Comment on I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job
Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
And the funny thing is, the company isn’t even doing bad. I found out from a friend who still works there that they are aiming for a sale at the end of the year, so effectively this is a way for them to pump up the stock. They will say their profits went up by 50-60%, but it didn’t come from more clients, but from not paying wages. And this way stock go up. Also same friend said they are struggling a lot with AI. It can be helpful with coding, but It can’t do everything, and they are literally asking it to do everything or at least hold long enough until the sale goes trough . Just greed… and hundreds of families put in a bad spot, so already rich people on top can make a lot of money fast instead of also a lot of money, but slower…
I’ve been on the receiving end of “making the bride look good” for selling the company too, 3 times in my life. Either you still have a job but everything around you falls apart because there aren’t enough people to keep shit running, or you lose the job; both variants suck. I always was on the team “keeping my job”, but it also always ended with me fleeing as soon as i could because working conditions deteriorated fast.
Wishlisted your game !
Thank you! We actually had a few changes in ownership before, but it didn’t really impacted us. This time the current ownership got real greedy!
Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
Well, on the bright side, at least this teaches you the real value of AI is that it tells people what products to avoid:
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If it wasn’t AI it would be something else though. Working for the man always sucks.
We will watch your career with great interest
Road_Warrior_10@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Thank you!
jorm1s@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
If you really want to sell the no gen AI thing, you might want to consider cleaning up the steam page translations. For example the finnish translation contains these lines:
which roughly translate to:
Personally I don’t mind AI being used for the store page translations, and I can see how easy it is to make a mistakes like that, but maybe anyone reading that would get a slightly better impression of the game without those extra bits.