Comment on The games industry sucks
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year agoI 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@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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 the 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@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah I live in a country where pretty much everyone is unionised. What I described is standard here. It could be over there too.