We are experiencing the 2nd video game crash, and you're doing nothing. 35 studios. 11000 employees. All gone and scattered into the wind. And you're doing nothing.
>>750687691I'm not doing nothing.I'm celebrating.:)
Learn to weld :)
>>750687691I mean, you're saying that like I should be doing SOMETHING. What the fuck do you want me to do?
>>750687691this is a good thing btw
There hasn't been a good game released since Skyrim.Death to the video game industry, all publicly traded companies need to get the fuck out, video games should not be profitable enough for the likes of Microsoft to be involved in development.
>>750687691I will be the vermin that feeds on the corpses of dinosaurs.
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>>750687691Untrue, I'm playing video games.
A contraction is not a crash. Half of video games companies could vanish overnight and there would still be tons of games getting made. All the comparisons to the past are stupid. Video games aren't going anywhere. It's still a hundred billion dollar a year industry.
>>750687801Gta 5 was better than Skyrim
talented developers will start their own small companies without any women or minorities in them. things will be fine.
>>750687801Elden Cringe was ok
>>750687691There won't be a crash. This is just market correction because the unlimited DEI investment money has clearly dried up. Doubt AAA will drop their prices but they at least might start making games the market actually wants now instead of the 'modern audience' shit they have been shitting out for the last decade. As the AI tools available to these corporations get better it should also mean they can stop outsourcing to jeets for stuff which should hopefully help things too.
>>750687691Dunno I don't play western games anymore
>>750687776Like you know, stand in solidarity with the people who made these games for you, fight against the corrupt private equities and capitalist establisments, and most of all...JUST BE A BETTER MAN.
>>750687791fascist
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>>750687691>sony studios and western devs implode >nintendo, eastern, and indie devs remain untouched
>>750688079When western rome fell apart, the rest of the world went about their business too, but it's still considered the lowest point of civilization at the time.
>>750687891>Just do shit that is literally illegal over moralizing nonsenseYou do realize that business failures are both a normal and natural part of economics, right? That this is working as intended?
>>750687691Yep. What do you want people to do? I didn't tell those 11k employees to become game developers.
>>750687691You're welcome.
>>750687691And why is it happening? Wokism.
>>750687691This wasn't a crash from technology shifting or from one competitor beating out another one with better offers or implementation - this was simply a cult of DEI incompetence being spread throughout studios and poisoning them all to death. Never seen anything like it before desu
>>750687691You shouldn't have turned all the hot chicks into ugly dykes with sideshaved heads.
>>750687691So you're saying I won by doing nothing? Turns out becoming non-buynary works.
>>750687691I wouldn't cry a tear if 99% of al AAA studios either closed or reduced their releases to AA only.
>>750688856Cope.
>>750688870The original crash wasn't like that either. It happened due to a sudden collapse of interest in game and investors losing trust in the industry. It dropped like 90% of its total revenue in the early 1980s and caused a near complete gaming blackout, a dark age if you will, for years. For this to happen today, it would be like if people everywhere suddenly stopped playing and talking about games worldwide from 2026-2028.
Good. I have not bought a new game since ToTK and the only new game Looking forward to is FF7 Revelations.
>>750689062Stop, I can only get so erect. Imagining this is putting me at risk of hopium poisoning
I gotta be honest. I don't want industry to "heal". Not out of spite for people in it but simply because I think it needs a hard reset. Too much bad practicies. philoshophies and "new normals" in it. And not necessary related to politics but more to the corpo culture general culture shift.
>>750687691I'm doing nothing, and I'm winning?Man, I fucking rule
>>750687845gta v was garbage. normie/babys first introduction to sandbox games. only children and browns care about gta
>>750687691yeah, sorry, I was busy
>>750687691>What? You dont like it? Then don't buy it bruh. Clearly this game is not made for (You)>okay then>We are experiencing the 2nd video game crash, 35 studios. 11000 employees. All gone and scattered into the wind. > And you're doing nothing.Somehow this is our fault
I had sex with a chinese prostitute tonightworth all 2000 pennies
>>750687691Whinny chuds are to blame
>>750687691Why can't it be the case that a crash is *needed* to trim the fat? We got the NES out of the first video game crash. The current industry *needs* a kick in the teeth.
>>750687691>And you're doing nothing.Indeed
and once again its just retarded american studios fucking shit up while the rest of the world isnt affected.
>>750687801kill yourself
>>750687986I do that.
>>750688118imagine comparison american sodomite propaganda to rome
>>750687691You don't understand economics. Here is a basic lesson. Video games are not a commodity. Oil, lets say, if it ran out, could result in an oil crash. Or if you started a war with the only supplier or something.Books, though, can be written by anyone. It can't really have a market "crash" short of total societal collapse. Video games are more like books than oil. We aren't going to run out of people who make video games.hopefully now you are marginally less stupid.
>>750689746American salaries are much higher.
>>750689916only because game devs tend to live in extremely expensive cities.
>>750689916>umm I absolutely have to set up my office in the literally richest part of the worldeverything is already getting outsourced and remote developed. and its not like american devs are hiring legitimate talent.might as well move to oklahoma.
>>750687691>11000 employessi wonder if it's actually just 500-ish people getting fired again and again
>>750687691The market value of the video game industry has been increasing consistently for over a decade if you ignore the post-covid slump. This is not a market crash in any sense.
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>>750687691This is a good thing and necessary. I would never lift a finger to stop it. These people need to never be allowed to work in this or any other entertainment industry again.
>>750687691>We are experiencing the 2nd video game crash, and you're doing nothing. 35 studios. 11000 employees. All gone and scattered into the wind. And you're doing nothing.
>>750687691>and you're doing nothingActually I'm playing videogames.Just not those ones.
>>750689916American game dev "requirements": work in a major city like SF, NYC, or LA, job must come with benefits and infinite office snacks and recreation to stimulate "creativity", must have global marketing and PR teams to make cancer ads, army of middle managers and HR foids who get paid more than (You) will ever make, DEI and sensitivity consultants including SBI niggers, must buy software licenses for bloated middleware to convert .tiff to .png and other impossible tasks, licenses for nigger tunes, cars, and other goyim brands that contribute to player immersion, must have famous voice actors for random NPC dialogue, must have competitive multiplayer on laggy servers with jeets running customer saarpport and moderation, and most important is endless astroturfing and paid shills because muh "guerillla marketing." These studios deserve to go under.
>>750687691>Studio that I like released 3 AAA games in a year all to massive success>New chinese/kor studios making fun action games to massive success>meanwhile western studios imploding left and rightOnly casualty I'll miss is ID lmao
>>750687691What am I 'supposed' to be doing?I buy the games I like, I'm not buying things I don't like.If you want me personally to buy more games, make more games I'd like.
>>750687691>western gayming
I don't think we're in any crash because unlike the first crash, indie devs can still make gaymes and they've a platform, the internet, to distribute them.
>>750687691All studios that hired retards and stupid women for political points are now paying the price for it
>>750690302>American gamedevs STILL pay for Bink audio and Wwise instead of just using vorbis or opus?Did you Mafia 1, in 2003 used Vorbis?
>>750690302>job must come with benefits and infinite office snacks and recreation to stimulate "creativity"That's the thing that always so strange to see in those "behind the scene" photos and videos. American game devs studios will have airhockey and ping pong tables, beanbags everywhere, people riding segways and skateboards, hired barista, a karaoke stand and so on and so forth with an exception of maybe a water slide. I understand the appeal of having a comfy and fun working place but it shouldn't be a daycare for adult children.IIRC it was the big reason behind Unknown 9 flop. The studio bragged how they don't believe in crunch and had all this playground shit in their office. But when deadline approached it turned out the game was nowhere near close to being done.
>>750687691fucking A-man!
>>750689062nice scenario but imagining the level of dedication people must've had for the blinking light games of pre-NES it's not that hard to see everyone collectively outgrowing them. gamers today are really fucking invested in the hobby. doubt anyone was fanboying that crazy hard about Space Invaders and Frogger.
>some studios have tens of thousands of workers>they still outsource most of the work to india and shitI seriously don't get it, what do these TENS OF THOUSANDS of people do at work for 8h+ each day?
>>750690601these used to be traps laid out by corporate to bind tech workers to the office while also being on paper cheaper than wage increases.but videogame development is way more cutthroat than most other development. a game publisher cannot offer the same shit as google.and yeah its baffling that in the age of manager supremacy nobody seems to give a shit about deadlines at all.
>>750690560the first crash was only limited to america consoles too.arcades were doing fine and pc gaming was trucking on too.
>>750690695do you really want to see a "day in the life of a game dev" video again? it's mostly a girl going to meetings and writing emails.
>>750690601in-office Barista is probably the only one that's actually useful, since it means people aren't wasting 20 mins getting out of the building and walking to starbucks or whatever for their ultra sugar megachino 5000 with pumpkin spices.Even then, just get a Lavazza automatic espresso machine with a service plan and be done with it.Good coffee increases morale and gets shit done. Having it in-office saves time. Everything else is stupid shit and needs to go.Get rid of all that shit and then you can put cubes back with the extra free space. Open plan is also cancer.
>>750690601These adult children make me sick. When I was in grad school I got thrown into a windowless office at a single long desk with a bunch of other students and was paid $25,000 a year with no benefits, PTO, relocation fee, or even subsidized access to the school's gyms and other facilities. I was told to work nonstop, TA for free, and produce a PhD worthy publication in about 4 years or gtfo. I learned after the fact that it was illegal for them to make me TA for free, but that hasn't changed.
>>750690695not exactly thousands but dozens of studios were closed this year. Bioware for example had like 400 employees.
>>750690695You can thank AGILE for this>start the day with a long meeting saying what you did yesterday>do a bit of work>now have to report and comment every single minor detail of the changes you did >finally done with this>ooh look another meeting for the team>now it's lunch>finally get back to work>now have to answer a bunch of emails and questions from people>start to actually work again>time to go home
>>750687986That's the plan. See you at McDonald's.
Beautiful.Fuck videogames.
>>750690753Just have a coffee maker in the kitchen or/and a coffee machine to use?Have the intern making sure the coffee pot is always ready and full, doesn't need a fucking barista for that crap.
lol
>>750687691More!
>>750687691The first crash happened because atari got greedy and only produced trash.This is the same but they are yelling "why does nobody think about the niggerfaggots" while offering to you.
but I didn't do anything
Fpbp, beat me to it.I want there to be consequences to the terrible games that get spewed out. This is the result of wallet voting, it worked.
>>750687691A crash starts and ends with gamers themselvesWe'll really be crashing when new releases repeatedly flop, the next gen doesn't catch on and old games are what see the most playtime
good fuck you video gay
>>750687776Ineffectually whine on Bluesky about FUCKING CAPITALISM or something.
>>750691110So... now?New releases repeatdly flopping- check.This generation didn't catch on - check.old games are what see the most playtime - check.
>>750691136Video games are art and therefore should be commissioned and paid for by the state and the taxpayers.
Sorry. I simply don't care.I'm just going to continue to buy games that I enjoy, and ignore the ones I don't.If you want me to buy games you make, simply make ones I like.
>>750691136That's the one I love the most.Like how many games do they think they'd be making under communism (hint: zero, videogames are not a necessity and it's a waste of labor - it exists under capitalism since it makes money)
>>750691174DONE
>>750691110That's happening right now. Even moderate "successes" like ghost of yotei and the last battlefield led to layoffs. Gears of War E day cost 500 million dollars only to sell 400k copies
>>750689862>Gaming revenue as a whole collapses 98%>Sony goes bankrupt>Microsoft pulls out of gaming entirely>Nintendo lives off merch and Netflix adaptations>Indy devs are now responsible for most new releasesWhat would you call that if not a crash?
>>750687986I cannot believe this image is still true a decade later
>>750690108If you ignore mobile and hyper casual non gamer shit it is about to crash. The console and PC market has already outpriced the majority of its traditional user base, this is before the flood of cynical ai slop has transformed all marketplaces into the mobile app store experience.
>>750687691total triple A collapse
>>750687691The games will remain unpurchased
>>750687691The double-whammy of AI and billion-dollar wokeslop failures is really fucking up the western industry.
>>750691331lmao the AAA stuff is hyper-casual
For it to be like the 1983 crash, vidya would be considered so worthless that shops would struggle to clear stocks at bargain bins and would rather dump them at a landfill
>>750691270Good riddance.
>>750690994lmao
Should've made more big dicked tribal boys impregnating himbos and bimbos
>>750690601>>750690753That shit isn't provided because employers want to pamper employees. It's to eliminate excuses to leave the office and trick you into working more hours. These "perks" are golden handcuffs. HR and management/executives can also delude themselves about how generous these "perks" are and therefore they don't need to offer bonuses or meaningful raises.>you don't need to leave to go to the gym, just get in a lift at our onsite gym then come back to your desk>you don't need to leave to get lunch, just grab something at the cafeteria and take it back to your desk>you don't need to leave to get dinner, we're having pizza delivered I'll have some sent to your desk>need a break? take a 30 minute nap in the nap pod then go back to your desk refreshed and ready to work more
>>750691548That's rather extremely specific fetish anon.
>>750691576>wageslave 7 days a week with free food and drinks but no raises or bonuses>or wageslave 7 days a week with no perks and also no raises or bonusesEasy choice
>>750690994LMAO
>>750691634Wild berserker boys with massive horse cocks that rape anything that moves is how you save the game industry.
>>750687691>Make Goyslop BLM Simulator 2>Okay go ahead but thats not the kind of games i like so i'm not buying it>AIIEEEEEEEEEEE THIS IS LITERAL CORPORATE GENOCIDE
>>750691576You're being paid to work anon, it's not adult daycare.
>>750692219DON'T YOU SUPPORT THE INDUSTRY? BUY THE OVERWEIGHT BUTCH LESBIAN GAME CHUD
>>750692219>corporate genocideNo, The corporations are fine.>bbut Bioware is goneSubsidiary. EA is the corporation and they chose profitability over adult care packages.
>>750687691>We are experiencing the 2nd video game crashGood
>>750687691They don't make games i like.
>>750687809The sad part is, that was the entire strategy behind the woke push "normies will buy it anyway"
>>750687986At least its free.
>>750691270>Gaming revenue as a whole collapses 98%That's not going to happen because people really like video games and are willing to pay money for them. Imagine if 98% of developers vanished overnight, though. That would be the biggest software gold rush in history because video game fans would be like desperate junkies. New studios would be springing up left and right trying to cash in on the unsatisfied demand. It would be billions of dollars on the table.Everything this is happening now in the industry is a good thing and long overdue. They milked an outdated model too hard for too long.
>>750690850>Agile>Actually slows everything down to a fucking standstillI'm gonna replace these niggers estrogen with rat poison in bottles that call it Super Get Well Juice
>>750692467Nta but back in 1983, revenue collapsed by 90% precisely because gamers as a whole simply stopped buying vidya. But yet it's not gonna happen. Way too many paypigs these days.
I work in a distinct industry from vidya and in my area the similar layoff and closings are due to how retardedly many companies expanded during the pandemic and now finally business is back to normal levels and they are too leveraged when it comes to debt/excessive investment and too bloated.It's not even because of AI (yet).
>>750687691Let's get those numbers even higher by doing nothing.
>>750687691These studios betrayed gamers. They price-gouged and forced woke bullshit down our throats.Die motherfuckers, die!Veilguard and Yotei would have been MASSIVE successes and sold gangbusters if they had designed them for GAMERS. Instead they catered to creepy SJWs who do nothing but whine on socials all day and DON'T PLAY VIDEO GAMES.These are the consequences that follow.
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>>750687691$70 was too much to ask for a VIDEOGAME
>>750691174True, but not this state because this state is a bourgeois state.Only a fascist or socialist state can or should direct state investment in art for the good of the people. When dying enterprises that harm the people throw themselves into the bourgeois state's arms, we should hope that the state lets them fall.
>>750687986I've been doing that without the whining part. 2026 has been boring to me, Nioh 3 disappointed me and while I'm semi interested in crimson desert I'll wait until it's finished with all the content released.Maybe I'll try poe2 1.0 since I got a key but I doubt I'll stick with it for long.
>>750692219nobody is actually like that, right?
>>750687691>doing nothing?>*cling*>heh>*lights cig*>funny that you mention it>*inhales*
>>750692594>Way too many paypigs these days.PC and consoles could generate $0 and there'd still be enough paypigs on mobile alone for gaming to stay bigger than movies
>>750687691Say that again...
>>750687691I demand more bloodMy ritual is: not buying
>>750692945I do this
>>750689062>it would be like if people everywhere suddenly stopped playing and talking about games it kinda is though? 90% of hours played are probably spread across like 10 games
>>750693320Grim
>>750691346stop winning
