Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• arudesalad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s a spinoff from titanfall, a series with a lot of cool world building, it would be a bit weird to have no story at all.

  It’s also a live service so they need to copy fortnite have an in game explanation for the updates

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• IronKrill@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No, they have “lore”: a bunch of 2 minute animations, vague plot points, and character bios that give just enough of a reason for their seasonal events to occur and for fans to drool over. Just like every other live service.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    While I feel sorry for her as a worker, I do not feel sorry for her as a writer.

    Live Service writing for AAA studios has got to be the most disposable form of fiction. I can find old short stories from magazines that closed close to a century ago, but I can’t play the Destiny series from start to finish today?

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