Comment on Report: Warner Bros. Execs Thought Suicide Squad Would Make A Ton Of Money Despite Development Woes
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It is amazing how out of touch someone can be with reality.
That’s WB in a nutshell.
They just put out a Smash Bros competitor with a ton of characters, voice acting, looked like it had a lot of promise.
…and it’s free-to-play. Which means it’s loaded with microtransactions.
Imagine being one of those guys who puts in all of this effort for a game that is doomed to fail.
And the worst is, the C-suites get to fuck shit up, reap massive bonuses, and never suffer any con-S-quences when inevitable their way of running the company causes shit like this to happen.
What reality though? Companies are trying now more than ever to release the shittest cheapest games they can for massive gains. We see more and more trash making insane money. The reality is the average person will play a shitty game for something to do especially if it’s within their interests. In this case it just happened to fail so WB will fire a bunch of people and try something again. It’s a learning experience in the sense that they know they gotta raise the bar for the next release but it won’t be anything substantial.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Most of the execs never tried their hands on a game including this one. They genuinely have no idea about the industry and thought they had a hit game on their hands based on a trailer or something. It‘s truly baffling yet so typical.
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
MBAs have no useful skills and yet they run every company in existence.
Hugin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When I was getting my engineering degree in the senior year we had some question and answer sessions with people from industry. The guy in class who thought he was way smarter than he was asked about going directly into an MBA program after graduation.
The industry guy said it was a terrible idea. Your engineering knowledge would be 2 years out of date and who knows if you would be a good manager. He said to get a job and get some experience. If you show promise as a leader a good company will offer to put you through a MBA program and you well have the real world experience to make the best of it.
So I think there is a real use for an MBA degree but only after some real world experience in your field and showing basic team leadership. People who go straight for an MBA tend to be the those who just want to boss people around and can’t handle real work.
krashmo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Exactly. I would say an MBA is only useful if your undergrad degree was in something other than business. It is meant to add management skills to an already skilled individual. If you don’t have any other skills it’s just an expensive piece of paper that, at least to me, signifies essentially the same thing as being the boss’s son would. You probably aren’t very good at anything but always think you’re the smartest person in the room.