it would be such a wasted opportunity for them to jump straight into bed with some other cunt capitalist whos just gonna pull the same shit, rather than forming a worker cooperative and ensuring if they do well theyll be rewarded with money and security.
Comment on Laid off idTech developers are starting their own studio: Hidden Horses
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
And now, free from corporate shackles they’ll be free to make some actual interesting innovative games again. These innovative games will probably sell well, attracting attention of larger companies who will buy the new gaming studio. Said larger company will churn out generic sequels while slowly firing all the old talent. As the quality diminishes and the formulaic slop they’re now making stops selling, the big company will fire everyone and close down the studio. Many of those fired devs will get together and form a new game studio and start publishing interesting games…
erinyes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
I mean, innovative isnt a guarantee when leaving a company.
Lets not forget the devs who wanted an employee owned game after apex legends to form the game we know as Highguard.
aksdb@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Since they make money off of this, it doesn’t even seem too bad, if you put it like that.
HiddenHorses@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Hopefully we can stop that cycle by skipping the “larger companies […] will buy the new gaming studio” step. We just want to make games. We’re not doing this to get rich.