Are you happy now?
No, that number needs to be much higher.
Those are rookie numbers. We gotta pump those numbers up
>>737789186>Switch 2 controllerThe irony is that Nintendo never fires anyone ever. Except subcontracted betatester in the West, but Westerners aren't human.
Not yet.
>>737789186Oh well.
>Industry massively over-hires during COVID>Industry cuts back headcount’s to where they would have been anyway >AAAAAAAAAAH THE INDUSTRY IS CRASHING!
This has nothing to do with the economy, we are not in a recession, no siree, everything is ok goy.
>>737789186no, it's not nearly enough
>>737789186>one thirdit needs to be 75% at the very least and then maybe i will be satisfied
>>737789186>>737789207>>737789247>>737789340>>737789348You're not going to get the amazing non-woke games you want, the competent people got fired too. Enjoy gacha and live service forever. It's the 2008 writer's strike over again
>nintendo literally the only major publisher who isn't laying people off>use a nintendo product as the picture for your article about videogame layoffs
>>737789581If they can't give me what I want, then they should burn
Kill PlaystationFuck ShawarmaMarry Nintendo
>>737789581Then the AAA industry can burn to the fucking ground and we'll gladly salt the ashes with our piss, you doomer faggot.
>>737789249>>737789592Nintendo is the face of the entire video game industry
>>737789581Ok but if the choices are>you won't get the games you want and faggot developers are gloating about it on social mediaand>you won't get the games you want and the developers lose their jobsI want the latter to happen just out of spite. If the industry doesn't cater to me then it can crash for all I care.
>>737789207fpbp
>>737789581I can't force them to make good games.
>>737789832Well now there won't be any games at all.
>>737789869There's more than enough great games already made to enjoy for an entire lifetime.
>>737789186>mfw
>>737789936You'll get bored of this like two, three years in tops. Then you'll spend all your time here talking about how nothing good is made anymore.
>>737789186Industry workers that realistically never should have (or even would have, without certain initiative programs) been hired in the first place.
>>737790064indies exist and are simply better than AAAAA games. Total investor, board member, and CEO portfolio death.
>>737789581The competent people making the games I want aren't in America
>>737789186look at that fucking disgusting thing he's holding in his hands. dios mio...
>>737789340You can kinda see this philosophy with their older games, starting with kotor.
>>737790064I've been playing retro games for ten years and there are entire consoles I still haven't touched. You can play the same game more than once before moving on bro, backlogs aren't real.
>>737789581Don't worry, I don't play American games anymore
>>737789186No, I want video games only being made by lonely autists and groups of geeks. Anything less than the total and complete dissolution of Western AAA gaming is considered a failure when it comes to saving vidya.
>>737789531it should be 300%
>>737789186Not my fault their leaders failed to organize their teams well and ended up blowing 150 million making something with less content than a 30 million budget game.
>>737789186>Are you happy now?No, it is not enough. THREE MORE THIRDS!
>>737789581Exactly, you made everything shit, we have nothing to lose. Burn, loser.
>>737789581too late to apologize. i stopped caring after the ps2 died
>>737789581the most sour grapes post I've seen in a long time, bravo
>>737789186>Not 100%No
>>737789186>no mention of mass gravesNot even close.
>>737789762It's more like whenever there's bad news, they put a picture associated with Nintendo. When there's good news, they put something associated with Sony.
>>737789207FPBP
>>737789581reply, faggot
>>737789207Fpbp. Only a crash & reset is acceptable
>>737789581>the competent people got fired too.Most of them left the industry over a decade ago.>>737790064>You'll get bored of this like two, three years in topsHow does one get bored of all this?
>>737789581>the competent people got fired tooThe competent people left the industry long ago. New competent people do indie shit nowadays.AAA has been code monkeys and bad writers that could not get a gig anywhere else for years.
>>737789581Good. Modern games fucking suck. I always go back SNES, GCN, PS1, and PS2 games.
>>737794279>no PC-98
>>737789207Endlessly based
>>737789340>maybe they were right well, well, well
>>737789186Not really, no. Has nothing to do with them being fired though. I'll just be happy when The West makes good games again instead of corporate cashgrabs and wokeslop. If 1 person got fired and games got better, I would be happy. If it takes 90% of them, I'll be happy then too. I'm just tired of utter dogshit mainstream games. I've pretty much exclusively played indies for years now. They've always been in the rotation, but over time they took up more and more playtime til I just stopped buying AAA/AAAA games altogether, because they were always incredibly disappointing, formulaic, safe, and unfun, but especially so in contrast to the indies that are 1/2-1/5 the price, 1/10th the install size, and I get more enjoyment out of.So am I happy? I don't know. Are good games coming out if the west again? When they are, then I'll be happy.
>>737789186>amerigoys don't have rightsNot my problem.
>>737789263GO TO THE BATHROOM
>>737789186I've never been happy.
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>>737789581But I am getting them, it's just the amerimutt slop that's dying.
>>737789186Why did they use a Switch 2 picture when Nintendo didn't have a mass layoff since forever?
So what's the deal with ameribros hating unions and anything related to worker rights?
>>737789592Obviously to distract you from the many developer studios that Playstation has shut down or """"""""""downsized""""""""" since 2020.
>>737789581Nah I don't think I will
>>737789186Is this because product quality (&overall economy) are tanking?No no, must be AI revolution.
>>737796447The good goy never goes against his master
>purvey soulless, creativity devoid slop>get treated like a soulless, creativity devoid, slop purveyorApropoo, piss-à-pee, cacacurrently.
>>737789581>Enjoy gacha and live service forever."Enjoy" become a pastime exclusively pandering to gambling addicts and obese paedophiles suffering from micro-penis.
>>737789186>Are you happy now?Not yet, need to get those numbers up a bit more.
>>737789186I'm sorry, I should have bought harder.
>>737789581>You're not going to get the amazing non-woke games you wantAnd you're not going to get the money you want.
>>737789186How the hell is this the consumers fault? This is absolutely their employer's decision making.
>>737796447Every American is a sociopathic money worshiperTell him X will make his theoretical ability to become a millionaire and retire like royalty even 0.001% harder and he'll hate it more than sin itself
>>737789581All I play are indie games, and those are never compromised.
>>737789207Fpbp, unironically this.
>>737796447That ship sailed long ago, why would i want to give the people i hate unions and workers rights? Bring in all the people who can actually make good games and then we'll talk unions.
>>737789207fippy bippy
>>737789186NOT ENOUGH
>one third of us video game industry workershow many h-1b visas is that
>>737789186>one third was laid offThe U S. gaming industry will always be pozzed until the other two thirds are found and purged as well. Nothing less that a clean install will fix the rot.
>>737789186Many other jobs were lost in USA due to them chimping out.
>>737789186>fuckton of unemployed wagies went to GDC of all placesthis is just not a smart thing to do no matter how you slice it, even disregarding the constant feast-or-famine hiring strategies in burgerland
>>737789249They used the Switch2 intentionally to try and push the idea its the Switch2's fault, despite being the reason the decline is staved off and not even more severe.Complete kike move.
>>737789581antiwhiteism is losing.You lost faggot
>>737789207kek this
>>737789186I need more
With proprietary engines and AI, the gap between indie and AAA is rapidly closing so the development time will be less spent on technical aspects and more on hand crafted content
>>737789186
>>737789186Sounds great.But then I think about what sector of industry these bad players will infect next, and wonder if it may have an effect on infrastructure, and I am filled with dread.
>>737789186>Hire untold amounts of people over Covid , just because>surprised when you don’t need them anymore because people are back to real lifeGod these CEO’s are dumb fucks
>>737804061Worry not, "video game industry workers" count very few people with any sort of transferable skills.Artfags are in a perpetual state of commissioned work, as very few studios keep dedicated creatives on-site. Same for marketers, lawyers, and people who are only temporarily involved with vidya production cycles, and thus have experience elsewhere. Backend programmers might be a decently competent bunch, if only because they are responsible for very complex systems that are really demanding on hardware. I guess testers are useful for all software, though that shit constantly got outsourced even in better days.The rest of "workers" were locked into proprietary workflows, or narrow game engines, or some incoherent design/analytics/consultancy positions. You've got nothing to fear from their inadequacy, for they are likely to be inadequate enough to even cheat through interviews.
>>737804646I suppose when you put it that way, it really is that simple. I have just had it in my head that if these idiots somehow managed to get a job in this sector, clearly so inexperienced and incompetent that it makes you wonder how they even got in at all, then they could somehow play ball in any court so to speak.
>>737789207Very based
>>737789186>>737789207it's a start
>>737789207Yup.
Being let go now, anyone else?I'm glad I lasted as long as I did, six year streak. Going to be able to pay off the rest of the mortgage with the severance it looks like. I've got no idea what to do now with my BA guess I'm just fucked.
>>737790064There's already nothing good made, and I realistically haven't even played half the games released before 2007
>>737789207Sir, the Based Department is on the line. They want to talk to you.
>>737789186making room for H1-Bs
>>737789186No. About 1995-2005 Americans were God tier at making games, especially for PC. Now I don't think they've made anything great in a decade. They need to fire them all, and every publicly traded video game developer needs to go under. The twisted American game development needs to be reset.
