Battlefield 6 is so bad, I didn’t even know it was released. And I’ve played all the other 5+
Excited for Battlefield 7
Can’t let that santorum trickle down.
This is why we can’t have nice things and then somehow you are a toxic left extremist when you want billionaire shareholders to be uninstalled.
Maybe one day programmers, artists, … will understand that the best way is cooperative, not having a CEO.
A great deal of the industry is powered by debt financing. And the CEO typically holds the job by gatekeeping access to that borrowed money.
Labor solidarity is predicated on being able to participate in the market. It isn’t as if people don’t try to Unionize. But if your office or your business or your entire industry can be casually strangled to death by the financial sector when a plurality demand a raise, there’s quickly nothing left to unionize.
Capitalism disassociates value from the labour that creates it and we.all just keep playing along.
Kind of. The folks at Blair Mountain stopped playing along and the cops went to war
This will/has become the norm. Finish a project, lay off 60% of the team, skeleton crew keeps crunching fixes, pay the suits the profit and wages saved.
And it would stop immediately if those workers had solidarity and refused to work on the project without the full team.
Maybe. Or maybe companies like EA would implode under their own dysfunction and leave a multi-billion dollar hole in the industry for China to fill.
A lot of American companies do seem willing to commit suicide before they pay their workers equitably
like a union. almost as if unions were created to protect the working class in the first place from these fat cats doing excatly this
All you can really do is not buy their shit, or if you must, buy it second-hand so EA, Nintendo, or whoever don’t profit directly.
Capitalism is truly messed up… let’s get rid of it.
So don’t support them… Support indie devs that deserve rewarding
Boycotts don’t stop EA money. They have superbowl ad money. The market of consumers that really just don’t give a shit about this is way too large, and they will go with what’s advertised to them constantly.
I’m not saying don’t boycott them. I have for decades. I’ve preached that for decades. It doesn’t work, the AAA dev is going to still have the main stage during every gaming convention and there will still be some weird ass overnight line to be the first one to buy corporate slop game 2026.
This basically describes society as a whole. The lowest denominators of society, at least 60% of the population , dictate how all of us live and die. That’s why things like Facebook exist. That’s why we let billionaires exist. That’s how people like Trump become leaders of the free world. That’s why we allow the “lobby” to make laws that only benefit a small group. Eradicate the idiots to solve all the worlds problems 😆
“Eradicate” through proper education, right?
Education can’t fix apathy. I don’t know what can, to be honest. Community, perhaps.
indies should be able to create much more advanced games now. indies might just replace those aaa titles
I wish EA didn’t but so many studios…
I don’t think any company should be able to buy another company. The same way people can’t buy other people
They’re publically traded - they now only exist to generate profit, and that’s the only metric that matters to them. It’s the same in any industry, unfortunately.
Not paying the CEO a 38 million dollar bonus and instead keeping the devs on board to create future products for way less than 38 million dollars is more profitable.
Yeah but that probably won’t impact the share price that much, for some reason.
Why do these guys look more and more like movie villains? What’s next? One will suddenly have a mustache that he will twirl? One will have an evil laugh? One will change his name to be Dr. John Evil?
Because you have it backwards. Movie villains look like these guys.
I think the mustache twirl ceo of the year is Ammon McNeff of bricks and mini figs, no doubt some gaming CEO will adopt the look at some point, but few of the big ones really adopt more than a milquetoast fit so as to not fully give themselves away.
Ammon McNeff
Googled him, first thought he was just looking like a normal bearded guy, then I noticed his mustache.
Dr John Evil only changed his surname from Balatro because he flirts with Evil
CEO that did fuck all gets a shit ton of money as a reward for doing fuck all and those that actually worked on the game with overtime and underpaid got the middle finger, makes perfect sense.
People need to stop working for these shitty “AAA” companies even if it’s to have it on their resume and idiots need to stop buying these games just so they can say they played every game in the series.
seems gaming is fcked, especially people graduating from college trying to get in as a designer/dev too.
