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[PeteBull]

Agreed with you OP.

Fruity shitty dev crying a river over AI or losing their jobs because they make shitty games nobody bought. A failing business doesn't have the right to continue to exist. Let better studios take over.

The very reason those talentless parasites lose their job is coz gaming industry is one of most competetive business on the globe, for every failed game there are 10 other ones hoping we spend our hard earned money on.
If those fkers were rewarded and kept their job(talking as a whole studio, not singular person who could be at no fault obviously) then that would mean something is wrong.
Luckily thats a sign world is healing, sick cancerous parts are getting rid of, many left but night is still young

Hoping hermen is let go before year ends, after all

 

[SirTerry-T]

I don't give a damn about video game developers. I don't care about them as human beings, their well being, their jobs, their pay, their families, their lively hood. I don't care about lay offs, AI, Unions, crunch, sexual harassment or studio shutdowns.

I as a consumer only care about one thing: Is this game fun? I don't care about gaming as a medium out side of of me consuming it and I am sick of all the belly aching about game developers on the internet. To any and all game developers, get back in the kitchen and make me another game.

I'm a game dev.
Fuck you too.

 

[PlayStaytion]

Team Microsoft Xbox would like to offer you the job, we welcome you with open arms

How close are you to your new CEO?

 

[PeteBull]

I'm a game dev.
Fuck you too.

Wish u well, bro, hopefully not in EA/Ubisoft nor any studio under microsoft or sony, even better not in any western AAA studio, just to be on a safer side

 

[March Climber]

"I don't care about... Studio shutdowns."

So if the maker of your favourite game shutdown you wouldn't care? Huh

Some of the things you listed will have a direct effect on you "consuming it".

He is essentially saying "I don't care *until it effects me*"

It's unfortunately how a lot of people currently view life, relationships, social issues, politics, etc. you name it.

People tend to leave out the second half of the statement to sound cool or edgy, or both.

 

[PlayStaytion]

Yeah, OP sounds a bit psychopathic. No one is asking you to do anything, but I think having some empathy is just a human thing.

Especially there are million ways to screw up the game you're working on. We have seen many based unpaid comments equivalent to years of experience as a CEO. The industry actually is created this way at least since the original XBOX.

 

[Boo Who?]

I don't give a damn about video game developers. I don't care about them as human beings, their well being, their jobs, their pay, their families, their lively hood. I don't care about lay offs, AI, Unions, crunch, sexual harassment or studio shutdowns.

I as a consumer only care about one thing: Is this game fun? I don't care about gaming as a medium out side of of me consuming it and I am sick of all the belly aching about game developers on the internet. To any and all game developers, get back in the kitchen and make me another game.

So what do you do for a living?

 

[FingerBang]

They will attack you relentlessly, because you're right. This is absolutely the only sane attitude. You should only care about your own interests. The same way people should not be ashamed to start businesses for money, instead of constantly make up shit to look virtuous.

 

[Varteras]

I don't give a damn about video game developers. I don't care about them as human beings, their well being, their jobs, their pay, their families, their lively hood. I don't care about lay offs, AI, Unions, crunch, sexual harassment or studio shutdowns.

I as a consumer only care about one thing: Is this game fun? I don't care about gaming as a medium out side of of me consuming it and I am sick of all the belly aching about game developers on the internet. To any and all game developers, get back in the kitchen and make me another game.

 

[PlayStaytion]

I'm more sympathetic with the builders having to stay under the sun for 8 hours a day with 40 degrees Celsius... who am I kidding and don't really care about them too.

Usually they get forced to retire from their health condition for working many years under the sun. These guys are heroes, they wouldn't mind building the next skyscraper if their body says yes.

 

[SirTerry-T]

So what do you do for a living?

He must be a heart surgeon or child cancer researcher? Nothing else would excuse that incredible display of self importance and ignorance.

 

[DAHGAMING]

How close are you to your new CEO?

Put it this way, I just got off playing Redfall with her

 

[WX3]

Put it this way, I just got off playing Redfall with her

He didn't ask if you were retarded.

 

[Disciple of MSSP]

 

[INNocence]

Hell yes! I'm so sick of all those whining about how their lives are so hard to live. How about my life I'm living working in a trading company, how about all those people's lives they live to make the world around you spinning. Do your job you're paid for, and, by the way, you're paid really well and stop crying!!! What a degenerates all those devs are in real life! Make good games and if it's good I'll buy it!

 

[Doomtrain]

I don't give a damn about video game developers. I don't care about them as human beings, their well being, their jobs, their pay, their families, their lively hood. I don't care about lay offs, AI, Unions, crunch, sexual harassment or studio shutdowns.

I as a consumer only care about one thing: Is this game fun? I don't care about gaming as a medium out side of of me consuming it and I am sick of all the belly aching about game developers on the internet. To any and all game developers, get back in the kitchen and make me another game.

I don't care about you either. Now go flip my burger, or whatever it is you do.

 

[WoJ]

I mean, I kind of agree with the OP. In the games industry, more than any other I see clowns like Schrierer writing these "woe is me" articles about crunch and studios being shut down and "toxic" environments. Welcome to every corporate job, everywhere.

And devs don't help themselves with their clown behavior online literally belittling their customer base on social media, injecting their nonsense politics into games at the expense of what their actual consumers want. Then they turn around and yell some more at consumers when their games fail and don't look in the mirror at all.

I'm not going to wish harm on game devs, but I also don't care about crunch - lots of industries have the equivalent. I don't care about their alleged "hardships". As a collective modern game devs a bunch of cry babies who hate their customers. Why would I give a shit about them?

 

[Heart_Attack]

There are way too many people developing too many games. Colin Moriarty has spoken about this plenty of times. We are bound for a reset.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

However vitriolic the OP might be, I actually don't disagree. And I say that as someone who works in games, who actively tries to help smaller dev teams succeed, so I have a vested interest. But I get it - at the end of the day, what matters is the game and people shelling out for them shouldn't have to worry about all the background shenanigans.

 

[The Pleasure]

MagusMajul articulating himself to the developers

 

[yogaflame]

I only care about the legend Shigeru Miyamoto.

 

[SportsFan581]

You cared enough to type that paragraph about how much you don't care. That'll have to be enough.

 

[LuxFixxins]

I don't give a damn about video game developers. I don't care about them as human beings, their well being, their jobs, their pay, their families, their lively hood. I don't care about lay offs, AI, Unions, crunch, sexual harassment or studio shutdowns.

I as a consumer only care about one thing: Is this game fun? I don't care about gaming as a medium out side of of me consuming it and I am sick of all the belly aching about game developers on the internet. To any and all game developers, get back in the kitchen and make me another game.

I too was once 13.

 

[diffusionx]

The game industry, for the past 10 years, is full of people who don't like video games and don't want to sell games to the people who buy them.

This is not sustainable. Like gamers spent many years asking Ubishit for a AC in Samurai era Japan, they announce a AC in Samurai era Japan. Easiest fucking layup ever right? Well no, because they had to make you play as a girl boss and a black guy. Like, the contempt is just obvious. And sure enough it (almost definitely) underperformed. So if someone told me the AC Shadows team got shut down, all I will say is that they didn't make the game people asked for so people didn't buy it.

 

[rapid32.5]

Agreed. System sales, developer layoffs, and studio acquisitions or closures shouldn't interest gamers. We should focus on games instead. That said, being a fan of a particular studio is perfectly reasonable, since they create the games you enjoy and spend your time on.