I mean they also created a ton of jobs and it‘s not like devs working on single player games don‘t face layoffs and bonuses fraud. Besides Overwatch 2 killed Overwatch already.
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RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Live service garbage has costed the industry billions in losses and costed tens of thousands of devs their jobs. Fad chasing in general.
Everyone wants to make the fortnite killer or overwatch killer. They set billions of dollars on fire and get nothing for it. And it’s the devs who pay the price. Not the c-suite dipshits who threw all that money in the fire pit.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 5 days ago
SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee 5 days ago
tons of jobs
speaks as they try to replace everyone with AI except for the management suite.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Way to make a truly bad faith argument or perhaps you are lost or something. To clarify: Are you implying it‘s any different for AAA SP games? Because that’s the discussion here.
RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Real Spiderman points at Spiderman moment here.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Please phrase your thoughts in a way everyone can understand and if possible a little less mockingly? What is it that you have a problem with exactly?
rigatti@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I mean, the money does go somewhere. People get paid while the game is being developed. It’s just that the investors don’t get the ROI.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yes, but then their lives are often uprooted, since the entire existence of their job was based on a bad bet.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
But an exec gets a new yacht or a new classic car so a lot of good comes out of it…