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Devs, pay attention to who is actually, practically offering support to our laid off colleagues. It’s not the companies, it’s not the ESA, it’s the union, it’s us.

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

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I don't see how this gets better without shifting to co-op owned studios or strong unionization, it's obscene

PC Gamer@pcgamer.com · 7d ago

Despite its success, Electronic Arts rewarded some of those who made Battlefield 6 by laying them off. It's a different story for EA CEO Andrew Wilson.

THEY TALKED TO THE COMPUTER IN STAR TREK BEACUSE ITS A *TV SHOW* AND YOU CANT HEAR WHAT SOMEONE IS TYPING NOT BEACUSE IT IS GOOD UX

Jay Tholen@jaytholen.net · 2w ago

one of those things that was cool in star trek but absolutely sucks now that it's real

This is exactly what I’m talking about. If every game is late and over budget than obviously budgets and timetables are elaborate theater covering up a production process that is unmanaged chaos. it is insane to think that it cannot be structurally improved in a way that makes our lives more stable

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · last mo.

FWIW I think it's a little strange that "Arkane's Blade is late and over budget" is becoming a lingering news story when the total number of big video games that were *not* late and over budget could be counted on one hand

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

Saying we should all go back to physical media I think misses the point. I actually *like* buying games and movies digitally for a bunch of reasons. What we need is better consumer protections so the things we do buy digitally are actually owned and companies cant delete/revoke access!

is anyone out here actually good at stewarding videogame teams and budgets or is proper games management a unicorn

it seems very strange to me to deprecate blueprints, after everyone including epic lauded E33 so hard, a game that is mostly made in blueprint it's a great system that enables "non coders" to code why are we throwing it out

Its just this meme over and over again. STOP BUYING STUDIOS TO CLOSE THEM

The news will be like this just in! One guy has all of the money. Truly astonishing In other news, where has all the money gone? And why are young people not earning or spending like they used to? Join us at 11 as experts weigh in on these two unrelated questions

SailorSoapbox 💙@sailorsoapbox.com · 2mo ago

We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.

That's part of the broken social contract that I don't think the no-take-only-throw-ass economics overlords don't get. I now see any funds I have as my only defense against indiscriminate predation. I have figured out you will kill me and drain my corpse.

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

This could be business casual if we even gave a shit

i think generally you shouldn't let other people decide whether or not you make art. they might influence how, or what resources you have to work with, but whether or not you're going to try at all should be an internal decision. don't let the bastards get you down

Anna 🌿👁️@annacwebs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Good, and very important lil thread. I had people telling me "don't try to get into game narrative" when I was a jr and times in the industry were GOOD. Trust me, I understand feeling angry with the industry but telling people this kind of thing is both deeply unhelpful and makes you seem sus.

what more can be said

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tim Curry is 80 today, say something nice about Tim Curry

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Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 5mo ago

'EA has laid off an unknown number of individuals from across its Battlefield teams, including workers at Criterion, Dice, Ripple Effect, and Motive Studios' - part of a "realignment" across the Battlefield studios www.ign.com/articles/ea-...

in no particular order

David Lindsey Pittman@dphrygian.com · 5mo ago

Surprising no one, my9games.com

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

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mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources

in a just world we get inside job season 2 after this