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kagrocery, do games w Rise of the Triad: Ludicrous Edition | Available Now on Console and PC

I absolutely love that they got Civvie in there.

Frogster8, do games w The games industry sucks

Profit margin driven companies backed by a capitalist society where infinite growth is deemed viable sucks*

vrek, do games w Underrail: Heavy Duty Trailer

I thought this was a trailer for unrailed expansion and was really confused…

mosiacmango, do games w The games industry sucks

Alanah is a great creator. She worked for IGN as a reporter for years, then at Funhaus as a host/editor, and finally broke into games writing, which was her goal for a long time. She also hosts an excellent cross discipline gaming podcast with gaming actors/musicians/devs talking about all things gaming.

Shes seen the industry from every angle. Its telling that her conclusion as a whole is “this is fucked.”

dojan,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think you need that much insight to see that the whole institution is fucked.

  • Rampant “frat bro” culture
  • Frequent cases of sexual harrassment, and assault
  • Cases of suicide
  • Cases of burnout
  • Layoffs like clockwork
  • Often deliver rubbish products
  • Frequently employs consumer-hostile and manipulative tactics

What is even the point, really? Maybe I’m an outlier but I don’t feel like the AAA gaming industry provides enough good to warrant all the crap they put their workers through, and the way the sentient wallets customers are treated.

money_loo,

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?

dojan,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

By asking “what’s the point” I meant less “what’s their goals” and more “what benefit do they serve?”

I’d love for some big swoop to just upend the entire industry. Create better conditions for the workers. Stop the companies from stealing from artists. Have actual consequences for nepotism, corruption, and abuse of power. Like crunch and all that BS is just expected as though it is because of the job, but it’s not, it’s because of the system.

money_loo,

I guess the “benefit” they serve is to increase the payout % for the people at the top of the ladder and their goal is to do that until the breaking point that some higher up takes the blame and they fall with a golden parachute before landing at another company exactly the same as the last one.

Rinse and repeat until you’re Summering on a yacht? Seems pretty straightforward to me.

WHYAREWEALLCAPS,

Yeah, all that you described? That’s what a union does. points at WGA They did it against some of the biggest multimedia companies. The only people who are going to fix the gaming industry are the workers and that takes a union.

dojan,
@dojan@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah I live in a country where pretty much everyone is unionised. What I described is standard here. It could be over there too.

kromem,

She’s been great for a long time. One of the few people with public comments on the industry that has a really great intuitive grasp on the business side of it.

PeachMan,
@PeachMan@lemmy.world avatar

I mean honestly it makes sense. If we assume that the average game dev is similar to the average “hardcore” gamer, then we can only assume that they’re toxic little shits 😆

mosiacmango,

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.

skellener, do games w The games industry sucks
@skellener@kbin.social avatar

It’s always sucked - at least with large companies.

Nobsi,
@Nobsi@feddit.de avatar

Nope. All companies started in the 90s as groups of gamerbros. When they started to make loads of money and had to get managers cause they didnt want to do management was when it started to go down.

steakmeout,

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.

DagothUr,

Blizzard made awesome games and was led by someone who wanted to make awesome games. Eventually they gave upper management to someone who doesnt play games and now we have empty sheels

FinalBoy1975, do games w The games industry sucks

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  • gramie,

    The solution is not for you to show contempt or lack of empathy to these people, it’s for them and you to demand better treatment from the owners and executives.

    The system is fucked and it is skewed wildly against anyone who is not at the top.

    FinalBoy1975,

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  • skulbuny,
    @skulbuny@sh.itjust.works avatar

    By your own admission you are punching down or sideways at best. Punch up. You see what you want to see, you aren’t the only person in the world who’s a card carrying union member here nor are you the only person who cares about workers in any non-tech industry here. Class infighting is about the dumbest thing ever.

    heydo,

    Boy howdy, you sure are committed to your idiot perspective aren’t you?

    FinalBoy1975,

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  • echo64,

    Me hurt from lack of other people caring about bad things happening to me. Me hate people who care about other people having bad things happen to them.

    FinalBoy1975,

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  • echo64,

    Please learn about paragraphs. Thank you.

    nyoooom,

    I don’t think you realize that video game developers and other related jobs are pretty badly compensated for the job they’re doing. Those devs are among the most skilled ones and could probably earn 5 or 10x what they’re getting now by going to work at some FAANG or big banks. They’re working here because they love video games and want to create something fun, so it sucks when you just get fired like that.

    Also, it’s not because you’ve had it worse that their situation is okay, it’s fairly easy to always find a worse situation and just dismiss any issue.

    JackGreenEarth, do games w The games industry sucks
    @JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee avatar

    Indie game development works well. It’s really just that large companies suck in video games as well as all other areas, so not really news.

    WarmSoda, do games w The games industry sucks

    These companies have always used the call center style of employment.

    They’re ‘seasonal’ positions.

    DudeDudenson,

    Yeah having worked in a call center for 3 years I always find it amusing when people think these issues are related to a certain industry when in reality it’s just the core essence of capitalism calling for infinite growth in a finite market

    Even_Adder, do gaming w Volt Tackle, the first official Pokemon x Hatsune Miku crossover song has released

    This has to be the worst Hatsune Miku I’ve ever seen.

    karpintero, do games w Fate/Samurai Remnant - Launch Trailer

    This looks pretty cool. A Fate game set in the Edo period with samurai. So far reviews seem positive, might have to check this one out

    Sanctus, do games w The games industry sucks
    @Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

    I don’t know how to say this but corporations suck. They turn human spirit into profits and excrement. Anything led by a corporation will inevitably suck if it doesn’t right off the bat.

    moody,

    The stock market has to be one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made as human beings.

    PeterPoopshit,

    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.

    bobs_monkey,

    Because it makes the fat cats even richer, they couldn’t give less of a fuck about the rest of us.

    GhostOfElectricity,
    @GhostOfElectricity@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

    It’s time the fat cats had a heart attack.

    WHYAREWEALLCAPS,

    You know that their time’s coming to an end

    Staccato,

    Until you dismantle inheritance, the old fat cats will find a way to pass their wealth to younger fat cats.

    Sanctus,
    @Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

    Don’t worry, the environment has a plan

    Haui,
    @Haui@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Are there any tech co-ops or 100% employee owned companies? Could be a system forward.

    Sanctus,
    @Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

    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.

    Haui,
    @Haui@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    Makes sense I guess. Thanks for elaborating.

    azertyfun,

    Co-ops are quite rare in Europe as well. I can’t name a single tech co-op.

    In fact I’d say it worse over here. In my experience stock options are a very rare kind of remuneration, whereas as far as I understand it’s common in US Big Tech companies like Google or Apple (though of course non-voting shares are a far cry from actual co-ownership of the company).

    On the other hand corporate profits are taxed pretty high in many countries (for the smaller tech companies that aren’t based in Ireland). It’s 30 % here in Belgium IIRC. So at least some of the profits make it back to the people, in a more general sense.

    Molecular0079, do games w AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 First Look

    They still have not fixed the absolutely terrible dis-occlusion artifacts that were present in FSR 2 and, in fact, it seems to have gotten worse with frame generation. Here’s an example of what the artifacts look like:

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7fe4d825-2c55-4cfb-b51e-b0002fbb05b6.png

    FSR’s lack of AI reconstruction is still keeping me on DLSS and team green despite Nvidia’s price-gouging and mediocre Linux support.

    verysoft, do games w The games industry sucks

    It's impossible to get people to stop buying AAA games, but please, stop buying AAA games.

    Duamerthrax,

    Indie stuff is way more interesting anyway, but I could never get my old lan party friends to look at them.

    Grippler,

    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.

    Haui,
    @Haui@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    I bought minecraft when it was 10$ I believe. Pretty sure it was still played in the browser then.

    I‘m down for this type of indie game. :)

    snota,

    I agree, I’m looking for immersion and story. That said, I’m also willing to wait a few months for devs to fix all the bugs they should have removed before the rushed release dates.

    H_Interlinked,
    @H_Interlinked@kbin.social avatar

    "Choose" isn't really an accurate term to use in your comment though, is it? Obviously high-realism AAA game graphics are going to come with a high budget outside the realm of possibility for the average indie dev, unless they have some super talented people with a passion for the project working for cheap.

    A lot of us are willing to make this concession or adjust expectations for an experience that has great gameplay, soundtrack, story, etc. as easily as reading subtitles to enjoy a foreign film. The imagination can do plenty of the heavy lifting.

    Duamerthrax,

    There’s a few indie titles that are developed by one person and maybe a handful of part timers or freelance people. Turbo Overkill and HROT(Single dev working is Pascal). Most of the time, the retro art style works to the design of the game. Ion Fury uses a opensource fork of the Build Engine(Duke Nuken 3d) and leans heavily into the 90’s idea of Cyberpunk and 90’s pop culture in general. Dusk is a Quake-like, but I had more immersion in the smooth gameplay then I would in a HD game where the hardware can’t keep up with the optimized graphics engine.

    Duamerthrax,

    Meh. Today’s realistic graphics is tomorrow’s retro graphics. If a game was fun ten years ago, it’s fun today. If it was only playable ten years ago because of the graphics, but isn’t it playable today, it wasn’t fun in the first place.

    Kill_joy,
    @Kill_joy@kbin.social avatar

    I would actually just settle for not pre ordering AAA games as a good place to start.

    AVengefulAxolotl,

    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)

    derpgon,

    The strategy to this is to buy so much crap on Steam and Humble Bundle that you don’t have time to pre-order AAA games.

    For example, I love Borderlands series, and I have so many games to play that I could easily wait for TTW to be on sale - lo and behold, 10 bucks in a Humble Monthly with all the DLCs, and extra 7 games with it aswell. Banger.

    H_Interlinked,
    @H_Interlinked@kbin.social avatar

    It baffles me how anyone can stand to preorder any game with the market being so oversaturated. There are SO MANY great games on a constant $20 or less sale rotation you'll probably never have a chance to play if you're a full-time working adult. I'm worried about grabbing a highly acclaimed title that's been out for 5 years before it fades into obscurity, and I have to stumble upon a shout-out 3 years later to be reminded of its existence. Not about some stupid launch skin bonus, or OST mp3s you'll never click open.

    Pyr_Pressure,
    @Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca avatar

    What defines AAA?

    Like, is baldurs gate AAA?

    Or just anything from EA, Ubisoft, etc.?

    verysoft, (edited )

    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

    H_Interlinked,
    @H_Interlinked@kbin.social avatar

    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.

    OneWomanCreamTeam,

    I still play AAA games occasionally, but I’ve enjoyed gaming so much more since I got more selective with them.

    ToTK was worthwhile, but even for the newest entry in my favorite series since childhood, (from a developer with a pretty good track record for their games) I still waited a week to see if any launch bugs needed to be ironed out.

    I can’t even remember the last AAA game I bought before that.

    corrupts_absolutely, do games w Underrail: Heavy Duty Trailer

    thats huge! excited for machine guns, but also hopefully this comes with firearm/other systems rebalance

    Tischkante, do games w The games industry sucks

    Also layoffs temporarily raise the stock price, it’s probably more costly in the long run… but who cares as long as the numbers go up for a bit and everyone gets bonuses.

    fosforus,

    who cares as long as the numbers go up for a bit

    Ironically, that’s the motivation with which I play many games.

    aesthelete, (edited )

    who cares as long as the numbers go up for a bit

    Especially when you’re mostly stock compensated. Just make the numbers go up long enough to see your share prices soar, browse around for a different job in the meantime. Sell your stocks at a high, exit the company as it implodes behind you. Rinse and repeat.

    lorty,
    @lorty@lemmygrad.ml avatar

    Then later they do big hiring sprees as part of investing in making bigger games, and stocks rise.

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