The gaming industry is truly messed up…

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• mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  overpaid.lol

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• GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Financially BF6 was a smash hit.

  Within a month of release it was a disaster. Player base plummeted because of the bait and switch they pulled, the bugs, and the lacklustre season passes, skins, and roadmap. One of the all time fumbles.

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  • foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And yet, people bought it. I may sound like an old fart, but Battlefield hadnt been good since BF2/20142. BF3 was a bait and switch where they said it was a return to PC focused gaming and not just a console port (was a console port), and they’ve been doing it ever since.

    Even if you disagree with me and enjoyed the midlife BF, you have to admit the last few have been dumpsters. EA is a dumpster company, we all know this. Why ever give them the benifit of the doubt?

    The reason is people are stupid (on average) and the concept of an informed consumer base (or electorate) is a fallacy. For every 1 person who says fuck EA there are 3 people that don’t care and 6 that aren’t paying enough attention for an opinion on the subject to even cross their mind. Advertising is the only thing that matters in this reality and they know it.

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• Eternal192@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  CEO that did fuck all gets a shit ton of money as a reward for doing fuck all and those that actually worked on the game with overtime and underpaid got the middle finger, makes perfect sense.

  People need to stop working for these shitty “AAA” companies even if it’s to have it on their resume and idiots need to stop buying these games just so they can say they played every game in the series.

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• TheGoldenV@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder if after the midterms the incident rate of factory and warehouse fires will rise?

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  • ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Surprised game devs aren’t going all office space at this point.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      How is beating the shit out of a copy machine supposed to help? /s

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  • Ariselas@piefed.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Except here, the warehouse, is in cloud infrastructure with international redundancy. It would take a hell of a team of hackers to burn that down.

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• rustyfish@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Today I found out people still buy these stupid games. Wtf?!

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Capitalism is messed up - ftfy

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  • mycodesucks@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah… game development layoffs are highly visible to us because game development is a high visibility, closely watched industry to obsessive nerds, but this is happening all the time in all kinds of industries.

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• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The big studios keep giving me reasons to never ever buy one of their games and not even pirate them.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  seems gaming is fcked, especially people graduating from college trying to get in as a designer/dev too.

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• Smaile@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Make your own games Devs, only way to brake your chains

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• sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t even know what I would do with that much money.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Retire?

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    • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d buy a house, swt up a retirement fund and pay a bunch of politicians to support green energy.

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    • sidebro@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I could retire twice over for that amount of money and I’d still have most of it left

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