The games industry sucks

What even is the point? The stock market is just a ticking time bomb and when it fucks up, somehow people lose their job and their house and anything else thats sustained by income. This makes sense how??? How is the stock market not considered a crime against humanity? It doesn't benefit anyone except maybe rich people but rich people are already rich so who tf cares.

I'm sure there are. But, at least in the states, many tech people are also right-leaning libertarians. Co-ops are unpopular with them because they want to be the kings in the castle, not equal with their peers.

The point is to make as much money as possible while paying the workers as little as is possible. Same as it ever was.

They could always pay us more, but we’re just supposed to be happy they aren’t sending the Pinkertons to shoot our women and children anymore, I guess?

She has a great deal of respect for the devs/writers/artists/workers. Its the system itself and the execs that are fucked. The toxic atmosphere they cultivate keeps churn high so profits stay high. They build a bad place that attracts bad people that stay and good people that should leave, and they dont give a fuck as long as "number goes up."

Give the video a watch. It's a very candid take from someone immersed in all the layers of the field.

This I do not understand. I am sure a ton of people pre-ordered Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty even though we know how it launched. (And I love the game, I followed all the news, but even I could wait for a fckin day to wait for the reviews)

For me, the visuals are a huge part of gaming, i simply don't like the style of most indie games go for. The "artsy" stylistic graphics, the 80's inspired pixel graphics, the simple polygon graphic is all indie games seem to choose between these days, and in personally hate looking at it.

Larian is an unusual case. It's indie but it's huge. They aren't funded by or marketing through a bigger publishing company so IMO that's still indie. But they're hundreds of people so not really small, and BG3 can by all means be considered a AAA game because the difference in quality and scale is indistinguishable from AAA published games.

Id say BG3 probably falls into "III" or perhaps AA if you count Larian as such, they certainly didnt have a large marketing campaign on par with AAA.

AAA are games from large publishers that spend millions on development and marketing, so such as EA, Ubi, ActiBlizz, CDPR, Playstation, Xbox etc

That's really not at all what happened. Gaming development goes back to the 70s and gamerbro culture has almost nothing to do with history of game dev, that's a more recent thing that happened with DOTA and the like.

I couldn't agree more. I'm a software engineer at a FAANG company, and the split is very apparent. There are either people that would love to see a union (but know their employer would happily fire 100k+ people for even trying it), alongside people that believe unions are the devil. There was a shift in the last 12 months due to the mass layoffs and the nature of how someone with a decade or more of loyal work can be locked out and fired immediately without so much as a "goodbye", but there is still a huge number of people that view tech as a "survival of the fittest" thing. I work with some people that even love the idea of URA and the "weakest" people in the team losing their jobs.

Game dev is an interesting thing, though. For decades now, even smaller companies (at the time) like Rare were built from the mentality that you cannot just work 50 hours a week to make a good game, or that once a release is complete, you move on to your next gig. That culture has existed throughout corporate, not just in tech, which is why I'm surprised that there hasn't been a true effort towards unionising industry-wide. Hell, I would've thought that the Activision issues from a while ago would have spurred something too.

I'm British, so I don't have a great understanding of French law, but do they have unions in the same way, or are they similar to works councils in Germany? I know French law is protective of workers, so wonder if it's as divisive as it would be in the West.

I'm not showing contempt or lack of empathy. I'm showing that people on here don't care about other workers other than the ones that work in computer-related industries, which salary-wise can afford to be laid off. Cry me a river. Your nasty response shows me that you have no compassion for workers in other industries or professions that are, on average, overqualified and make less money when they are employed. You're the type of person that got an F in High School English class and just like video games. Nothing intelligent here in your comment. I made a real argument about things how they are about the job market. Your response is weak and not convincing me. Most of all because science is always favored over humanities in the world at large. You don't care about anything else except the industry you are into. You're into the video game industry. You only care about the workers who were laid off in the video game industry. Other workers that were laid off, it seems to me, don't matter to you. You're attentive to this news story not because of workers, but because of video games.

I didn't have it worse or better. I just think you only care about video games, not workers.