This is why we need to have 90 dollar games! /s
Apex is literally free to play
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TL,DR: Company fires hundreds of workers. CEO makes $25.6 million.
On the one hand it sucks that a writer lost their job. And it'll never not suck. On the other hand I love when Apex Legends looks bad. I lost Titanfall 3 for that?
In a better universe apex and tf3 could have existed at the same time
Unfortunately we live in the universe where games as a live service is the only model that big companies run on, which means all resources must go to just that one game
I hope these CEO's get their reckoning some way some day.
They seem to think it's all just business and cruelly wielding power is no issue, but I think they overestimate how isolated they are.
If we want them to receive a reckoning, it's on us, the working class, to force it to happen.
I don't think they will receive a reckoning, but their children might.
It's especially disgusting when we realize rich people are setting their children up to inherit a world where everyone hates them for being rich from exploitation.
They won't get any kind of reckoning that we'll understand. They're rich, powerful, and insulated from pain. They've all got golden parachutes via their weaselly networks. There will be no karma, unfortunately.
Apex has a story?
No, they have "lore": a bunch of inconclusive and loosely connected animation shorts, vague plot points, and character bios that give just enough of a reason for their seasonal events to occur and for fans to drool over. Just like every other live service.
While I feel sorry for her as a worker, I do not feel sorry for her as a writer.
Live Service writing for AAA studios has got to be the most disposable form of fiction. I can find old short stories from magazines that closed close to a century ago, but I can't play the Destiny series from start to finish today?
It's a spinoff from titanfall, a series with a lot of cool world building, it would be a bit weird to have no story at all.
It's also a live service so they need to ~~copy fortnite~~ have an in game explanation for the updates
This is why they need to unionize.
This isn't unique to the gaming industry, this is capitalism writ large
Not just unionizing, but getting legislation put forward and passed that protects workers' rights.
Yeah this would be completely illegal in a lot of countries.
You need to either make the position redundant and then you cant hire anyone for 9months or you show 3 separates instances where they failed to meet the job requirements and were notified. You can't just fire people for the fuck of it.
I cannot wrap my head around why the game industry hasn't already unionised massively—I hear horror story after horror story and everyone working in the industry seems to have convinced themselves they're special and it won't happen to them
It’s called “a decades long campaign to erode trust and even awareness of unions by corporate business interests”.
I’m sure it will get a lot worst with AI bs.
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Bullshit like this is why our industry is a mess, Nintendo may be greedy fucks but their code is good because the same dudes have been working there since the fucken 80s.
I think a lot of what comes out of Japan is better than the West because they haven't given up their idea of the company man.
Like it or not, having to switch jobs every few years is going to impact your performance.
Most of you have no idea how much easier it is to process information when you accept that you'll be doing it the same way for decades.
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In Japan, the barrier to firing workers is much higher than in many other places. Even layoffs for financial reasons are tough and can be challenged. This is one reason companies sit on hordes of cash here is to weather financial issues, but it also has negative economic impacts as well. That said, Nintendo are a bunch of greedy cunts IMO, and I try never to buy anything new from them anymore (just buying used where they don't get a cut).
In the US the barrier to firing workers is much lower than in other countries. Even layoffs for purely arbitrary or personal reasons are easy and hard to challenge in courts. This is one of the reasons companies have little free capital and choose to lay off many workers as soon as the market looks to be turning. But it also has positive economic impacts as well. That said, EA are a bunch of greedy cunts, and I try never to buy anything new from them anymore (just buying used where they don't get a cut, if they released any games worth owning).
I mean, if you want to emulate a corporate ethos, I don't think Japan should be the benchmark, either...
Their crunch culture is def bad (they’re going to kill Sakurai one day), but there is quite a few things they do right. They don’t lay people off and their executives take accountability. Iwata took a significant pay cut when the Wii U flopped.
They can't lay people off, so they just put them in a room with no work to do until they get so bored that they quit. It's the same thing but different.
Whatever you do, please don't throw me in the ~~briar patch~~ boredom room!
I’ll take my chances with the boredom room.
forreal I write as a hobby and I spend as much free time at work sticking it to the boss by writing lol. if they literally handed me a room with little stimuli and let me bring my notebook in I'd be living
Just making sure you realize the company would have the copyright for anything you create while on the clock....
"Fuck, well, publish it as another light novel. I'm sure they'll quit soon."
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Exactly, I would start taking naps and watch movies. You can't bore or shame me into quitting, the second I know it's a game, I will be breaking a b**** lol
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