legitimately nobody with a functioning brain cares, only normies with no ability to think cares at all. easily half of these people without even thinking about it don't deserve jobs, provide nothing of value, actively hate the consumers - hence desperately trying to appeal to a 'new' audience that doesn't exist, and are either dogshit at the job they're employed for or their job position is not a necessity and is some horseshit fake job that contributes nothing
get rid of them all
get rid of more of them
games will not get worse, games CANNOT get worse, there is nowhere to go but up
>work in animation
>client is rushing the project because there are rumblings of another Hollywood strike
Lmao, I hope Hollywood is next.
what project are you on? is it for netflix?
Not Netflix, but a Big 3 streaming service nonetheless.
Why would animation get affected by it? Can't you just replace the voice actors?
with ai I mean
I'm doing my part. I only buy hentai games and I pirate everything else. No, I'm not upgrading my PC which I built in 2012.
Damn bro, I mean. I agree with you in principle. But 2012??
Who are the people being fired? It's not the programmer, because the company could not continue making games without him. It's not the graphics designer, because the company could not continue making games without him.
It's the non-essentially people who are being fired. It's the gender studies girl who adds nothing to the company, and only drags them down by ensuring that new content is woke. It's the DEI hire who parasitically takes from the company while working to ensure racial justice or some other nonsense. It's the woke weirdo writer who inserts LGBT content into the story.
Good riddance to the lot of them! Learn to code, arseholes! Non-essentials can GTFO!
No, it's mostly customer service type roles. Have fun waiting on hold for an extra hour per call.
LOL! I don't play games that require me to call customer service in the first place. Filthy plebs!
It's really simple. Companies who limit their staff to core essential roles can produce cheap, good, and profitable games at a fraction of the cost, as long as they have not been poisoned by woke ideology. Palworld is a prime example of this.
The companies that are going under here are mostly big bloated AAA game producers with huge budgets, filled with non-essential personnel. Cut out the DEI hires. Cut out the gender weirdos. Cut out the massive PR team. That's the key to success. That's how you make good games on the cheap.
The firing of non-essentials is a necessary correction.
>woke ideology
Onions more aptly describes them, not us.
To be fair, both sides are the same incels, just the other guys tr00n out first.
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When your company looks like this, it's no wonder
If these are the white guys getting fired I am perfectly happy with it.
It's usually the dead weight DEI hires that are the first to go, usually those doing any real kind of game development are safe for at least a little while
This. Also, when those doing real game development start to get fired, it usually means the company is about to go bankrupt anyway. Companies that intend to continue producing games rarely ever touch essential staff.
We're going back in time bros! Hold on to something! The wind is picking up!