Publishers Are Getting What They F*cking Deserve | Asmongold Reacts

[@oguz091]

I actually hope these people do more bad games, so they will lose money and possibly disappear from the gaming industry.

[@moglet12345]

Don't worry, they will use your taxes as they did with Dustbin Go feminism go

[@sadkat9162]

@@moglet12345 yep this is what people dont understand :D and if you dont pay taxes they still take your money away by making govt print money and devalue your dollar and then blackrock pays these dollars to ESG studios :DD

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@moglet12345 it's still money the govt could be pocketing rather than losing them votes.

[@sinafey7030]

tbh, same, i hope more and more ppl will become aware of the brainrot thats plagueing the social areas of our lifes, becouse, lets be frank here - this isnt limited to game development alone, and the more money corporations like blackrock and vanguard lose becouse of trying to force their way of thinking, the faster they will fall down and burn.

[@AszkalonOfVerra]

It's a good Day for

[@TurtleChad1]

This is why eastern game devs are winning right now. They're making games people want to play.

[@Penquin_0]

Warhammer 40k😂

[@1birdwatcherr]

How is everything this account comments the most soy manufactured conservative talking point

[@PowerfulRift]

Have you seen the news from CD Projekt Red recently? The company wants to go DEI (Woke).

[@6StimuL84]

And indies like Stardew Valley, Undertale, Kenshi, etc.....

[@flyingcheesecake3725]

@@1birdwatcherri heard your super pro left concord just died

[@Kiryu_Kazuma01]

Oh well. Stop making games people don’t want.

[@stayhungry1503]

they cant, they are ordered by blackrock

[@LuisSierra42]

Don't you guys have phones?

[@moglet12345]

DEI and feminists don't agree with you buddy

[@wumpfroot]

Wise words, Kiryu-san

[@reichbunny713]

They will continue to make garbage for the sole purpose of demoralizing the original target audience

[@panakap2186]

1. Follow woke guidelines 2. Add corporate "creativity" 3. Antagonize your potential customers 3. Count losses 4. Blame people who don't care 0. Profits?

[@rylenstuffsv2]

0. Meager amount of profit or none at all

[@gogglebottle]

"This game isn't for you!" or "X was never for [ethnicity] [gender]!". And then later blame said targeted group of being anything-ists

[@anshuman6923]

You forgot number 5: Be a mediocre game Many of these games, from a gaming aspect, just aren't good, period.

[@cinystarr4657]

@@anshuman6923 For starters, they need to actually *play* older/pop games to see what makes them so good & then copy the recipe while adding a few unique things in. Their main problem is very poor work ethic. Also demanding more women?? Why that group?? Are they necessary for some aspect of the game to be better?

[@panakap2186]

@@anshuman6923 i was meaning that in "corporate creativity" I mean games from big studios feel generic, repetitive and boring. In most cases they bring nothing new to the genre

[@watchvidslaterokay]

"Failure to hire women", failure to be sexist by doing DEI affirmative action hires is not an issue

[@danieln6700]

Yea saying that just means their products probably won't interest alot of ppl as they are more worried about dei bs then making a game that will make money

[@davidking2011]

Who wrote that? Lonely men? "Please hire more girls."

[@hashvendetta7226]

​@@davidking2011definitely the opposite. This article coming out and saying that makes me think they didn't wanna pay the sweetbaby extortion fee, so they got dragged immediately with sexism accusations

[@ge2719]

@@davidking2011 but even women in these organisations admit men just don't talk to them except for the bare minimum required to do their job, then they avoid them. They don't want to risk getting fired or sued, or worse. so they just don't talk to female employees.

[@noobicorn_gamer]

Justice for fucking Henry Caville. He’s my new DiCaprio after he was fucked around the industry for so much and the fact that he’s pretty humble and easy going about it just hurts it even more.

[@denkerbosu3551]

Tbh, after the female custode implied in his show, I'm just disappointed.

[@HaloWolf102]

He dropped out of Witcher 3 as soon as the producer kept messing with Geralts character. Based.

[@Rhyhmx]

@@denkerbosu3551 He's also disappointed I can assure you, I've seen interviews and he tried negotiating to at least include a different faction where its lore accurate to have females but they turned him down because apparently they always have armor and helmets on and so it wouldnt be a good representation because 50% of the cast has to be female or some bs like that and then they gave him % of how many minorities. Idk its sad he didnt get the freedom he hoped for and that's why its gonna be most likely ass if it ever comes out (studio pushed him back in favor of another wh release) because he has no power to bring his passion to reality which alings to pretty much all of us.

[@IdocarebutIdont]

And all because of the same Activists / Feminists that are plaguing the entire entertainment indusrty right now.

[@revansdisciple4636]

​@dedede121-k3lYour curse means nothing to me. I've been to Limbo and I'm ready to go back. So send your curse, I dare you. Edit: I'm still kicking!!

[@NeonEclipse910]

As soon as they said "More women representation." I knew EXACTLY what type of people they are, and its not the type that understands what makes video games that can sell.

[@Dice-Z]

I've heard that from people that have little to nothing to do with woke stuff. They just want women in their workplace because they see dudes 24/7 of their life and nothing else. It's a terrible mindset imo, especially when advocating hiring women on gender instead of merit just for the sake of mingling.

[@dalferu]

Eastern companies just make games with 90% of the cast being hot anime women without saying anything about representation :D

[@xd3athclawx554]

@@dalferu That's the type of representation people like

[@aliceyingshan2725]

When they say this I have no idea which women they ask. Most female gamers I know personally hate what these people are doing and actually prefer previous era games to current era ones.

[@Ahmed-ku9yh]

​​@@aliceyingshan2725they are not doing it to please women that's why even 'gamer girls' aren't enjoying those games They're doing it to push an agenda, games sell by the millions and many people get attached to them emotionally, so they think what a good opportunity to inject some ideologies into the minds of millions of gamers. People behind this crap like blackrock don't care if some games and studios die in the process of pushing this garbage, blackrock will make their money back and some from their endless investments, but they succeeded in pushing this garbage ideology into the world

[@khatdubell]

"Concord is a risk that was taken that failed" WRONG. Concord was an attempt to play it safe that failed. Its a cash grab clone of what was the most popular shooter at the time the game went into development, trying to chase the latest trend of esports style of games, with the play it safe "diverse" cast of characters with "body types" and androgynous designs so as not to offend anyone. Had concord came out 4 to 5 years ago, it probably wouldn't have been such a massive flop. It _might_ have even been popular considering the product it was copying was embroiled in scandal at the time.

[@SWOTHDRA]

Truth

[@chadwolf3840]

Nah bro, those “heroes” in concord would’ve never sold.

[@backonlazer791]

I mostly agree except that there's no such thing as "playing it safe" in game development. Each project is a risk and while some can be safer bets than others, for example providing a sequel to a popular IP rather than trying to break through with a new one, there is always financial risk involved. The size of the risk really comes down to the budget of the project and Concord had a relatively high budget so it was relatively high risk, but you're still right about it being an attempt to pander to players with things that worked some years back but are now oversaturated in the market. Not only that but trying to sell the game for $40 when there are arguably better f2p options out there was a sure-fire way to kill any chance the game had.

[@thenonexistinghero]

"failure to protect and hire women" Wut?

[@andrew8168]

​@@thenonexistinghero it's a political complaint. You can't have "hiring people who can't do the job" and "we are overworked by management" compliants at once.

[@TheStupidDetectiv]

As a roofer, I often wonder why my boss doesn't hire more women. Maybe he is sexist.

[@BlazingOwnager]

Roofing would be much better if they waved experience, training, etc. and hired people with diverse voices to tell their stories!

[@Cahnisama]

That must be a roof situation

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

They can break a glass ceiling, but not a ceramic roof.

[@erwins_arm]

Maybe cuz they don't exist Lol

[@GangstaBilbo]

As an intelligent person, I often suggest roofers leave the thinking to people who know how to do it.

[@beastlygamers7779]

I hate the argument “failure to hire women”. Not as many women are in the industry, and you aren’t supposed to hire based on race, gender, etc. you’re hired based on ability. Plain and simple

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

The guy narrating the video is a woke shill, that's why he never addresses the uglification of women in games, the overt feminist messaging, and the whole gender fluid bs inserted into games. He avoids these topics constantly and just makes vague remarks to "the game doesn't look good" or "corporate greed" etc without specifying what he means.

[@TA-xj3xz]

Imagine CEOs who have not the slightest clue or any idea what their product even is. They never tried it, never even looked at it, they even often despise it. This isn't the case for car industries, hollywood, finance, sports or any field. But in gaming, it is 99% of CEOs.

[@TheDiner50]

Look at Apple. EVERY device and service Apple makes fits PERFECTLY for the CEO and higher staff. BMW, Porceh,Tesla etc etc etc. Even Toyota and Nintendo... France? Cirtoen, Peugeot etc etc. Espresso machines? Etc, etc. DOOM. Sims 1-3. GTA 1-4. Even Fornite and such being Tencent etc etc. Unity Engine? Adobe Crash.exe? ALL of EA games nowadays. Like even look at Valve, making games that are not even making it to the market. Yet with HL:Alyx there was the VR headset push that made the game happen. Look at ANUS.. I mean Asus with the Steam Deck knock off with a broken SD-card reader. Tech companies like Gigabyte or whatever can sure make up a 'Gamer' product and sell it with 'Gamer' prices. RGB whatever lights. But movies and games? The way CEO's and everyone pushes the company around makes or brakes the art. Video games, Movies, Books... It is ART. FUN. When actual gamers made games? Actual artist with a passion AND control to make it reality? We get things like Half Life and DOOM 1. Or say a little old number like GTA4 or heck 5. But now we got AI. So forget art. I'AM A ROBOT: BEEP, BOOP. Spam comments and whatever. Make the agenda heard and so game developers make games that no one actually wants. Electronic Arts. It's in the game. Not anymore! Do not even hear about EA games nowadays. They are so dead to the market. It is almost like EA makes money out of gamblers or something being quite in the background. Addicts or something? Hum... Maybe surprise mechanics are that good after all.

[@JeremyBell]

@@TheDiner50 No one is stopping you from opening a game company and making it about "art" or "fun" or whatever you call it. Good luck attracting talent and keeping them with "passion" though. It's just how the world and humans work. I don't buy any EA or Ubisoft games but they make like 10 billion dollars a year off those games. So... a lot of freaking people are buying those products.

[@aerostrafe1075]

@@JeremyBell Why do people type the "If you dont like billion dollar corps then just open up your own"? It has the same energy of telling someone who wants to solve world hunger with "just make more food". Why make yourself look like you have the thinking comprehension of a child still in elementary? Thats what my 7 year old niece would say if I said I dont like my job some days around her. "Just go get another job uncle. Its easy!" Bless her heart. Bless yours too because holy you need it.

[@moviesynopsis001]

@@JeremyBell How can he just start a video game company without any initial capital? Look at the history of a lot of these CEOs, they usually come from rich families who could provide them with a good college background and networking connections. The lack of passion is 100 percent causing the crash of most of these companies, and their stock prices have been showing it.

[@mistersmith2549]

@@JeremyBell Larian Studios did it. It's not impossible.

[@sparhawk1228]

Spiders "failure to hire women". Like what 😂😂 The only thing that should matter is qualifications/talent. Not gender hiring practices. Woke devs much

[@uscg1381]

Sounds like the employees are more worried about being woke than producing a good video game. AND. THIS. IS. WHAT. YOU. GET.

[@viniciusaugusto8050]

Exactly. And on top of that, they want us to applaud, praise and give them money. Otherwise we are called names. Delusion at its best 😂😂

[@Pheonix8877]

They lack such self awareness about it too, it’s peak arrogance

[@CD-vb9fi]

The definition of "reap what you sow".

[@OutLanderUSN]

Same thing with the journos. They're trying to peddle nonsense that the vast majority (read: sane) of people do not want and by and large don't care about.

[@777arksMa77_RGM]

hey what bird was in 29:45?

[@JustAPuffin]

I notice a correlation between whiny devs and bad games. People think that the toxic environment creates bad games, but I tend to think whiny workers are bad workers.

[@rodneyabrett]

100%.. Compare Steel Rising from Spiders to Lies Of P from Round8/Neowiz. I was hyped about both games(similar themes and story idea) but Lies of P ended up being the way better game. More polished as well. Steel Rising had potential but was plagued with the usual Spiders jank that was in Greedfall.

[@Ralathar44]

I work video game QA and most people who work in the tech industry, not just the games industry, are extremely spoiled and entitled. They don't know what actual bad jobs are like. It's not to say that game devs don't do some BS sometimes, they do, but a huge amount of dev complaints are stupid and spoiled and it only makes it harder for the rest of us to fight the real problems if and when they happen.

[@amotriuc]

@@Ralathar44 Well fact is if game QA conditions are not great they still can find bugs but it will be just slower you can solve it by putting more QA people. If game dev conditions are bad no matter how many devs you put on the game it will be shit ... So you can't compare. As well what QA people do not complain about working conditions? I will burst your bubble they do. Plus I am not sure why you defend corporations and not the devs? Corporations did f*ck game devs for years, I did left game dev since it suck much more than other dev work. Corporation can't expect to run only on gave dev enthusiasm forever.

[@Ralathar44]

@@amotriuc More QA has severely diminishing returns thanks to growing overhead and dilution of talent and responsibility. In fact this is true of many roles, not just QA. Also conditions being bad =/= bad game. Look at Fallout New Vegas. Truth is it depends on your team. Some teams excel when challenged, others perform poorly. Similarly some teams work poorly in a lax environment and some teams work well. There is no one perfect development environment to make the best game. That kind of thinking is truly ill informed and idealistic. Also, im QA, my job is not to defend anyone. It's to call it as I see it be it in regards to dev, employee, or nobody. You're talking about an advocate or someone with an agenda. if I want to look at something properly I need to have as little agenda as possible. My job as QA is to do a good job as QA. Not to defend either company or employee. And as far as history of wrong doing corporations and employees are equally guilty. Neither side is innocent. I'll say that to you, anyone here on youtube, my coworkers, my boss, my CEO. As QA, more than anyone else, its my job not to play sides and not to gaslight or be gaslit. Because the moment I do that, I lose my ability to QA effectively. If I did that I'd just start gamifying the system for my own benefit instead of properly doing my job as QA.

[@cinystarr4657]

Ya, poor work ethic is at the base of this. Game companies are going to have to screen potential employees for the wok thing and keep them out if they care anything at all about making money

[@abdulalshibly3930]

It's baffling on how a simple thing that medieval merchants understood, which is supply and demand is now being ignored by people who can learn 100x more knowledge than any merchant or scholar from years ago with the click of a button

[@Dice-Z]

Medieval? People knew that before even ancient greece.

[@oscardalmatiner8724]

Bold of you to assume they are learning useful knowledge at colleges

[@arandompasserby7940]

It doesn't surprise me. That $6k-per-stay "Star Wars" hotel that Disney built literally defies every single principle of how a theme park hotel should operate, but it was still made. The best description I heard of the Star Wars hotel was, "Its existence is the result of a special kind of stupid: This is not your average, everyday stupidity that you run across in your daily life; this is an ADVANCED level of stupid you have to take special university courses in order to reach such depths of idiocy."

[@gowankommando]

If not hiring women is affecting your game production, your game was doomed from the start. Spiders is dumb

[@sakoniTV]

blizzard needs more victims for the cosby suite

[@scottball2796]

Well who else are these sweaty nerds going to harass while they are at work coding? 😂😂😂

[@greyjedi1272]

The point is when it comes to writing having a good balance on your team helps they product. Too many people want game design to be a white board with titties in all caps.

[@stephenoneil4266]

They never talk about women's representation in other work areas like oh idk, off shore oil rigging, Sewage maintenance , or brick laying. those jobs are well over 90% male

[@777arksMa77_RGM]

hey what bird was in 29:45?

[@bollockjohnson6156]

The west keeps making games for Larry Fink, Blackrock's CEO. That's their audience, one man.

[@danielsicko8593]

There are like 100 more. Just look at the whole playerbase for Dustborn

[@MisterGreis]

Blackrock is global. Japan is already pandering to them.

[@lk5388]

​@MisterGreis then they will bleed if they let it happen.

[@jacobsmith8377]

Japan is infamous for its "everyone has 2 faces". I trust them to play the game while they have to, and not lose themselves while they endure.​@MisterGreis

[@jacobtaylor7506]

Why not berkshire? They own more shares of a company then blackrock. How much they own sony? Barely 3%, all they do is like an etf strategy. You guys need to learn stocks and trading. They dont even own enough shares to influence a company.

[@DankWand]

People don't blame the actual devs who work on bad games enough imo. A lot of the time it's not just on the executives when garbage is made.

[@estogaza5827]

Ya it’s the programmers making anti white propaganda games and totally not the Jewish owners.

[@MrPozaidon]

I think this is partly because "oh we lost $2B dollars, fire 60% of the staff but keep the executives" that a lot of companies does. People are less harsh on devs because they are most likely getting punished already, while harder on executives because either they suffer nothing, or they get a golden parachute worth more money than most people will see in a lifetime.

[@SeanChristTV]

The executives hire these people and usually because of “DEI” which FORCES corporations to do woke stuff or suffer fines dude..

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@MrPozaidon i wish it was a case "not as harsh" but they downright excuse them of everything and blame solely the execs. Schrodinger's feminism, they're both empowered to change the world, and weak enough to only follow orders of their overlords.

[@PotatoSofi]

I'd say a lot of cases it's 60% devs and 40% executives.

[@glennchartrand5411]

If people cared about how employees were treated , nobody would buy an iPhone. The employees at their assembly plants fall into two categories s. 1. Almost slave labor. 2. Literal slave labor.

[@streamallday]

Hi twitch! 👋 0:10

[@sinusithis]

Wholesome

[@sliestcarpenter]

This DEI bullshit needs to stop immediately. These people are killing gaming and getting me to a level of pissed off that I’ve never been to. Stop it with the fucking DEI and get it out of gaming

[@Tawleyn]

DEI itself is not, and was never, a problem for gaming. BG3 is a perfect example of it being done well. The problem is disingenuous corpos and publishers who want to try and cash in on a perceived culture shift that was always going to face backlash because the movement itself has almost nothing to do with making good games. Good games and good stories have DEI baked into their very core. The problem is that DEI can also include straight white males in the right story setting, but the fake virtue signaling idiots that hold the reins don't actually understand what it's like to live in the real world. Where diversity can be having a straight white guy who's jewish living next door to a straight white guy who's a christian, to name one very specific example out of thousands possible.

[@TEFFTPATTERN]

Millennials and generation Z grew up in a world of remakes and reboots, and they have been taught that “responsibility” means using a widely loved IP from a past era as an outlet to propagandize their personal values. This problem is deeply woven into the way that people see their place in the world and how to “use” content that they get access to influence. The youngest 3 generations are culturally cooked, this isn’t a phase, nor is it going away

[@casualcausalityy]

​@@TawleynThat's not modern DEI, you can't just go off definitions anymore

[@1_underthesun]

The market will sort itself out. Companies that continue to try and push this stuff will go under or be forced to restructure into smaller entities, while studios who actually give gamers the kinds of games they want will earn a larger market share. Just like with Hollywood, what we're seeing right now is these studios burning through their reserves from years of enormous profits, but the well will (and is) running dry. The problem is that games take so long to make that what we're seeing released today were games that were designed and conceived of around 2020....and we all know what things were like around that time. Peak social justice nonsense and these studios banked on that fad either continuing on as it was then or even growing in popularity..... It's clear they certainly didn't anticipate the pendulum to have swung as far back as it has since then, and they're paying the price.

[@d_all_in]

​@@Tawleyn DEI is a political term, not a literal term.

[@NicoleMarie.]

What boggles my mind is that you can give any game (just about) to 1 modder and they can improve the game in every way, single handedly by 50%+. Another issue is we have no choice but to buy products from large, monopolized industries that usually involve some sort of human sacrifice. Everything is owned by a few corporations.

[@blazewardog]

The reasons why modders are able to scale like that is they are a small team with a unified vision. They also love the game. That leads to good ideas. A good example of this is the Invictus mod for Imperator:Rome. It took a very meh Paradox Grand Strategy and made it actually good. To the point where one of the original devs spent some personal time putting out a new patch for the game to make the modders' lives easier. Games used to be made/designed by smaller teams which is why they were better. Larger teams lead to design by committee which usually leads to mediocrity unless someone has the force of personality to strongly steer the committee (but that is them essentially doing it themselves).

[@chimeraelite]

Death by committee ​@@blazewardog

[@MarcinTrybus]

Not Starfield. This game is beyond saving.

[@SWOTHDRA]

AI is gonna make sure 1 or 2 person teams are gonna be normalised. You dont need to hire voice actors anymore. You can AI make quests, AI can do the AO of NPC's. The industry of big publishers is gonna crash hard and modders will make better games then these woke weirdos from montreal and california

[@Dice-Z]

Modding a game and actually coding a game are completely different. People refuse to understand this but the process of adding a feature as a mod is not the same as adding it officially. You do _not_ do it in the same way. You cannot just copy paste the code into the game. It's a lot easier to mod, for many more reasons, many of which are not mentioned by @blazewardog

[@ichrastegleichauslol]

"failure to hire woman" i thought in this day and age its about qualifications not genitalia. equality right?

[@scottball2796]

Nope, its about diversity, equity and inclusion. Doesnt matter if you are good at your...just tick a box.

[@normanmai7865]

These days it isn't even about genitalia anymore.

[@maddworld3317]

@@normanmai7865 They're getting more confused every year (=🤡)

[@BlazingOwnager]

@@scottball2796 Never forget EQUITY is not EQUALITY. People constantly do not understand this.

[@ruy_u]

>be game dev studio >ignore developer feedback >exclusively listen to management and follow the money >trailers look like ass and nobody likes it >continue to refuse to developer feedback and ignore player feedback >game flops who could have foreseen such a wondrous and marvelous turn of events?

[@S4NSE]

As someone that hasnt been playing games since they all started looking the same, Im very happy to hear big companies are finally taking some hits, they literally are just investors, hope the bubble soon bursts so that we only have people that love game developing

[@epgamer1145]

When you find out that a company offering you a little handout for you to push politics doesn’t actually support your company fully when that product your trying to sell isn’t meant for those who are suppose to buy it. The whole black rock industry really screwed over all the loser game publishers and studios. One hell of a way to create a golden age of gaming after killing off the bad apples.

[@reichbunny713]

Cultural revolution, this is a demoralization and dismantlement campaign.

[@procow2274]

About time im tired of living in a world of insanity

[@sean7221]

The insanity is only getting started boi

[@LøvæFråNordn]

get used to it. Most people are....well not exactly insane, just not very bright

[@TheGodkitty]

Imagine building a great public reputation as a developer only for a publisher to strong-arm you into doing things you know are wrong. Worse, a new game releases poorly and your reputation is destroyed because of that lack of flexibility. It's just demoralizing.

[@POOBSPLAYS]

Yeah a lot of jobs suck.

[@jackthetech5105]

Don't make (publishing) deals with the devil. The devil always wins. A small studio can self publish. It's easier today with the proliferation of the WWW so you don't even need to produce physical media anymore. Self market and publish online. I remember a small studio that released a ground breaking title back in the 90's. They barely marketed beyond giving away shareware versions of their game at universities and cons. They did eventually make publishing deals when the requirement of mass production and distribution of their many successful titles demanded resources beyond what the small studio could muster. And in some ways their work did suffer for some time due to their new corporate overlords but they kept on making titles gamers wanted and eventually struck a proper balance. Perhaps you've even heard of Id Software & their game DooM ?

[@nathaliecarluccio7559]

That's what they do to get their hands on your game and in a few years they will release it with a bit of new stuff and the dev has nothing because they stole everything from them 😊 Happened to Will Wright with the Sims! EA took over and booted him out!

[@renaudsimard7717]

​@@nathaliecarluccio7559on the flipside the devs can sometimes start their own studios afterwards and be successfull thanks to the experience that they gathered while working for their previous publisher

[@powerbeard5653]

working for any of these bigger publishers should be avoided at all costs

[@aesthetiques]

2:24 Wtf does "failure to protect" women mean? Women are supposed to be "protected"? Like they're supposed to get something that men don't get as an employee?

[@maverickstclare3756]

"Sales expectations" - we call those "imaginary"

[@Chao-Feng]

12:03 Concord isn't them taking a risk. It's them being gaslighted into thinking that woke is popular. The whole woke-ifying of games is one big Morbin Time.

[@BoredMarcus]

exactly, it took no risks at all. It was the most generic hero shooter possible. Just a bad copy of already existing games. They thought copying OW and injecting even more DEI would attract younger audiences. They were wrong

[@seanboglio3605]

Gaslit? No. The industry purged the decent people already. No one around was gaslit

[@leyasu888]

After hearing one of the complaints being not hiring enough women, i say just let them strike and fire them all.

[@mahfoudseraf5995]

The coomers are out of control

[@Tawleyn]

I only want one thing for my industry - hire the people who have the skills. Regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, religion or any other defining factor for who a person is. If they have the skills, fucking hire them. If that means you have to tell your HR that trust fund Chaz has 50% of the skills you're looking for, but indebted college kid Janiquah has 100% of them, so hire Janiquah, then so be it. But it absolutely should not be that Janiquah gets hired over Chaz if the skill levels were reversed just because she's more diverse.

[@leonkennedy9739]

Without enough women who are the devs going to coom to?

[@MerlinTheCommenter]

Yes. This.

[@Laroac]

yeah because you disagree with one complaint you ignire all others

[@TacticalGoldfishy]

Concord was not a "risk taken". The concept behind it was very much designed to be successful, based on marketing numbers seen at the time of its inception. "let's make a live service game. what's popular right now" "overwatch numbers look good" "ok, let's just make that, but we need to make it look like our own. what's a popular sci-fi trope that we can copy?" "guardians of the galaxy was very well received, and people are begging for more" It may or may not have been inspired, but everything about it was safe. The gameplay is slow and boring to be accessible to everyone. The characters are lame and soulless because they wanted safe and "inclusive". The character abilities were copy-pasted from from every successful other hero-shooter without inventing anything new. Nothing about it was a risk. Every decision surrounding it was calculated based on having a safe return on investment.

[@HHRain]

That's why they're so pissed and replying to posts they thought they can be cyberpunk and failed worse than cyberpunk

[@reichbunny713]

Research Maoist cultural revolution and the Frankfurt school. Why would investors pump money into things they KNOW will flop? Demoralization.

[@oscardalmatiner8724]

Here is the problem: why would people buy a copy of something that has already existed and been improved upon for 8 years?

[@Rhyhmx]

Well yes but they were 8 years late to the party and that's already a huge risk because the same thing happened with all the BR games as well. 2-3 survived while the rest of them died. Look at Mechabreak the game isnt revolutionary because it's basically a hero shooter but when did you last have mechs duking it out? Basically never and on top of that it plays well and the characters are hot for the menu eye candy and that's what makes it interesting, appealing and sets it apart from every other hero shooter on the market. Concord was like all the other hero shooters but late and uninspired in every other way and they somehow took D2's PvP style and managed to make it worse when D2 PvP was actually quite fun and it was never the main focus of the devs. its just clown decisions and clown devs thinking that heavily appealing to 1% of the playerbase will give them enough money to put bread on the table

[@Dice-Z]

Or at least they were TRYING to be safe. They were under the false impression that DEI is the safe route, many companies fall into this trap. But it's not the safe route, it's the total self sabotage route.

[@fishy7901]

I'd be happier if developers went back to PS2 era graphics if we could start getting good stories again. 4.5k games released during the PS2 era, 750 during PS5 era.

[@shophet125]

Agreed. We got mgs2, mgs3, silent hill 2, silent hill 3, fatal frame 2, and many other classics back in the PS2 days.

[@Micecheese]

PS3 graphics can look pretty close to now if we only had a true remake of the console with expanded ram, ssd, etc. but with a new cell processor. But devs rather make games on pc hardware turned into a console, not deal with the potential of such a powerful architecture.

[@NinjaWarrior88]

I thought Titus looked more like a young Mel Gibson, then a Henry Cavill 🤷‍♂️

[@muhammadujaama631]

I thought the same. "Hey it's space Mel Gibson!"

[@SammEater]

How hard it is to just make a game that people actually want? Leave your college kid "need to teach people a lesson" mentality and just do the job you are paid to do, a game that people will actually buy. Either that or go look for another job, McDonalds will always be hiring.

[@PandaBrrr]

Nope, flippy is coming.

[@moglet12345]

Dude we are on a recession, McDonald's would rather get automation than hire

[@BolshoyZloyDed]

Games are either representation of dev's soul or publisher's money printing strategy. Why devs are usually people with emotional baggage to teach us? I dunno. May be the work or road to it is not as easy as u think it is

[@reichbunny713]

It’s maoist cultural revolution, these are socialist games LMAo

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@reichbunny713 funny how the 2nd latest most fun game came straight from CHYNA. Not a bit of commie propaganda, but suddenly chinese sales are worth less than westerners' Totally not racist tho.

[@Hadgerz]

When consumers don't get what they pay for, publishers get what they 'f*cking' deserve

[@moglet12345]

Until they complain to the authorities and plan to sue everyone for being misogynists. It's sad but a reality

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@moglet12345 there's no real way to pass a law where you can sue people for NOT BUYING a product.

[@moglet12345]

@@denkerbosu3551 you don't know UK and Australia

[@AszkalonOfVerra]

*_How about another Joke, Sony ?_*

[@thatguyintherain3168]

​@@moglet12345 bruh, you can't be sued for not buying something. If you don't buy Minecraft, Mojang isn't going to break your knees

[@colebevans8939]

Globalized market. You have to compete with 8 billion other people. Guess what; 7.9 billion of the 8 billion alive don’t give 2 shits about DEI, call of duty 237, or your in game gambling. They want a game with crisp mechanics, interesting style, and a good story they can relate to. Devs in Poland and Japan do a much better job fulfilling those wants because they aren’t afraid to have beautiful feminine characters, strong masculine protagonists that their (90% male audience) admires, and will pay their employees well enough to attract the talent required to write a good story. America took over the world’s culture decades ago with blue jeans and rock and roll. That free rebellious spirit has always been what sells. America has lost its way and is now loosing the culture war. Sad times.

[@reichbunny713]

Nobody cares about DEI. They want to dismantle and destroy the legacy gaming industry, to make way for new socialist games. Observe fairgame$

[@Dice-Z]

The sad thing is this is completely false, >75% of people who play video games will gladly indulge in gambling, microtransactions, or play "call of duty 234", candy crush, or whatever other garbo. DEI on the other hand no one cares about it.

[@colebevans8939]

@@Dice-Z people engage in micro transactions and play call of duty xxx, but they don’t like it. Then witcher 3 comes out and we all blow our loads over how good the game was. We simply tolerate call of duty because the Witcher 4 and GTA 6 haven’t arrived yet.

[@vividly94]

@@colebevans8939 Yeah, games like Skyrim became popularized because the market for RPGs during the era blew. We were getting sequels, remasters, re-skins ect for so long (COD ect). I truly think Skyrim is a prime example of a decently bad game that was popular because there wasn't any other competition around it. The fact that the Witcher 3 came and pretty much outsold the entirety of Skyrim (after 4 releases) or at least at a close proximity is a feet in and of itself.

[@MichaelThompson-ux6nn]

the last part is the biggest one nothings wrong with diversity it just shouldn't be the only thing about your game. diversity isn't a fucking feature its character design. they are treating it like people are going to type diverse in the tag section on steam.

[@JamesFuston]

Career QA here, we find the vast majority of the bugs customers do. We can’t make management sign off on fixing them prior to release. Also WoW GMs are customer service, not QA. Totally separate professions.

[@Lattrodon]

I keep getting the feeling like video game graphics are literally getting worse... I feel like there were so many games in like 2015-2016 that looked SOOO much better than new games in 2024.. its insane how people are okay with this.

[@v8matey]

Same with comic book drawings. Look at now vs then.

[@aintijustthecutest3863]

“GreedFail” - game about greedy corpo’s failing in turning a profit, speedrunning bankruptcy. I would definitely play that! 😂

[@cmbaz1140]

These devs and studios have yet to realize that games are "optional"...nobody HAS to play them.

[@FriendsForFriends666]

Just make a good game and stop blaming people who just want to enjoy a game for your failure to do so. Are these people high or something?

[@Pyrus335]

yes.

[@sinafey7030]

thats the thing, they live in an echochanber bubble, being brainwashed most of the time. u cant expect a person like that to think racionally.

[@Cavthena]

The typical type of people that end up working in this industry are either: Entertainment salespeople that you see in the movie industry that just rely on throwing out anything that will make money with one or two good titles sprinkled in and ignore criticism. Or Devs that are overly soft, insecure individuals that don't know how to handle criticism. Throw in "you have to include social issue X, Y, Z" into the mix and ta-da failing industry.

[@don.keebles]

High on their own farts probably

[@don.keebles]

Whoops nevermind, KZbin added my original comment again. Probably to counter my second comment implying farts are offensive to them. This is what happens when KZbin deletes comments for no apparent reason. This is on you KZbin!

[@DerpyDerp254]

If "Hire more women" or to be honest, ANY other central business quality comes before "Make, market and ship games that gamers love" on your list of priorities, your video game company is going to fail at some point.

[@jabbawookeez01]

imma say it.. im tired of people always complaining about "low wages" you will always feel like the wages are low even if you are getting paid well for your work. not everyone needs to be making 6 figures a year for their job.

[@LockeNarshe]

I'm of two schools of thought on "the best time alive to be a gamer". I grew up on the SNES/N64/PS1 era of games. To me, that was the best time to be alive as a gamer. Limitations in graphics allowed for the FREEDOM to try other shit. If you wanted to stand out, you had to take talented nerds who loved games and wanted to make games for other nerds... and trust them to do that. It's as simple as that. While the 2000s have offered more competition in the form of indie developers and smaller teams that love the old craft and just want to put out a passion project, they've also offered 10x as much vaporware and absolute crap. Even with Triple AAA studios, even with indie studios, even with storefronts like Steam or Epic or whatever else--you have to wade through a ton of sewage to find a good game that fits your tastes. You have media and content creators that lie about games. You have to do so much research to find a game you'll actually enjoy now because so much of it is a trap. Navigating a minefield of ever-increasing costs, deceit and just good ol' shovelware disguised as real games--just to find a way to enjoy your favorite recreational pastime--is what has a lot of people on edge. Nerds aren't making games anymore, executives that don't play are.

[@georgeporgy7568]

N64 Anyone remember Body Harvest? It was made by the company that became Rockstar, DMA Design.

[@nathanh2725]

I think it's just nostalgia bro.

[@softluxuryone2169]

​@@nathanh2725Many games from that era are alive today on number x or remade. Why is that...

[@nathanh2725]

@@softluxuryone2169 nostalgia

[@georgeporgy7568]

@@softluxuryone2169 Because a good game is normally all ways going to be a good game.

[@Rivershield]

Gamers are one of the easiest demographic to please. If you make a game with half decent gameplay and bait it with hot women, people are gonna buy it. That's why fanservice used to be standard practice in the past. If you make a game with excellent gameplay and hot girls, you will be crowned King of the Gamers and be rewarded accordingly. It's that easy.

[@SWOTHDRA]

Net even needed but just make them look attractive.

[@Dice-Z]

You only need one of those. Not even both. If there's something even slightly pretty to look at, or half decent gameplay with the most barebone game that has pre-SNES graphics, people will love it.

[@I8igf57jjgxr]

Not happening with all these new girl bosses. Cartman had it spot on in joining the panderverse. Kathleen Kennedy archetype is alive and thriving.

[@moeaungmyin4816]

Wukong is just monkey😂😂

[@dukeofgotham4311]

Reject women embrace hotness of monke

[@CUSTODYIN]

As a QA person, games come out buggy because the devs either don't listen or just don't fix the bugs that are reported by QA, a lot of what QA does is overlooked and ignored. Say QA reports 10 easily reproducible defects, the devs fix 4 of them, the game launches with people finding those other 6 bugs, who gets the blame? QA.

[@LethalShadow]

100% Most players have no clue that most games launch with hundreds of known bugs in the dev's database. People blaming QA generally don't know what they are talking about.

[@LethalShadow]

@@habama1077 The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Obviously changing the deadlines would allow for more things to be fixed. However I've also seen devs downplay or argue against the importance of things flagged by QA early on, only to face the significance of the problem months down the line, when there is no longer enough time to implement the fixes. Shoveling forward, or kicking the can down the road, is distressingly common in video game development. I don't blame the programmers doing the grunt work. I blame all of the Leads, designers, and directors.

[@puzzardosalami3443]

​@@habama1077Time to stop the sanctification of game developers. They are just like everyone else.

[@oRnch199]

We don't typically blame QA. We blame the company.

[@oRnch199]

No one says "damn the QA team of Ubisoft."

[@Wedolko]

Damn they took down asmonds concord redesign video in 20 minutes. Never let them claim they dont have a side they chose.

[@-RXB-]

Which one?

[@psychodrummer1567]

Golden age of gaming started with Amiga and ended with PS2

[@drumnbassdan]

Get rid of the activists that have made it into your companies via DEI policy and just hire devs that want nothing more than to make good video games again.

[@donut132]

"We strike because there were not enough women in game development " meanwhile, women in development make crap like concord or last of us 2

[@TheStupidDetectiv]

Nellie Druckman

[@nicofash6366]

100% as soon as I heard that in the complaint I was like "well the strikers are in the wrong"

[@drzdeano]

therea nothing wrong with women in games development unless their only quality or reason for employment is being a woman. 'women' didnt design concord, people with very specific political views. woke is applicable to men and women.

[@darrenmills3943]

Game studios are so terrified of risk that they'd rather be certain of failure

[@jacobsmith8377]

Giving themselves an illusion of control by self sabotaging, true 😂

[@christianalanwilson434]

And when they're taking close to a decade(!) to make a game, whatever trend they were chasing has usually already passed by the time it comes out.

[@thedessicated6659]

You guys, just ...ugh, your brains are a thing, use them. The complaint about a lack of women is simple: You write what you know. So yes, a bunch of guys complaining because they need women to write female characters, because while Chaz is an outlier who can pull it off he's also like, one guy out of however many script-writers or whatever the term is? Completely reasonable, and we certainly wouldn't have this air of disdain if it were female workers demanding additional male coworkers, now would we? Jokes? Yes. 'Calling them out' over complaining about an acute gender imbalance in the workplace? Hardly. So yes, do try thinking instead of defaulting to regurgitated hypocrisy will you? I promise it won't hurt ...that much.

[@jeffrey778]

the quality of the games will go down as long as the quality of workers goes down. quota systems and diversity culture has nothing to do with work ethic publishers need to realize this.

[@mexicanconquistador9280]

Black Myth: Hernan Cortez This guy COOOOOKED, as a Mexican I need it now

[@ragragrec1]

Things that I hope dies by 2024 in gaming : 1. DEI / Wokeness 2. Early Access/ Beta Release / Unfinished crap 3. ALL microtranx barring cosmetics 4. Games that look like ps3 models

[@hidehide8766]

Yk that WITHOUT Beta certain Game Genres cannot do releases?

[@roguegargoyle914]

Early Access was initially rolled out as a way to support small studios, who don't have enough to fully fund their game nor have a dedicated QA team, it's not inherently bad. It becomes bad when larger studios, who can afford to fully fund their game with a QA department, abuse it. I have bought a couple of early access games, as a way of supporting a studio making something I'm interested in but I generally don't play them until they are finished products. Beta testing (as long as it's free) is a fantastic way to test a game in the wild before release for so many reasons.

[@davidk.8434]

"Early access" is just the gamer's version of "Agile development", which has perverse incentives to treat software as if its never finished

[@BlazingOwnager]

3. ALL MICROTRANSACTIONS PERIOD. This "cosmetics is okay" thing was fine when it was Free 2 Play stuff. Now that it's in $70 titles they can foooook right off

[@Sedona_FD3S]

CEO of devs here. I’m firing every single dev that loves DEI. Draining the swamp. Thank you.

[@foreseer4552]

No, thank YOU!

[@SuperCasperman]

Sure buddy

[@SWOTHDRA]

Thank you! And fire the community manager, they seem to be the worst

[@Ouvii]

Lol, the CEO is the one that loves the DEI because it gets them more investor money. Devs usually think DEI shouldn't exist because it's just another authority to give braindead takes on how to do their job, enforced by executives like the CEO.

[@Sedona_FD3S]

@@Ouvii alright, I’m firing myself and all the investors that love DEI too. Thank you.

[@fadywael8695]

5:36 bro this looks like a mobile game wtf

[@juice-k]

Old guy perspective. - QA is a cost center, and as such it's turned into "where can we hire the most people for least amount of money". - Even if someone was god tier QA, there's a low cap to pay, so those people will either move to management or move to a different role - Test plans are written for the lowest common denominator to ensure "coverage" - Automation was supposed to reduce QA, but that doesn't seem to be the case due to complexity When games were smaller, 5 people who knew what they were doing in QA would be better than what was actually run -> 20 bodies + 1 person that knew what they were doing to deal with the 20 people who don't. The problem is, no operations person would let people sit there and do nothing, even if a making a bunch of them work would be a net drag on a project.

[@kyledouglascox]

Thats another sad part of this concord situation. The studio (being out of touch, as they do) will undoubtedly miss the plot and think the game failed because it was a new IP and a risk, rather than the actual reason it failed, which was: it was just a shitty, unfun game, and also because it was absolute woke nonsense that literally everyone despises

[@Neopulse00]

4:00 - "No Lies Detected"

[@JasonChen927]

1:53 I don't think Concord is a failed risk-taking. It failed exactly because Sony refused to take any risk of losing its most precious "modern audience."

[@bt70a9]

A mythology I would like to see more of is Norse mythology. Not specifically Vikings and middle age stuff. But more like the old Pagan beliefs and mythological creatures. Maybe a mix of Action Combat and the game "Bramble: The Mountain King". *If you haven't seen Bramble: The Mountain King, I highly recommend you have a look at it.* It might seem a bit childish at first, but that's how the old fantasy stories often was written, through the eyes of younger humans!

[@GimmeAll-u8p]

who else was in the middle of watching the concord got saved video before it was deleted?

[@Wedolko]

Yup, never let them tell you they dont have a favored side.

[@Alessiokat]

3:40 this is WILD 💀💀💀

[@8bittrigger]

That’s completely ridiculous. Like have some integrity dude.

[@jhinabloomingflower807]

@@8bittriggerwhen you are weak how could asmon feel differently? It will only hurt him more in the end So he is pretending and coping But hey what you give you take What you are you get what you deserve Eventually Nobody won against Time

[@V1489Cygni]

Why? How much research do you do into what you buy and consume to make sure it's up to your standards? He says 95% of people think like this? Make that 99.9%, with an awful lot of those having their cake and eating it too: they _feel_ very strongly about it (and consequently feel good with themselves for "caring") while consuming nonetheless. It's your run of the mill college socialist girl complaining about capitaliam from her new iphone at Starbucks, your friendly neighborhood enviromentalist not caring about open pit heavy metal mines in Africa, cheap sweatshop clothes etc etc etc. Is he being literal? Is it an exageration? Would he actually act like this if horrible stories came to light? Who knows. Still, most people will continue to not care enough to actively go looking for nasty hidden stories. If you ever find yourself feeling good about doing something that involves no cost, risk or effort, doubt your motivations and your commitment. Doubly so if that pride can allow you to put yourself above others.

[@larsthemartian9554]

I appreciate the honesty. Most people are this way. They only care about the people close to them. People are innately self-serving at the end of the day, which is totally fine. We're all animals after all. Just the way it is

[@Dice-Z]

@@V1489Cygni This.

[@evenr1.812]

not listening to the people they're selling the games to is a road to failure

[@reichbunny713]

It’s deliberate, they hate your guts, and it is worth every penny lost

[@DerekS-lg6nt]

This is all good news. We have developers and consumers basically going on strike now. Everyone has had it with investors ruining games and making bad decisions. Chasing profits over good games is ruining the industry and everyone is fighting back. More of this and the Concord type debacle are good for the consumer. No one is willing to accept the spewed out trash that is being delivered.

[@AkamoriArt]

It's almost like focusing on the immutable characteristics of people has nothing to do with success, entertainment, quality, or efficency... Crazy, that.

[@B3RyL]

1. Kill most good games because you don't expect them to make money 2. Ship all the crap games that you think will make money 3. Kill the crap games when you realize no one wants to play them 4. Force the leftover crap into the few good games you didn't kill to recoup the losses 5. Watch those games turn into crap games and people abandoning them 6. Wonder why your corporation is failing, but god forbid you learn anything 7. Collect your golden parachute and bail Basically the executives of big publishers.

[@near--zero]

black myth Moses would actually be badass... you could summon the plagues of egypt, control water, summon a flame tornado and you're backed up by god who sent you on the quest

[@jacobsmith8377]

You could say itd be a game of...BIBLICAL proportions 😂

[@commoncommentor8829]

early birds All I can say is that what goes around comes around.

[@deminisis]

Asian gaming is going to steamroll the west in our stupidity.

[@leisiyox]

@@daisy9181 eastern games look like copy pastes sometimes

[@reichbunny713]

They’ve already had their cultural revolution, there is nothing to upheave

[@mahfoudseraf5995]

​@daisy9181 gayer? some of the 3d anime ones are wierd and can come across as coomer bait I guess but at the end of the day you pick either gay or kind of gay

[@deminisis]

@@daisy9181 From what I could tell, Yuri and Yaoi manga was around in the early 70s. I think Japan normalized certain themes in games and media a lot earlier than the west. The West is hurting itself by forcing it and destroying hetero-normative themes at the same time, which is causing a aggressive reaction by gamers.

[@SuperCasperman]

​@leisiyox like dark souls games are being pump out every month 🤦‍♂️

[@FrenchyMcToast]

I disagree, nobody involved in the creation of Concord thought of it as a risk. Sony bought the entire studio for it, they wouldn't do that for a bad bet. If anything it's total lack of innovation or edge was a major contributor to its failure.

[@mikeloeven]

3:15 Hard cut to Cthulhu begrudgingly learning C++ because of how many new sacrifices the game dev cultists bring him if he keeps them happy.

[@kurisu100]

The experiment with people who had never really worked and who were simply graduates of a business administration course and who were made into managers, planners, coordinators and decision-makers has failed. Everywhere you hear the same problem.

[@araaraaura1887]

It's also why quality writing in entertainment is so rare these days. College courses are not a substitute for life experience, and it shows.

[@h1r086]

I'm the polar opposite of asmond.. the company's behavior is actually more important to me than the quality of the product, because it will inform the future of the industry. A good product from a company that doesn't care will devolve into milking the franchise as it disintegrates and becomes ideologically weaponized against society. A poor product from a company that cares will become a lesson if they can survive the failure, and a stepping stone towards honest improvement. Meritocracy isn't black and white if you take a long term view of things.

[@Broodjemetbeleg]

Yup, happy employees = better outcome.

[@h1r086]

@@Broodjemetbeleg Yep I didn't even get to that. I only addressed the company's behavior, but employees gotta be taken into account as well.

[@e-tean-son4146]

So refreshing to see someone with a different perspective

[@azrael_pendragon]

The joker thumbnail of the goofy jared leto looking suicide squad version is honestly one of the more scarier ones.

[@HHRain]

No

[@supersaiyanzero386]

*of

[@azrael_pendragon]

@@HHRain ?

[@epicmage82]

The way you talk about not caring where a game comes from is exactly how I feel about AI making a game. If it's good, I don't care. If it makes games better, put everyone out of work. Don't care.

[@alk3rio97]

All these people criticize crunch, but then they praise the studies that are the worst for it, like Naughty Dog, because they filled it with all their political talking points

[@Brayguanzo]

This is what happens when you let a woke ideology flourish in the work place. You could be the most perfect kind boss, and ur staff will always turn on you. (I don't know the bosses in thos situation, but still.) Because you will always be the oppressor in their mind, and their deepest want, is to be oppressed, so they can find a cause. Games aren't these people's first priorities.

[@Dice-Z]

What are you even on about.

[@jacobsmith8377]

Hes talking about "Victim Mentality", and people who are "Professional Victims". If you google it, you will learn quite a lot. ​@@Dice-Z

[@cheddulous]

A wokehammer tv show or movie would be a disaster. Henry Cavill would be wasted in a live action adaptation.

[@justinwhite2725]

Henry Cavil was planning on directing a live action Warhammer, and he wanted it to be faithful to the lore after what happened with The Witcher.... ..So Amazon put pressure on Gears Workshop to wokify the lore and use that as the basis for the show. The project is now scrapped.

[@christianalanwilson434]

Cavill should just stream his Warhammer games. He'd be huge and could do whatever he wanted.

[@Turk3y89]

Black Myth: Vlad Dracula

[@darksylince1792]

It's like going to McDonald's and ordering and paying for a large fry, big mac, and a milkshake. And then the cashier hands you Medium fries, 10 piece nuggets and large drink. This is neither what I asked nor paid for, and you expect me not to get mad?

[@JoziWOW]

Black Myth: Odyssey has a nice ring to it. It even has the bosses written out for it already: Scylla and Charybdis, Polyphemus the giant cyclops, and the big bad boy Poseidon himself, you can even have the intro be the invasion of troy where you fight fucking Hercules at the end. Im really surprised someone didn't make a 3D Beat-em-up of the story already,. I mean, if Dante's fucking inferno can be adapted...

[@cosmicxchaos]

Visions of Mana looks fun so I intended to buy it soon, but since they are shuttering the studio I'm waiting for a sale. Money won't support the Devs and NetEase doesn't deserve any support.

[@RogueEva]

not true about QA and more variables - it's about companies cutting most of QA to save money because they're not forced to release games on cd/dvd as they used to. Also, people got used to pay for broken games.

[@Chung_Wang]

That's less true than it used to be after the rise of live service games. In the old days of physical relases 90% of the QA team would be laid off in Nov and then hired back on around summer the next year for the next game (and work 100 hour weeks during crunch to make up for the months of unemployment). The issue is you need a large QA staff during production, then a smaller staff during sustainment. That's why big publishers like Microsoft outsource all of their individual studios QA to a 3rd party testing company, so that when one game wraps up you can move some staff around and in turn keep a more experienced staff. It's been my experience that QA has only gotten better and more professional (and more stable) in the 10 years I've been in the industry.

[@RogueEva]

@@Chung_Wang i experienced smaller QA in general games just because you can let players pay for your game and test it for free. But it's good that your experience says otherwise, that would be good

[@androtaz2621]

if you care enough to strike try caring enough to make something people actually want. I'm so sick of this oh poor programmers and artists sob story.

[@freakinpayne7228]

"failure to hire women" lol, if these publishers were any smart they would fire those devs, and hire actual competent devs based on skill and not what they have between their legs.

[@Courier_Eris]

28:58 Jack and the beanstalk. Can you think of how cool that would be to run around in the giants world and have to fight literal giant bosses!!

[@Call_Me_Matrix]

4:10 Consoomer moment

[@GearForTheYear]

Yeah no kidding. He doesn’t care if literal human sacrifices were made on behalf of the game developers as long as the game is good? Wtf

[@jhinabloomingflower807]

Caring hurts People don’t want to be left out It’s easy thus more temporal Rewarding There’s a reason the human race is made to follow the crowd Going against the human nature has its costs As so with siding with it So make up your conclusions everyone Make your picks Or be born with pre decided picks for you Because people don’t change

[@francovillaa]

@@GearForTheYearif it don’t affect you why would you care? It gets to the point where you can’t help nor think of others if they don’t think themselves … everything has levels , we all are humans , we all are monsters

[@GearForTheYear]

@@francovillaa it seems you are the monster, and I am the human

[@narxic]

​@@GearForTheYeartrue.

[@Kievitzi]

If they are not making good products, they dont deserve money and they dont deserve to exist on the freemarket. No business, no revenue, company bankrupt.

[@nathanh2725]

Free market is a illusion. First thing people do in a free market is price out competitors.

[@thomasinlondon2849]

Having games funded by gamers is the best route. The world has evolved passed DEI Ubisoft and Activision.

[@RBFR01]

Gaming right now is the worst time in history to get into gaming. Gaming sucks overall and companies are the greediest they've ever been.

[@FantomMisfit]

That's not entirely true there are more great games already out there then you could beat in your lifetime. The problem is people only wanna play new stuff when plenty of great games already exist. If the new games are bad then just play the old ones. For example Zelda fans have like 15+ games they could play besides BOTW or TOTK.

[@CenrelianGuardsmen]

19:46 damn, I thought that image was something else...my brain is officially cooked

[@nerdimmunity7672]

The French love to strike I’m surprised games are made there at all.

[@Apercu]

Hold fast and God speed gamers. They'll eventually learn and we win in the end.

[@reichbunny713]

How did holding fast work for the traditionalist Chinese ? How did holding fast work for the Russian Orthodox Church? Fighting back is the only way forward. (out competing AAAA games with indie titles)

[@Dice-Z]

@@reichbunny713 "AAAA games" 😂

[@Apercu]

@@reichbunny713 lol what? Consumers don't make games. We buy games. So the less we spend our money on said 'aaaa' games, the more we win. That is literally how consumers can 'fight back'.... voting with our wallet.

[@reichbunny713]

@@Apercu The market will move on without you, delaying is not defeating.

[@Apercu]

@@reichbunny713 What are you on about? They're literally shutting down Concord. Nobody is playing Suicide Squad or many of these games with annoying agendas.

[@paigeg.9261]

I agree the aborted stance. If the game is failing, drop it. It won' t sell or make the money back. So far it looks horrible.

[@karthik7282]

No, let them release it and suffer the loses 😉

[@SuperCasperman]

I mean games do make it back No mans sky Fallout 76... Games CAN make a turn around. Hate 76 all you wanted, it has millions of players

[@kls1836]

​@@SuperCasperman bro keys for fallout 76 are 1 dollar where as Skyrim still sells for 8 dollars how much glaze did you swallow. Skyrim has 29000 active players whereas fallout 76 has less than 20000 go back to maths class lil bro.

[@Ragnarakk187]

Unions spend more time protecting seniority than quality

[@chipsalom]

Because unions don't exist to protect the products, they exist to protect the ppl producing them. They're imperfect for sure, but having worked in both union friendly and union antagonistic industries, my work quality, personal life quality and bank account were much better, which for most ppl in my experience led to taking more personal pride in the work I performed. But to be clear, let's not confuse what unions exist for and what they are supposed to deliver.

[@Ragnarakk187]

@@chipsalom but they shouldn’t protect a lack of work ethic due or the inability to keep up with harder working younger people just because you’ve been there longer. If someone else works harder, does more, does better, is faster than they deserve the job more than someone who isn’t putting in the work anymore since they know they’re protected just because they’ve been there longer

[@caster269]

Something worth noting about QA in the games industry: the overwhelming majority are amateur level, however this is because that’s the intention. For the past 15yrs or so it’s rare to find QA devs in the AAA industry, or outsourced companies they use, that keep their job for over 2 years. There’s a system of hire, train, and before 2yrs fire 90% to avoid giving raises and feen in the next batch of entry level employees. Ultimately resulting in a situation where the majority of QA reports waste developer time because they lack company knowledge that comes with experience and new QA members know report quantity is what management is looking it for the staff they keep. Many devs often find the rare case of 5x experienced QA to be exponentially more time efficient than 25x of the usual temp hire and fire QA.