Sexist you assumed it was about gender.

Private equity is the death knell to any brand. For example Joanne’s was sold to private equity. I’ve worked for companies owned by private equity, they are there to extract every last cent for themselves while the brand is whittled away. Any cent that would be invested is instead given to the investors so they can buy new Audis and boats.

I’m not saying EA didn’t deserve it, but this is for sure the end of EA as we’ve ever known it

I feel every word of this, friend. Everything would have been great if they had just let the writers wrote the damn story. Too busy trying not to offend anyone that instead we got the most boring bland vanilla game out there.

It makes total sense to me, having being a corporate drone for over a decade now. It should be obvious to them but they’re too far up their own asses to see it. Any good idea is going to have some middle manager squash it because they don’t like it. You can have the most interesting feature or idea ever, and even if you push it for months - make presentations, evangelize it, get people on your side, you will still have some jerkass too many levels above you that you’ve maybe sat in one meeting with before say “Nah, I don’t think we have the capacity for that”. So yeah, I don’t see how corporations can think they can make meaningful games.

In a small company, or even a garage you know how things get “approved”? They say “Hey maybe we should do this” and the other person says “Oh holy shit that’s an amazing idea, yes do that!”.

The market for new video games isn’t just oversaturated — it’s nearly impenetrable. Teams of hundreds of people are spending years of their lives developing games that are destined to get lost in the sea of new releases.

Yeah, let’s take one that didn’t get lost. Dragon Age 4. A game that I personally had been watching and waiting for a release for 7 years since it was first teased, 11 years since the last installment. According to “traditional” ways to make games it had everything going for it. A ton of development time, marketing galore, a major studio behind it, releasing on all major platforms - aaaand it flopped. Why did it flop? According to businessmen who pretend to know gamers it should have been a wonderful success!

Except they obviously killed every creative idea that could have gone into that game. We got the most boring, bland experience out of any of the Dragon Age franchise. We got flat characters with no personality, we got no choices in the game, no real consequences to our actions, and what things they did stick the stake in the ground they browbeat you with zero nuance at all. Every line of dialogue was obviously decided by corporate committee and spoke like what I would expect to hear in an all-hands meeting instead of from someone who was supposedly my companion.

The games that did do well in the franchise? They were risque. They had choices. You could fuck up the entire world if you made bad choices. You’d have characters in your own group leave because they didn’t like what you were doing. Entire groups of people could be in peril because you made a bad choice. Saying yes to one group would undoubtedly piss off another group. Those installments didn’t care if they offended someone because “What if someone goes down this path and chooses this then gets a bad ending” - they did it because it’d make a great game.

Maybe the suits at the top need to finally realize that businesses don’t make great games - creative people do, and just get the fuck out of their way and let them make games.

Thank you for letting me vent, this came out much longer than I expected, you can tell I’m really done with suits making games and acting all shocked that they aren’t doing well

I don’t know a single gamer who would say “Yup, too much, I am not looking forward to any sequel or new game on the horizon”. It’s that they keep releasing corporate committee-approved boring drivel that doesn’t even function on release, then getting pissy that no one likes purchasing their 1000 subscriptions and addons.

I would much rather have a delay on airpods if it means they can work with any device I choose to use.

There is a weighting applied to the community size. Since we’re smaller a community that’s popular could dominate the feed and smaller communities wouldn’t be seen for pages, which hurt getting the word out about them.

If you prefer if that way it’s still there, check out Hot and Active for things you may be used to, Scaled is the one I’m referring to which most instances have set as their default.

I heard a good line after finishing college that would have been better, and hopefully will help someone here.

Minor in what you live, major in what will get you a job.

I think that’s much better advice. Chances are you won’t enjoy your work, but with a minor you could do something like minor in art or history, but major in business or something. Then you may not be doing exactly what you want, but maybe you can be adjacent to it.

Like maybe you have to be an accountant, but maybe you could be an accountant for a museum. Think of all the accountants out there who have no knowledge of the items in the museum, now think of how much more employable you could be if you said you were an accountant but you minored in art.

Thanks for this. A lot of people here are saying just delete it, but I’m the professional world it is quite literally where you may get you job. The vast majority of mine have been because of LinkedIn.

Thank you! I mod the Taylor Swift community here on Lemmy, and I was like “what is the most Lemmy way to rep Taylor Swift”, and it just came to me

As an aside I live your username

If there are none, press “Ship”

This is the truth. You can still do it, but it sucks so much more now compared to 10 years ago, and continues to trend down. The positive is that the AI hype is normalizing, with the real limitations kicking in. Still, I’m planning my tech exit. Trying to figure out where I need to be so I can go do something else. Not to mention corporate life is draining me

Yeah hate to say it but I think aromantic was a way for her not to feel guilty about it.

They had a data breach

I’m honestly surprised it was allowed to air, that Disney didn’t pull the plug.

Yeah we were just in the market a year or so ago and I thought this was cool for about a second before I realized what this would be used for. It’s just advertising straight into your kitchen, as you are grabbing food. It’s the perfect place for them to advertise. Any lack of advertisements was always going to be temporary.

Plus honestly what is the actual use for it? Just put a tablet on the counter if you want a screen in there

Leave a tip and also some documentation on how to start a union

Okay but if there isn’t a guy living out of a car with three doors, one hauling shopping carts, and an assistant trailer park supervisor/cheeseburger prostitute then I don’t even care.