Epic Games laid off over 800 people because management decided to gamble on Metaverse Magic Beans. Capcom’s boss thinks game prices are too low. What do these two things have in common? They’re examples of how industry leaders are irresponsible with their money and pass the consequences onto anybody but themselves.
Also, a special friend returns to The Jimquisition…
(Video’s official full title is: Fiscal Responsibility, Or How Game Publishers Keep Painting Themselves Into A Monetary Corner Before Punishing Everybody Else For Their Short-Sighted F**king Stupidity)
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Nice Video Steph and nice rack <3
“Videogames are too expensive to make.”
How would you know, mr fancy CEO? You don’t make videogames, you make skinnerboxes.
Thank you for telling the truth about executive overpayment and layoffs, and thank you for all your work Steph! So refreshing to hear the bullshit called out for what it is… and fucking sick of toothless journalism
I rather spend my money on lattes and avocado toast than be a greedy dickhead. At least I am fed and not a corporate dickhead.
guess they never been to Canada >_>
games here are 100bucks!
Honestly, the state of the latest Mortal Kombat 1 is the tipping point for me regarding my years-long frustration with how unreasonably expensive and feature-lacking the fighting game genre has become that I am heavily considering making my game essayist debut over it. Also thank you for the recommendation for Clash Artifacts of Chaos. This really does look like something up my alley. Can’t believe it’s been out since March and not a single one in my circle of friends and content creators mentioned it to me before today. Ditto for El Paso Elsewhere although that did come out very recently.
I have never agreed with you more than on this video. This is a rant of epic proportions and you are fucking spot on!
Headlines should be “Epic games decimates itself to boost stock value”
The whole story they try to spin about “well games used to cost $70 back in the day” is also such disingenuous bullshit. Sure, games were more expensive back then because they were physical media with chipsets and memory. Then you went to optical media which was infinitely cheaper and we barely saw a price drop compared to how much cheaper they were to make. Games back then had to be made in fucking ASM and now you have these nice, shiny engines to build things in. Filthy corpos are the ones making things more expensive to make, not us. BG3 is the only game out this year that could match how much content Hades has and Hades was made by 12 people and sold for $30.
Game prices have risen quite recently.
They’ve gone from $60 to $70 USD.
I can’t help but wonder if the choice of Chop Goblins in the video was deliberate, considering that its developer David Szymanski (of Dusk and Iron Lung-fame) was in a Twitter-argument with Tim Sweeney of Epic, briefly before Epic announced all those layoffs.
Epic also said these lay offs are so they can continue funding their legal battles against Apple and Microsoft. So, there’s that too.
8:14 I haven’t gone to a concert in ~10 years now. I looked at ticket prices a day or two ago and laughed. And it wasn’t even a TicketBastard venue. Edit: For good measure, it wasn’t the price per ticket (which wasn’t _awful_ compared to what I remember, but the additional ~20% of ticket cost in assorted fees was)
Oh I have missed miniature Willem Dafoe, I feel whole again TwT
10:28 please do more of that, that was way too funny
Kiwi (the fruit, not the people)
Return of fasicsm? Oh, believe me, you will know when fascism returns. Long live Russia.
I’m excited about the report on the no-layoff myth you mentioned you’re working on. Another phenomenon that might fit in the report is bogus performance improvement plans. PIPs can be a legit, useful managing tool, but they can also be used to cover the company’s ass when they want to ax employees without admitting to layoffs. Just pick the lowest performing employees (even if their performance would normally be considered adequate), set unrealistic goals for accomplishing the PIP, shift the goalposts throughout, and if the employee still manages to do well, just say they didn’t and fire them anyway.
Unfortunately, I only know about these anecdotally and don’t know how one would go about studying them as a potential systemic issue. But if you can figure it out, it could be worth looking into.
FUCK LANDLORDS
(Especially the corporate ones)