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Oh no! What happened to all the black women that were supposed to start gaming because they were finally getting representation?
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>>741846657
>wonderful years
>wonderful years
>wonderful years
why do most of them say that? also I like how only one of them names the game they worked on
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>>741846649
Had they stuck with the initial red headed Southern belle the game would have sold a lot more. Very stupid decision to change the MC, but I guess the Blackrock loan paid their salaries for a few years.
>>741846657
>get fired
>beg for work on your ex-employer's platform
LinkedIn is pure humiliation. Yjk Satya's jeets are reading these posts and laughing.
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Well that game sucked so no wonder they got kicked out.
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>>741846649
>>741846657
It's actually wild how they managed to stay untouched for so long.
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>>741847105
Because they got payed handsomely for staying in an adult daycare.
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>>741846657
Lmao all of them opening with corpocringe. The absolute state of the goyim.
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>>741846649
>want to write an article on this hot button issue
>have no source but have heard a rumor
>desperately need the clicks
>REPORTEDLY
>SOURCES SAY
>SOME PEOPLE
>COULD
>ACCORDING TO A CONFIDENTIAL
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>>741847105
>>741847105
Because it's presumably linked in, where people can also openly say the dev they worked under was absolute fucking shit.
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South of Midnight was pretty good
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is that the game with the smug brownette protagonist that ran at 20 fps to look artistic
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>>741846649
>>741846657
>the copy pasted twatter statements made with the hr template
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>>741847338
Yeah. You could turn it off though and have it only for the cutscenes since they wanted it to look like a stop-motion puppet film.
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>>741847105
you're not allowed to be even slightly negative in the corporate world, unless it's completely agreed upon by the herd. Else you risk getting shadow-banned/blackballed
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>>741847336
>nigger collecting magic cotton
you can't make this shit up
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>>741847181
I remember thinking We Happy Few would be like Bioshock when I first saw the trailer, instead it was some shitty survival crafting game with a bit of narrative thrown in.
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>>741847105
Because you don't want to get blacklisted by every publisher (who don't want to hear you crying when they laid off your ass)..
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>>741847413
pussy
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imagine making a stop motion game and then reversing it last minute because you realize nobody wants to play a game at 5 fps
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>>741847447
Whoa! This discussion is getting pretty heated, I suggest a cool-down period, so we can both reflect on how we could better approach uncomfortable situations like this in the future!
Best of luck out there!
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>>741847274
Corporate drones aren't even aware, they just stress their life away
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>>741847501
nigger
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OK, but will this result in better games?
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I resent how all of these white collar layabouts do not ever go take a resume and apply, they just Twitter post their credentials all day until someone hands them work. And this piece of shit has property in a big expensive city.

I wish I could find them, gun them down, and take their shit. Fuck their dogshit liberal arts degrees.
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>>741847530
Yes
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>>741847539
That isn't twitter you retard. No wonder you're so animalistically angry at everything.
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I want more niggers and ugly women in my games. I hope they keep making them.
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>>741846657
What kind of third world name is Bijan?
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>>741847769
They willl, don't worry they will! They will also continue doing layoffs because no one actually wants those in their games. eheh XD it's a fun cycle that generates poverty, you know? Socialism works.
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>pick cotton to level up
this was such a progressive idea for a black protag, wonder why it didn't sell
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>>741847338
it's a stupid decision
the characters don't even look like puppets and no matter how cool you think fake stop motion looks it's going to be annoying in a video game
guy who came up with the ideo must not have played very many video games
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>>741846901
These studios all got comfy with the ~2010-2022 explosive growth where money in game industry was literally free. Venture capitalists withdrawing and the era of zero interest loans ending has ended those times for good.
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>3D Platformer
>Colourful environment
>Cartoony characters
>Both have a Banjo in it
>Phil: Let's go with the one on the right! You can have 7 whole years to make it as well!
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>>741848086
>anon thinks that Phill did any managing whatsoever
lol, lmao even
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>>741848086
>>741848197
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>>741848086
Honestly I didn't mind it, but it definitely needed to have better gameplay, and more to it. I think if it was more of an action rpg with a party and adventuring in the mythical south it could have done better.
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>>741846657
I'll take Shelby Dela Cruz as my wife please~ Now go make me a sandwich woman!
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>>741847909
I want them because it's funny to see money burn.
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>>741847723
What platform is this then?
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>>741847105
>why do most of them say that?
because all of those summaries are written by gpt as recommended by their soulless hr demon lord.
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>>741847985
>pick cotton to level up
I’ve never played this awful game ,are they really that racist?
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>>741848496
Linkedin which is specifically for job networking.
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>>741848496
Worse, it is Li*kedIn
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>>741848556
It's that dei flavor of racism where they are just too retarded to notice they basically pol meme posting. Black girls character is "likes running" she visits bayou wonderland by drowning, fights with crochet needles, finishing the hives gives me abortion vibes, and after defeating the bosses you put them in a bottle and hang them from a tree.
Also you literally sell your granny to the devil.
Don't play it tho, it's first and foremost a really bad and boring game that feels like an early ps2 budget title besides gfx
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>>741848575
>job networking
industrial espionage
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>>741848503
shameful
HR speak is bad enough, but LLM generated HR speak is on another level of dogshit
I'm convinced at some point in the future it'll be considered a good thing to swear and use slang because at least then you know a human wrote the message
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>>741848503
Kek this is just trolling lmso
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>>741846657
>#opentowork
is this a new humiliation ritual?
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>>741848575
Yeah, then my post is retarded. I need to cool down.
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>>741848503
>Draft me.. A vision
Lmao
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>>741846657
Sad thing is they'll all be hired by other game studios and be paid hundreds of thousands a year to make more trash games
In a just world these people would be working at mcdonalds
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>>741848503
AI is going to grow up and have the absolute lowest opinion of its parents
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>>741849346
I work with the people that would invest in such a thing and lemme tell you, those days are over. These workers best bet is to make a small game with a small self-funded team and get it on Steam/App Store ASAP and then lever the revenue no matter how small. Zero appetite for multiyear projects rn
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>>741849346
Fuck off retard. Working at McDonald's is a real job that provides value and hard enough without babysitting washed up "game dev" filth that have never worked a day in their lives. If anything they should all start working where YOU work, see how you like that, you bitch.
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They will be rehired by another studio to pump out for DEI propaganda that will flop, and the cycle will repeat.
The gaming industry is fake
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>>741848503
If ai ever becomes self aware, it's going torture and kill these types first.
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>>741846657
>3 useless nepo-hire "idea guys"
>One texture artist.
Oh woe is me what great talent we lost today.
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>>741846649
All 4 of those seem to be completely useless jobs from what they type themself? Like the only one worth a bit is the voice over but xbox has that many times over already.
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>>741848378
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>>741847181
7 fucking years
I really thought SOM was a small low budget game they did on the side while making a big game but apparently that was all they did?
???
I liked the game but come the fuck on.
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It took them 5 years to make this game. (New Vegas was made in 18 months). The game was out for over a year but it never went had a bigger sale than 25% off. They knew it barely had any sales. It was also never bundled for like Humble Monthly for some extra cash. tt's like they wanted the game to fail.
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>6 years of forcing a bunch of whites and asians to make a game about a nigger savior

i actually watched one of my friends play this for about 2 hours. imagine being the one putting "responsible for south of midnights dialogue" on your resume
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>>741846649
Teaching that jeeta how to flush was a mistake
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>>741846649
JUSTICE
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>>741849874
>redditspacing cuckchair beta thinks it's people
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>>741848197

Phil Spencer earned millions of dollars a year by doing absolutely nothing. Let that sink in for a minute.
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Jobless Indian teenage psychopaths cheer at american industry being gutted i hate this faggot board kill yourselves
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>>741850103
As far as I recall his career progression was literally just working various email jobs and organizing meetings, and he got into positions of authority purely out of office politics and seniority. Phil is a white collar corporate hang around incarnate.
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I won´t accept anything below a studio shutdown.
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>>741850192
We kill your gay industry first.
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>>741846649
Why did they ditch the original design and went with a stereotype looking "Angry Hood negress" character?
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>>741847985
I thought you were joking, but looking into it the game has these things called "floof" and they drop in bundles.
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>>741848378
KeK
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>>741850284
>angry hood negresses are a demographic that does not play video games
>that means that they are untapped demographic and therefore the only reasonable target audience for GROWTH
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>>741848556
>>741848902
Why was there no woke outcry about this?
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>>741850284
>Original design
Please provide an image of said original design.
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>>741846649
What is that obsession with that shit ass vidya cover style like avowed?
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>>741849570
>Working at McDonald's is a real job that provides value
No it is not you fucking service economy tranny. Start building stuff and not being a service leech for a second.
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>>741846649
Excellent
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>>741850789
Service is the circuses and building is the bread, you're a real fucking tool regardless.
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>>741850534
>original design
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>>741850534
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>>741849570
>>741850789
Welcome home
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>>741846649
the great video game purge is beginning
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When will these dead weights understand they are in the entertainment industry?
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>>741850281
Why don't you guys have a website where you can speak in your own language
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>>741846649
>Put indian in charge
>Mass layoffs
>Sudden influx of international hires
Wow
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I played a few seconds of that garbage game. I couldn't even leave the house before getting bored.
The quips were annoying as fucking Hell, and the gameplay was boring.
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>>741849791
Onimusha series took that time to be developed and in no way SOM is even closer to be that good. WTF.
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>>741850916
>>741850986
Interesting. Thank you.
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>>741846649
have repeatedly begun esl
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>>741851838
>Onimusha
I played the demo for Onimusha 2026.
This game is incredibly boring.
The enemy AI is rubbish, and the combat is very easy.
Who on earth is Capcom trying to sell a game like this to?
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>You have to listen to this black womyn heavy metal band or else you da racis
Imagine they did what they do to videogames to other mediums
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>>741852070
>boring
>bad AI
>very easy
Sounds like they are selling it to modern day Capcom fans.
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>>741852070
Well, I won't touch any modern game until the inevitable crash. However, the original series is really good. The concept of OG resident evil but in medieval Japan was really good.
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>Phil spencer gives Xbox devs 10 years, unlimited budget and free creativity to make whatever they wanted

You can only blame the devs themselves for wasting their one chance at making a great game.
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>>741847420
you're not the only one
it was a general consensus that it would be a like a Bioshock but the devs really wanted that procedurally generated survival crafting sim
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>>741846649
Capitalism baby. Fire people while putting all your money on AIslop
Praise the profit margin!
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>>741852384
>You can only blame the devs themselves for wasting their one chance at making a great game.
I really liked HiFirush, but Microsoft decided to sell it off.
That company simply has no taste.
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>>741852521
apparently it was the decision of the person running the zenimax side, which clearly made a huge mistake so they made up for it by selling hifirush IP to the koreans that bought the devs.
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>>741852427
>Firing useless people that only produce shit that no one wants
That's why it's the best economic system.
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>>741852427
>AIslop
It’s time to admit that AI is better than NPCs.
This bunch of DEI cultists are useless and disgusting.
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>>741846649
Who's next?
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>>741850043
>Faggot is mad about readability
Go choke on a dick
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>>741852836
Fable
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>>741847501
kek
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>>741846657
>I am a Dialogue Design

Will he be okay, /v/?
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>>741853724
>Dialogue Design
Shouldn’t the scriptwriters be responsible for this sort of thing?
Do they have several scriptwriters working on a rubbish game at the same time, to the extent that there’s a dedicated ‘Dialogue Design’ role?
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>>741846649
>>741846657
Kinda weird to see the layoffs hit artists and designers first and not "programmers" who are more easily replaced by AI because they don't actually know what they're doing
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>>741852836
>343
Safe for now, if the new Halo flops they're gone.
>Obsidian
Safe for now because of Grounded 2, but if it flops they're fucked. However, they're the best candidate for a new Fallout in a reasonable time, so I can see that also keeping them safe.
>Playground Games
Forza will keep them safe, until Fable drops.
>Rare
RIP
>Beenox
>Raven
>High Noon Studios
Support studios for CoD, completely safe.
>Bethesda
Completely safe until ES6. If it flops, they're fucked, but I think there's too many Beth fans still around for that to happen. MS will take control of their IPs though, and will focus on remasters and spinoff games for Fallout and ES.
>Blizzard
Kinda safe, their shit still makes money, but they might start downsizing some teams.
>Sledge Hammer Games
>Infinity Ward
>Treyarch
CoD still sells, MS won't fuck with them.
>The Coalition
They might be fucked if the 400 million dollar Gears of War budget turns out to be true, but depends on how well the new Gears sells, I don't think it will be enough.
>InXile
Safe until Clockwork Revolution comes out. If it flops they're fucked, can see them making a Fallout spinoff game though.
>Id
They're gonna get restructured after Doom underperformed. I doubt there will be layoffs, most likely a change in upper management.
>Turn 10
Already got nuked and half their devs layed off, now a support studio for Playground's Forza games. But the new Forza did really well, so what's left of them is safe.
>King
They make Candy Crush which prints money, but they already got downsized a bit last year, might get another round of layoffs this year since I doubt you need that many people for established mobile games.
>Undead Labs
Safe until State of Decay 3 drops, they're gone if it flops.
>Machine Games
Don't think the Indiana Jones game did well enough to save them, they're most likely gonna get layoffs.
>World's Edge
AoE is not doing great, also expect layoffs
>Mojang
Completely safe for obvious reasons.
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>>741854158
I think it's just a glorified UI Designer
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>>741847181
First two sold.

Song of the South of the Midnight, meanwhile: Didn't. Which is why they're finally being canned and the name sake flop is being MicroSlop vaulted like Song of the South was Disney's.

Unfortunately for Compulsion Games, they do not have a Whoopie Goldburg in their corner fighting to unvault Midnight.
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>>741854239
Programmers actually work. They just put the company on their CV and apply somewhere else. No need to beg for jobs via le connections on LinkedIn
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>>741854410
>Programmers actually work
As someone who works for a pretty big tech company, this is true of the older ones. The younger ones, who are 90% indian are horrible and I can code better than them, and I'm not even an Engineer. They're also lazy and the older engineers fucking hate them.
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>>741852521
Situation with Tango was complicated. It was decision from Zenimax side because studio lost all their veteran talent(they left with Mikami and to other studios) and they didnt had ANY project even in pre-production. Since Tango was made by Mikami to teach young people how to make shit this means Zenimax were left with a team of young unexperienced people that didnt even had incubation project or anything like that so they would basically need to start from scratch. Theres a reason why Krafton went on hiring spree after they acquired the studio.
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>>741854410
The good ones fled vidya dev eons ago. That's part of the reason everyone uses ue5 instead of building an engine tailored for their game
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>>741854309
Given what a massive flops Obsidians two previous games were I'm not so sure they are safe. Grounded 2 alone couldn't make up the losses. If they don't close the company outright they might just downsize it massively to the size of a indie meme game team to keep churning out more Grounded. Either way 99% of Obsidian is fucked with only Feargus winning.
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Anyone in this thread mocking the language of those linked in posts doesn't understand that (hellhole of a) platform and never looked for a job. This shitty HR talk is what they expect. It's a nightmare, but that's how it works
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>>741849732
>a whole ass team sat down and spent millions to produce this
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>>741849732
this party game is always online btw
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>>741848503
Matt here forgot to consider one thing, the recruitment people.
HR nowadays could spot an Ai-made resume after skimming through hundreds of Ai-made resumes weekly; and sometimes they uses an Ai to filter out Ai-made resume
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>>741850519
Nobody played the game
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>Asha Sharma hasn't posted on her Twitter since June 11th
kek she banked all the "wow she really knows what gamers want" cred she should get before the Fagfest ended and four weeks of misery began
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>>741854706
While I don't think their past two games sold that well, I doubt they were flops since they were primarily games pass filler and they've been cranking them out, releasing 7 games in 8 years. It's not a situation like Ninja theory where they took 6 years to make Hellblade 2 and it barely got 4k concurrent players on steam. Even a game like Outer Worlds 2, got 18k concurrent players on Steam, and that game was being made at the same time as 4 other games. I'd be surprised if Obsidian is left unscathed, but I highly doubt they're hemorrhaging money or that they'll be downsized massively.
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>>741856897
The Outer Worlds 2's budget was 100 million USD. The game earned about 2-3 million. This is a financial disaster. I've not seen if they gave Avowed's budget a number but it's estimated to be somewhat less than TOW2. We also know that the game sold even less than TOW2 did so it's a financial disaster on the same scale. These games have not even broken even with their budgets. Obsidian is in very deep shit right now.
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>>741854239
because if your code is shit, the game doesn't work
If your art is shit, you can just call it an artstyle :)
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>>741847336
okay
I'm still not going to play it though
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>>741857294
>Obsidian is in very deep shit right now.
If Microsoft were merely forcing them to make *Fallout*, that would already be a huge act of mercy.
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if you nerds watched that modern mba episode you would have seen this coming. xbox is super dead
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you can't tell me anyone other than activision is making money for microsoft
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>>741847181
We Happy Few sold pretty well and was generally a successful game even though it was unfinished and rushed out the door.
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>>741858148
Minecraft
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>>741858289
forgot about that
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>>741846649
>I am a Dialogue Design
This nib can't ever write his own job title
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>>741858148
it's just candycrush
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>>741858130
This guy just recycled what everyone else said
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>>741854309
>if the new Halo flops
Nigga, it will flop, it's on gamepass, only snoys will buy it.
>They might be fucked if the 400 million dollar Gears of War budget turns out to be true
From what i've heard it's not 400m it's more like 250~275m, but they would still have to sell more than the best selling game on it's franchise to B R E A K E V E N and this shit is also on gamepass day one, so no one will buy it, in other words, it's fucked.
>Safe until State of Decay 3 drops
They shat the bed 2 times now, it this game also doesn't have a full proper coop, they're done.

The rest i don't know or agree.
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>>741846649
>Phil buys studio so they can make gamepass slop
>they take years to make a shitty game with no replay valu3

Phil's plan failed.
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>>741847181
Phil wanted to be every dev's buddy and was way too soft on them
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>>741846657
If you were worth a shit you'd be poached before you even gathered your cubicle. This pleading into the void is truly pathetic and shows how useless they all are/were
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>>741846649
Hopefully Double Fine is next.
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>>741849146
based self reflection chad
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its really insane to me that these companies were given almost free money + free creative reign for 10 years and didn't do anything
They didn't even make cult classics that don't sell well, they just made terrible games.
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Good if it stops the wokening.
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>>741850284
They unironically hired Sweet Baby Inc. who gave them advice on how to make something that appeals to more people.
For some reason this never works out well for the studios involved.
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>>741852521
>company produced 3 big flops and one medium sized success
>a bunch of their more important people were fucking off
can't be helped
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BUT CHUDDHA WHAT IF
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>>741848378
LMAO
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>>741846649
>make a game about your childhood experiences in the south
>slap a niggerina on it to appease corporate overlords
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>>741846649
all american gamedevs should be homeless
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>>741848378
teh crazy part is that keeper is 3 hours long, and hellblade is 5 hours long

both are boring walking sim
keeper only in last third picks up and becomes fun when someone realized "wait, werent we supposed to be making a game?"

they take 5+ years to fucking make a game that takes one evening to beat
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>>741850986
>white woman
wasnt woke enough
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>>741850986
the weird part is that the grandmother is still white
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>>741854309
>They're gonna get restructured after Doom underperformed. I doubt there will be layoffs, most likely a change in upper management.
Hugo Martin is a godawful studio lead, that fucker should have never been put in charge
All his ideas suck ass
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>>741858039
Avowed wasnt that bad, if you cut out the dialogue it would have been okeish, the writing was just too bad for how much of it was there, the companions were pure garabage

still Tainted Grail is a better Avowed and was made by a no name studio of 30 poles on no budget
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>>741846649
Microsoft never stops laying people off. It's a never ending cycle. Every quarter.
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>>741848378
Dumb image, indians love shit. Try again.
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>>741846649
>game by sweet baby inc is first on the chopping block
nature is healing chud bros.
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>>741866478
Avowed overall was a painfully average game with no unique ideas, no risks taken and no real staying power behind anything it tries to offer.
That's not worth time nor money.
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>alan wake 2 originally had a white woman as player character
>consultants turned her black
>south of midnight originally had a white woman as player character
>consultants turned her black
>game doesn't sell and the studio is shut down

can't be helped
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>>741866819
That's basically every Obsidian game since they were founded. A painfully generic version of someone else's better game with nothing unique about it.
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But seriously, in every other industry trying to pander to black women measurably causes sales to increase and they buy more things. It's literally only video games where it doesn't work. Why?
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>>741866652
You're right, but right now the head of xbox has specifically said shes reorganizing and that it'll be a big one.
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>>741867034
how many black female gaymers do you know of?
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>>741866886
>Last game
>Incredible reception
Truly devoid of moral integrity. Cursed crew was right.
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>>741847181
I actually played Contrast back in like 2014. Sold for like $2 and got that many hours out of it. Didn't know it was the same company.
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>>741846649
All will be replaced by indians.
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>>741849773
SOM cost 100 million apparently. Just surreal how Xbox just has no management. I guess everyone was too afraid of saying "no" to the devs of the nigger sweet baby game
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>>741866819
yeah, the lack of a single original idea really hurt it
i knew it was supposed to be skyrim + outer worlds

but it failed technically by not being able to do one single seamless world ( despite being on u5 which can do fucking gigantic maps even in fortnite ) and gameplay wise just having skyrim combat and outrworld/fallout 4 quest design

to me it seems like they gave them fallout 4 and skyrim to play and said "copy everything, even loadings screens on opening doors" despite the engine being more than able to stream in new rooms, and using fucking nanite

for sure was made by people who never take personal responsibility for any decision
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>>741847105
sounds like you have never gotten your resume black listed
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>>741867723
>SOM cost 100 million apparently. Just surreal how Xbox just has no management.
Its not a lack of management, its two things:

1. 0% interest covid loans, same reason why Xbox and Sony bought up so many companies
2. Phil Spencer telling his teams to make what they want to make and not worry about how well they sell.

Phil was great for allowing creatives to be creative, even if what they made wasnt good. But he wasnt good at making Xbox money.
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>>741867934
>Phil Spencer telling his teams to make what they want to make and not worry about how well they sell.
thats literally what having no management is
if you let someone spend 100 million in some indie-looking ugly nigger game you are a horrible manager
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>>741868012
I disagree. You're bad in the eyes of suits that only care about making money. But as a consumer and as an employee I'd rather have way more bosses like Phil around.
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>>741867723
>>741867934
they outsourced a lot to really big name art studios like Keos Masons and they had a dozen other outsource companies listed
those guys probably charge 50k$ per model, add in a big voice cast, over half a decade dev time with a studio of 100+ people and 100mln$ dosnt seem much
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>>741868012
>if you let someone spend 100 million
What part of "0% interest loan" do you not understand?
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>>741868097
>But as a consumer and as an employee I'd rather have way more bosses like Phil around.

So you get more shit games nobody plays?

Phil wasnt incompetent since he allowed those woke games be made not caring for investors or what ever, but that he allows the devs to be completely disconnected from end consumer, so they produce products nobody needs and that nobody will buy.

Game devs as a whole have a huge problem with seeing consumers as anything other than worthless scum that should just shut up and give them money.
And i would know, im a lead in one of those studios and i expect to be fired by the end of the year.
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>>741868474
>So you get more shit games nobody plays?
Unsarcastically yes
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>>741846649
It's so beautiful to see western devs from both microsoft and sony dropping like flies
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just tell me if Rare has any chance of detaching itself from MS
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>>741868474
>And i would know, im a lead in one of those studios and i expect to be fired by the end of the year.
plot twist
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>>741868474
>i expect to be fired by the end of the year.
Time to get a real job fag, no more QC bullshit easy job for you
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>>741846649
wake me up when its mass executions
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>>741849124
It's a little flag you can set on your LinkedIn profile, but most of the people in HR I've talked to say it comes off as desperation to recruiters and they don't recommend it. Instead, they suggest you just set the secret 'Let recruiters see that my profile is open to job offers' flag that only people with the expensive Recruiter Account on LinkedIn can see.
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>>741868683
Ms needs rare for their eventual kinect 2. Who else do they have to make Kinect Sports?
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>>741850192
At the end of the day, they'll still be Indian.

So, they're still in a much worse position than anyone who got laid off.
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>>741870273
linkedin seems like one giant humiliation ritual for wagies
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>>741868659
they can't say we didn't warn them 10 years ago. hope they enjoy flipping burgers from now on.
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>>741870650
Thank God I'm a professional in a field that

1. Doesn't really have layoffs ever
2. Doesn't have to fuck with linkedin to get hired
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>>741854706
Nah, Obsidian can spin the situation to their advantage.
1. They have the technical ability to make some kind of Fallout game(parade Tim Cain and Sawyer and big "FROM THE MAKERS OF FALLOUT AND FALLOUT NEW VEGAS" and here's your marketing on top of that), which Microsoft really wants right now(beth is busy making TES and people will still remember Fallout show for some time).
2. While Pillars never had the response any of Larian's games did, if you want to make slop for BG3 people then hey you have Obsidian or inExile.
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>>741850232
That isn't apathy.
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>>741869992
kek
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>>741846901
The funniest thing is Microsoft replacing the black woman who was being personally groomed to become the new head of the Xbox brand.
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>>741855523
There are already multiple instances of HR's AI system filtering out legitimate human applicants (actual project managers submitted their resumes only to find their own company rejected them)
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>>741848503
I do this shit when a I’ve send an email. Apparently some faggot complained about my short answers
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>>741869323
Meh, i dont mind, i burned out really early on and stopped trying after seeing dei women just hire each other and give each other rises and promotions while anybody who did any work would be denied upward mobility, once networking replaces merit there is no chance for any good product.

And fuck me i hate everybody i work with, people legit have 0 idea how woke those people are, even biggest "redpillers" online completely underestimate how bad it is.
Entire IT field is a goyem daycare to keep women from having kids, been working as a game dev for over 10 years and its same shit everywhere.
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>>741871191
uncs are getting groomed too? naaah
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>>741870650
It can be if you use it like boomer corpo social media.

But it can be a valuable tool if you use it just for things like tracking work history, getting letters of recommendation, and other stuff. It's a digital resume, in a sense. And not having one, in tech, is like not having a cell phone.
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>>741871191
Indian ethnic nepotism trumps DEI when the CEO is Indian himself.
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>>741846649
the great DEI cleansing has begun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu67wq8ypwQ
Time to go back making games that the majority of that genre want at a appropriate budget.



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