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penquin, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs

Yay capitalism. The pursuit of infinite quarterly profit will fuck and enshitify everything we’ve ever known.

bravesilvernest, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs
@bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml avatar

“Fat trim” is the other one I recently heard, and it’s absolutely the worst one I’ve heard so far. Glad they consider humans working their best as “fat”…

Blackout, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs
@Blackout@kbin.run avatar

This company literally prints money but it's not good enough without the human suffering.

AFC1886VCC, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs

🏴‍☠️GTA 6🏴‍☠️

Damage,

I mean, for the first bunch of years PC users won’t have any choice but to emulate

KingThrillgore,
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Only reason they’re launching on consoles first is probably because Sony paid for it.

ArmoredThirteen, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs

This is such a bad time for me to be trying to get back into the game industry fml

JohnBrownNote,

might be better off trying to make the next indie darling.

affiliate, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs

i wonder how 5% of employees getting laid off will translate into executive bonuses. last year the top 2 guys made $72 million after laying off a bunch of people.

Th4tGuyII, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs
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Actually "rationalising the pipeline" would be getting rid of all the massively overpaid execs, rather than the people who actually make the Take-Two execs their money

BruceTwarzen,

Absolutely sickening. Yeah, we can't afford you people actually doing the money making and Jeremy's new yacht. It was a tough decision, i swear

RealFknNito,
@RealFknNito@lemmy.world avatar

Not defending corporations but these massive conglomerates usually get so intricate, so messy, that there are people who end up getting a paycheck that genuinely do not get assignments. In other words, getting paid to watch paint dry. So sometimes the comments that look terrible are directed at people who were doing nothing or very nearly nothing and still getting paid for it.

But yes also fuck executives getting x80 the pay of developers.

bilb,
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People always say this, but the execs and board members making obscene money for doing as little a possible is the whole point of the endeavor.

GlowHuddy, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs
@GlowHuddy@lemmy.world avatar

And ofc it’s just to raise their stock a little bit :) Big corpos are real life monsters

TommySoda, do gaming w Borderlands 3 community scores a big win for science: 'These players have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than a million different kinds of bacteria that live in the human gut'

As a person that didn’t really enjoy the borderlands games, I had no idea this was happening and this is easily the oddest thing if read all week. Before I read the article I was confused but interested. Now I’m informed, confused, and interested. But hey, I’m glad they were able to do this with a game. I’m an average science enjoyer so I’m always glad to see good news.

Postmortal_Pop,

As a bug fan of borderlands, I honestly wish they made a mobile spin off for the minigame that they’re using for this. I love playing the game they made for it, I love that it’s doing actual stuff, I just have a limited amount of time to sit down and play games at my pc and when I boot borderlands I wanna play borderlands.

teawrecks, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs

This is business as usual for Rockstar development. Historically they wait until right after they ship, though.

NateNate60, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs
@NateNate60@lemmy.world avatar

Whatever happened to “We’re firing people because we realised we can do the job with fewer workers so we want to save money”?

At least then it’s honest.

metaStatic,

you've never been even remotely close to the cult of management have you?

Carighan,
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Honest would be “We’re firing people to make our short term profits look better. That’s what my bonuses are based on, after all!”.

Carighan, do gaming w Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is laying off 5% of its workforce and 'rationalizing its pipeline,' the latest skin-crawling corporate euphemism for people losing their jobs
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Maybe we should rationalize their CEO with an actual pipeline, to use another euphemism…

Immersive_Matthew, do gaming w Borderlands 3 community scores a big win for science: 'These players have helped trace the evolutionary relationships of more than a million different kinds of bacteria that live in the human gut'

Wow the trailer in the article for the project was fantastic. What a great project.

Pixlbabble, do games w The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character '8 years in the making', and a significant quality of life improvement

Will it still be walking in circles lost and backtracking?

simple,

Probably. They didn’t want to change too much from the original.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do gaming w I tried two demos of machine learning AI NPCs, and they didn't convince me AI will lead to anything that immersive sims like Deus Ex haven't already done better

Thanks for reminding me again that Deus Ex is a dormant IP

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