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.
>>750687776
>>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
>>750687809
>>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.
>>750687691
>>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.
>>750690994
>>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
>>750687691videogames suck, nobody has any idea how to make a new thing, only clones of old thing. they should close and they should be forced to get real jobs.
>>750687691Meh. Vidya has been lame as fuck for at least 10 years. It's over Jim, let it burn so it may be reborn
>>750691270Sony Playstation is doing fine with everything except their shitty first party games.
This is why nobody likes chuds
>>750689179There's not enough corpo culture. At some point the studios threw out decades of lessons on making money
>>750687691Maybe make some good games if you want me to feel bad.
>>750687691Zero layoffs in Asia
>>750687691More!!! MORE!!!!!!The coalition and Naughty dog! you're next! BAahahahaha TOTAL CHUD VICTORY!
>>750687691total modern video game developer deth
>>750687691Not enough.
>>750687691we have been telling USA and Canada to change course since 2016. now that the ship has hit the iceberg, you have no one else to blame but yourself.
>>750694886Ackshully square enix just laid off a lot of woke employees
>>750691279
>>750687691I thought this bitch was under water.
>>750687691>And you're doing nothing.I'm playing eastern games.
>>750695659>asshurt
i just see tourists leaving my country
>>750695823Gachas don't countNor do any game related to Mario or Pokemon
>>750687691The layoffs will continue until vidya improves
>>750687691let me rephrase what that whole industry kept repeating to anyone else who tried pointing out the collapsing living standards throughout the years.>just learn to make burgers.good riddance.
>>750695918I don't see a direct path from layoffs to games improvingLess money into AAA trash doesn't translate to more money for AA/indies
Chuddha, what if...
>>750687691L3@RN 2 C0l)3 FUCKING DEVS.NOW CODE ME SOME FUCKING FRIES!!!t.IT Specialist and Hardcore Gamer
>>750695969>less leftoid tranny employees >less ideological propaganda>back to making games for straight menIt's just natural selection
>>750687691Go woke go brokeTroons lost
>>750695969sooner or later they will have to start losing the fat. and then they will notice that they fired people who actually made videogames long time ago and all thats is fat.
>>750687691Go woke gobroke
>>750695883i know /v/ doesn't like it, but I'd prefer stellar blades, crimson deserts, wuchangs and phantom blade zeros than whatever the rest of the industry gives us. Otherwise, there are 2 decades of vidya. If the industry dies, people will just continue playing old games, especially with emulation being so accessible nowadays.
>>750687691Doing nothing is my best chance for this to continue, anon.
>>750690850I hate Agile and daily meeting so fucking muchNigga if there's something to discuss I will tell you. Otherwise just let me fucking work
>>750687691thanks
>>750687801I think Death Stranding is a good game. It was truly unique which I value and I'm a sucker for engines that let you do dumb shit like riding your floaty package carriers down mountains for no reason.
I don't even play games :)
>>750692229>Wagie Stockholm syndrome
>>750687801Skyrim is not a good game.
waiting for devs to make a good game
>>750688118>Sony movie games are just like ancient Rome!
>>750687691It's all from studios that don't make games I like. so... yeah, there's that
>>750687843>A contraction is not a crashIt is a local crash if all the contraction is in one place.If I had a nickel for every time the north american video game market crashed I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it's happened only there twice.
>>75068769135 studios need maybe 1300 employees total.Not 11.000 of them.
>>750687691>11000You realize this is literally nothing, right?
>>750697864tha's pretty big for the industry considering microsoft also made a company wide purge of more than 60 thousand employees world wide
>>750698147>microsoft also made a company wide purge of more than 60 thousand employees world wideYeah and that really changed everything.
>>750687691I want these people to lose their jobs bitch.
>>750698203Actually is, because the company, thanks to asha, is now going to streamline the vast majority of human jobs with AI.
>>750698324No :)
>>750687801Matoba is a WHORE.
>>750687691There's a video game crash going on? I've just been playing games made by autistic frenchmen in teams that neber exceed more than 12 people.
>>750687691Why dont studios hire chud consultants to make sure their games appeal to chuds and thus actually make some money?
>>750687691>We are experiencing the 2nd video game crashyes plz. All these women and faggots that have been ruining gaming for over a decade now need to all lose their jobs.
>>750698717You are woman and faggots THOUGH
>>750698665because they're chuds?
>>750698660thousands of people are losing their livelihoods and this fucker is just ignorant to it. This is why we need to be woke, in both meanings of the word.
>>750689665Based
>>750687691This isn't a crash, it's culling the waste.
>>750697864Theres only about 330000 game devs on the planet. 3% of the entire workforce is not a small amount. It's even worse when you consider that it's concentrated in one specific location. Definitely the californian game industry has been absolutely gutted.
Honestly suprised it took this long for gaming companies to realise that making video games isn't a charity and you actually have to sell copies to stay open.
>>750699339It's a small amount. Also they'll just replace the workforce with ten billion even more retarded staff the next day.
>>750687691>We are experiencing the 2nd video game crashI prayed for this to happen. :^) I willed it into existence. :^D
The laid off should form small 5-50 person studios and make the games they have always wanted to with AI tools for smaller audiences. I would expect a lot more games to start coming out soon from talented devs working on semi-passion projects.
>>750699449Why would they do that when they can be replaced with AI?
>>750699498I too enjoy crack cocaine
>>750687691Recommending they sell fun vidya games instead of packaged ideology and they'll glare at you like you just said:>I'm sending you to a concentration camp!Ze layoffs will continue until gaming improves.
>>750687691and you are doing...... ??
>>750693320This is a sign of a mature digital vidya ecosystem and an effect of live service shit. Nobody has to buy shit at launch because they're not selling non 10/10 games they've finished used to buy new shit and their libraries grow or they can entertain themselves with live services while they wait for a sale or even to see if the game wasn't released shitty. It happens to decent games like Ninja Gaiden 4 and shit like the various concords and it will keep happening with games going for long tail sales if they sell at all until publishers drop the fuck out of release MSRPs.
>>750699642Ask the CEOs buddy.
>>750687691it's more than video games though.vidya kept up the charade long enough to have the crash rolled up with the overall collapse of the world's systems. awfully frustrating
>>750699498the laid off are primarily brownoids and roasties who expect to be paid a hefty salary to ctrl+v gay flags into existing franchises. they are not white men making actual video games.
>>750699669buying ten copies of TES6 and Duskbloods to save the industry
>>750699719through out america there's lay offs in a lot of sectors, especially the entertainment industry. Hollywood and Disney is going through a shitshow right now.
>It can't happen!>It WON'T happen!>Lrn2economics How do you explain away this one then, retard(s)? It happened before it CAN and most likely WILL happen AGAIN.
>>750687691Good
>>750687751The best welder I ever met was an unemployed man crippled by his profession.
>>750687691I feel like this is just natural contraction after the ridiuclous expansion and then bloat that came from COVIDVidya was one of the few industries to benefit from everyone being locked up for a year and a halfRetarded capitalistcuck companies need to stop relentlessly expanding "Just because we can" when they're doing well because it always inevitably leads to cuts later on when the bubble pops. Well I say this but the higher ups dont care, their jobs are safe and they make a fortune anyway
>>750687691Culling the herd. Good riddance.
>>750700037A lot of these business guys have no experience in anything beside having a business degree. They're not even good at math. I have no idea why they're in positions of power.
>>750700158>Culling the herd. Good riddance.
>>750699860the funny thing is that this image quite literally already happened with the death of physical and plenty of AAA games being so unwanted they had to slap some of them into non-vidya related products to get rid of them. While they were never dumped into a land fill, for years we have had many hundred + million dollar budget games being thrown into the bargain bin that would have likely been dumped into some garbage compactor somewhere. I know for a that games like horizon forbidden west for example are some examples of this. At one point they started putting that game to go with headphones and mice.
>>750699860No? Modern video games are a faaaaaaar higher quality product than they were back then, fucking moron. Those "video games" collapsed because they were just a couple bits with deets n' doots against a black screen, essentially every single game in existence was the same.It's not a comparable environment at all, regardless of how shitty you think modern video games are.
>>750696406>>750690850You could write a fucking book on how bureaucracy does this>here’s our 9,007th paper on how loosening structures improves productivity, time and again we see that basic trust and cooperation is far more efficient than heavily regimented hierarchical planning>TEAM! in order to Improve Efficiency, here is our heavily regimented 15 step plan to Promote Looser Structures! In order to avoid managerial hierarchy, management has created a series of mandatory meetings for peer to peer discussion. The next 3 weeks will be spent reorganizing your desks according to the following Disorganized Desk plan to promote cross-department collaboration!I know>the beatings will continue until morale improvesis an old saw but I feel like in the 2020s it should be>the meetings will continue until the flow improves
>>750687969Hag.
>>750687691i dont care ima keep playing bloodbornehttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/SHyyfcwI_Zw
>We are experiencing the 2nd video game crashcorrection: useless parasites in western studios that collected paychecks for 10+ years just to virtue signal and own the "chuds" are finally getting the bootanyone who was actually making games and didn't lose touch with gamers is currently swimming in cash
>>750701850you lost
>>750695659yes and Hilary had 95% chance to win and Kamala was going to sweep Iowa by like 11 points
>>750687691good
>>750702045>mcdonald's employee impotente seetheI will take large fries and a double chicken burger and a medium cola zero
>>750687691Celebrating. Burn this rotten fucking industry.
>>750695659they both suck israeli cock so i hope they both die
>>750687691Crash is needed. Industry produces nothing but trash, I haven't played a single new game this year.Fuck mainly western studios and their checklist woke movie "games".
>>750687691I don't give a god damn about silicon valley woketard developers losing their jobs, I can't afford a fucking computer.
>Old enough that I have both a couple dozen games I could play until death and a backlog of triple that.>young enough that I'll live to see the end but old enough that I had enough time to waste it all playing video games.>The worst case scenario is that I'm wrong and the world isn't about to fall apart and it's all okay: Oh no how terrible. Time to laugh and grow fat.
>>750704950>Normal-sized man: Me>Chinese factory worker: the impending collapse.
>>750687691Good. Fuck 'em
>>750687691>make expensive games that appeal to barely anyone at all>shocked they fail to make back its extremely inflated budget and the studio closes down
>>750702045>we may have lost our jobs, but we won the war!
>>750699860That happened because retailers sent back useless shovelware that wouldnt sell to the companies publishing the useless shovelware. It was cheaper to dump catridges in a landfill than store them because retailers slashed prices down to literal cents to get rid of their inventory. That is incompatible with digital storefronts
>>750702335>comparing midterms to presidential electionslollmao
>>750687691The best part is when journos and other industry Wokies have to pretend this nuclear capital destruction isn't due to Woke cancer.
>>750687986>don't play video gameWhy would I want to expose myself to a Leftoid social engineering propaganda piece? You're just being silly now.
>>750687691post her webm where she's waving flags
>>750687691If you actually like video games then you should be happy about it. All these people being laid off are people who only got into the industry due to the boom that happened by pandering to normalfags. Video games peaked in the late 90s and early 00s and ever since the industry has been attractive to people who care more about making money and propagating politics than making actually good games. We used to have like 15 good video game developers. Now we have 15 good video game developers and 45 shitty ones. The 45 shitty ones are disappearing. Why would I stop that?
This a western problem. And, needless to say, no one really cares about western games. Which is why it's a western problem. See how that works? The industry isn't crashing. The west is just rebooting.
>>750687986what I don't understand is why anyone would use that shill in a picture mocking those opposed to blind consumerism
>>750706941>westInteresting how the first crash was mainly western too, huh?
Do nothing.Win.
>>750687691the only studios that are closing for the most part are the ones that are releasing terrible games
great year so far,hopefully we beat those numbers in 2027
>>750687691>11k hacks lost their jobs.The number is still too low
>>750687691>IF YOU DO NOTHING MORE STUDIOS WILL CLOSE AND GAMING WILL DIEGood, fuck these people. They betrayed their audience for the sake of pushing their bolshevik death cult of an ideology onto a group of people who just wanted to be entertained. I'll stick to playing games pre-2014.
>>750687691Good. Fuck this shithole parasitic industry. I hope the crash is so severe that loads of devs and execs off themselves agonizingly.
>>750687809straight white men used to be conquerors
>>750687986RISE UP MINDLESS CATTLE FAGGOT GAYMURS
>>750702045Wokies are over. You don't need Wokies to be your customers.
>>750691174they're not art. they're toys and bubblegum and slot machines. you are an addict.
>>750691413it wont be that bad especially with so much recent transitions in years to digital copies. a lot of shops wont be impacted that hard, it's the devs and publishers and some smaller e-marketplaces
>>750690994man those tears are delicious
>>750707440exactly. rookie numbers
>>750687691go woke go broke buddy
>>750687691>11,000
>>750690994bro he also sent e-mails
I want this. The next crash need to happen. Not enough innovation has come to the medium since the early 2010s, nobody gives a fuck about optimization (in fact its weaponized to keep you exclusive to some games due to harddrive space) and bugtesting is done after videogames launch, not before. We are living in an age where games are treated like red carpet affairs while the price of admission skyrockets to justify the overinflated multi million dollar budgets. We need another crash.
>>750690994https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuJ31L7mGFo
>>750690753>heckin cofferino
Can someone explain why the fuck game devs are treated as perfect saints who can't ever do anything wrong, and should face no consequences when they make shitty games that lose hundreds of millions of dollars? Why don't employees at any other jobs receive these levels of grace?
>>750687691I will put them out of their misery, but they have to buy the bullets.
>>750708763mass media does what glowniggers want
>>750708763At least I know some of the guys who get laid off were competent. What did the guys who got laid off at Microsoft do? Put ads in my file explorer?
>>750708763It's because they have the same politics as them, that's literally it. It's leftie game journos having a melty cause leftie game devs are losing their jobs. You think these same people would be heartbroken if the devs behind something like lords of the fallen or stellar blade had layoffs? No, they would be celebrating lmao
>>750708763because they are ARTISTS making HIGH ART
>>750708027Video games are the highest form of art you brownoid bugman.
>>750687717BASED
>>750704950For me, it's using Vibe coded mods of the games I love, blackjack and hookers style.
>>750709015It's got nothing to do with lefty wefty whatever you fat schnozzed Israel-flag humping cuck
>>750687751>>750699971Welding hasn't been a good career since the 80's/90's when all the steel jobs got shipped to mexico and china
>>750708763camp A>I love the industry, even if I liked this product or not I still need to show love and respect to the people who made it, can't win them all!camp B>I hate this handful of products, and therefor the teams working on them need to get their shit together. No "I" in team, everyone should accept responsibilitycamp C>no matter how good the majority of the staff are, its ultimately the CEO's whims and the project deadlines that ruin these games or distract time and talent from making them good
>>750709138Kek it has everything to do with that, stop being purposely disingenuous
>>750687801You're wrong but the fact that there's one or two good games released every 5 years now instead of 5-10 good games being released annually should tell you how bad the industry has gotten in the last decade and a half.
>>750709291lefties are always disingenuous no matter how much evidence you show them.
It's crazy how the thought of all those stolen toys for boys being returned to their rightful owners angers leftoids more than capitalism does
>>750709040you're an addict and a piece of cattle. read the bible.
>>750708763because the narrative is that game devs are le artists that are being abused by the big evil capitalist corporation and not being allowed to express their creativity and art while being sacrificed in the name of money.
>>750691413Reminder that crash was pretty much entirely localized to the united states
>>750687691I'm laffin
I'm honestly totally fine with every western entertainment industry just collapsing at this point.Just burn it all down.
>>750687691It won't affect Nintendo so I don't care.
>>750709548Why are you here?Not him, but games CAN contain art, but are not usually not art. Also, it's fine to indulge sometimes, as long as you're not addicted. Practice moderation. Asceticism is retarded
>>750710752But are usually not art* fuck
>>750709869And most to California. But how could this happen how could a poorly managed over priced studio go under?
>>750696907I mean they are just as gay as each other so it's not entirely inaccurate.
>>750687691>and you're doing nothingThat's the best part. It's like watching idiots slit their own throats. No need for ISIS, they just pick up sharp objects within reach and get to work.
>>750687691Maybe now I can play all those retro games I wanted to check out without the constant new slop noise in the background
>>750687845GTA 5 was better than 4, but still inferior to San Andreas.
>>750687691They were all dei hires that ruined gaming. They should have easily been able to make a profit but they made abysmal wokeslop full of trannies instead of even just normal terrible games.
In case none of you are /biz/, basically every fourth quarter is a chopping block. Bad companies get purged by the beneficent hand of capitalism. Good companies get to eat and thus grow in marketshare.
>>750687691Gaming had a good run and produced more than any of us will ever have enough time to play before we die of old age. It's enough now. We don't need any more games.
>>750696907western empire so its smelly barbarians squatting in the ruins and larping for a few hundred years
>>750711548gaming still has centuries to go, though.
>>750687691Why people have such a hard time understanding that if you spend 500 million dollarinos on something that doesn't sell it will cause people to lose their jobs?
>>750687691>you're doing nothingAnd yet, I'm winning.
>>750711620Well yeah when the industry crashes and kills western devs like sony it will keep going with nintendo and the next set of indie devs stepping up
How many people have FromSoft laid off so far?
>>750687717FPBP
>>750710846>the fags of today told me that Rome was super gay to justify their own faggotry >since I'm an edgy chud I of course fully fell for it based retard
>>750710813It was inevitable considering the state many were operating out is just as poorly managed with billions in wasted dollars on failed projects that went nowhere.
>>750712824it's not just video games. A lot of industries are pulling out because california's taxes are just way too high
>Ex-Ubisoft friend of mine is now flipping burgers and ranting about jeets taking jobs>I warned him years ago that the brown flood and AI was going to sink him>He's now malding hardcore because he can't get a programming job anywhere>mfw
>>750713013You're right, it's one of the biggest reason California sucks so hard besides how its governed
>>750695659>leftists can't meme>UHM BUT WHAT ABOUT MY THIRD WORLD SHITHOLE HOROSCOPE?
>>750692467>That's not going to happen because people really like video games and are willing to pay money for themMost of those "people" only like cinematic movieslop, the exact genre at the brink of collapse right now. If AAA cutscene sims stop being made, these "people" won't magically start buying obscure indie platformers, they'll simply stop playing games
>>750714746I never understood why the movie slop crowd doesn't just watch tv shows on netflixit would be cheaper
>>750709138>the people who make everything about politics aren't doing it this timeMmm-hmm.
>>750714215Taxation is part of how a place is governed.
>>750687691make shitty games for 10+ years and pay the price fagits
>>750687691I only play Nintendo, japanese and older gen games, so it's not my problem. Oh no Microsoft just fired another thousand employees that were just warming chairs at work, oh no Bioware is dead because they haven't released a single good game in over a decade, boo hoo hoo.
>>750687691>And you're doing nothing.Speak for yourself. I'm not supporting or using AI in any shape or form. So I'm doing plenty to try and save our society from going under completely.
Erm... why don't they just make good games?
>>750687691>We are experiencing the 2nd video game crash, and you're doing nothingIndeed
>>750709548>christcuckThat explains it. Why should I read your dogshit fanfiction that is full of inconsistencies and plot holes?
>>750687691This only applies to major studios who just churn out one uninspired turd after another, never learning from their mistakes, never listening to the audience they're supposedly trying to cater to, all the while trying to appeal to an imaginary or theoretical audience of liberal sock puppets. They're committing suicide and they have people internally telling them that it's the right thing to do... meanwhile none of them are paying attention to the indie scene where developers are actively making games people WANT to play and seeing great success from that one basic motivation.
>>750687691oh well.
>>750711302All that corporate mumbo jumbo is exactly why big studios eventually crash and burn. They lose their souls and just become these misguided egregores relying on garbage like "trends" and "market research". Just let the right creatives make the games they want to make.
>>750690994lol
>>750704027Real answer right here
>>750687691I bought Pokopia, Splatoon Raiders Galactic Racer and Switch Sports Resort for full price faggot. Also a bunch of indies like Shanty Town
>>750708763because bugmen journos and game devs that produce nothing are parasites with the same goal of surviving at the expense of the gamer, when they cover for woke devs they cover for themselves you should HATE every current and past gaming journo because they are the ones who shepherded the industry into the garbage condition it is todayfuck colin moriarty shabbos goy never mentions wokeism or shit games hes a kosher conservative and fuck jeff gerstmann too
>>750691576Those perks aren't golden handcuffs. Golden handcuffs are like a pension after 25 years of service where you "retire" at 55 to start your "second career" while drawing your pension. You know like stare employees. The handcuffs keep you employed there. No amount of free office shit like coffee would keep me in a job like gamedev.
>>750716403Roko will judge you by your evil deeds.
>games are all faggy gay nutsack shit >no one buys them except for faggy gay nutsacks who make up less than 1% of the population OH NOOOOOOO WHY THIS HABBEN TO MEEEEEEE
>>750687691>do nothing>winI must be a fucking champion for me to be slaying these trolls and cretins left and right without even doing anything. Someone get me a crown or something, I'm a king!
>>750687717fpbp
>>750687691The entire world is collapsing in case you haven't noticed
>>750687691I work in a factory assembling circuit boards.No chance of getting a permanent contract, if I am lucky I can stay for 4 or 5 years. No stability, not learning any skills that can transfer to any other job, it's what it is.Hopefully I can get some luck with art in the meantime but I'm not counting on anything good to happen.
>>750690753Unless the barista offers breast milk I'm not interested and it's a pointless role
>>750706389Yeah midterms are even harder to predict what with the whole not everyone voting thing.
programmers should unionize, especially vidyagame ones
>>750697348Based and fuck california.
I am the consumer. I have made my voice heard numerous times. I have been told I am a bad person and that they don't want my money. I have done my part of saving the industry.
>>750722007maybe the bombs will drop for real next year
>>750687691They should have made more games like Ghost of Yotei.
>>750687691Good. It is my hobby, not theirs.
The doing nothings will continue until vidya improves.
>>750698757Coping nigger
>>750687691I was made sure to not care around 2014. I was declared dead, in fact. The dead do do nothing, after all.
>>750722518Honestly, the position I'm in feels shit, I don't know what I can or should do to change things for the better. I'd love the idea to take my life in my own hands but I'm too dumb to know how. Seeing the world burn is becoming more and more appealing.
>>750722340The president's party historically loses seats in midterms. The GOP is about to get fucked harder than an Epstein victim.
>>750687691Everytime americans are dominating gaming, we get a crash.I wonder why
>>750687751buddy lost his arm while welding for pipelines, sideboom operator fell asleep on the controls and ripped off his arm.
>>750687691CHUDDA PLEASE THE LIBS THEY NEED TO EAT CHUDDA STOP MEDITATING CHUDDHA STOP DOING NOTHING AND BUY THE SHITTY PRODUCT CHUDDAAAAAHHHAAAAAAAA
>>750687691i was told they don't want me as a customer
>>750690695Connect lines unironically lol
>>750687691Good. I don't want wokeslop in my video games.I want beautiful sorceresses with giant tits.
>>750723894>Unironically posting LoliMODS
>>750721838Only the parts that have been fucking around, doing stupid shit that obviously doesn't work, for too long.
>>750687809But that is exactly what's been going on? It is really difficult to create a new franchise today, meanwhile all well established names keep hoarding the players. And someone suggests you to buy and play something new, you just call them shills and continue doing nothing.
>>750687691Good devs are all doing fine. What crash?
>>750687801Skyrim was terrible you zoomer retard
>>750687691>only tranny studios affected
>>750687691And by doing nothing I am winning.
>>750708763Because the world gay and retarded.
>>750708763Can someone explain me how did you come to that conclusion when the struggle is about technology and its advancements making it more profitable to make 1 product and redistribute it to everyone around the world with little to no extra costs?>bro so what if everyone sends their money to 1 guy
Man, if only 90% of game dev studios getting layoffs weren't situated in some of the most expensive places to live in North America.
>>750687691They know what makes money and choose not to do it. I choose not to buy their homo games.
Yotei was such a stunning success they laid off 10% of their staff?Maybe they should have done that port?
>>750727305Yeah why don't they just sell porn and drugs. Everyone would be so much happier that way.
