The sheer amount of money hoarded by videogame executives is astounding, especially when you’re constantly told that videogames are too expensive to make.
Bobby Kotick just “halved” his pay, but is still in line to make hundreds of millions of dollars on top of the billions he has, and CD Projekt RED’s five board members just gave themselves enough money to cover over 800 people. The way in which this money is accumulated is often corrupt in and of itself.
Meanwhile, employees are abused and underpaid. Videogames cut more corners and add more predatory economies. We’re told there’s not enough money, but the truth is there’s MORE than enough. It’s just constantly sucked out of the industry by parasites.
I am amazed how effective Doom sound effects are when mixed into random childrens tv commercials.
Cross out the “video game” bit and replace it with just “corporate” and the video title still works honestly.
Half the reason I come here is for the amazing content, and the other half is seeing Sterling turn 80s UK TV adverts into Lovecraftian nightmares
Publishers are the appendix of the the video game industry. Once they did an important role but now it’s just there … till fails and bursts.
I’m always impressed by the amount and variety of great stock images / videos that Jim can find for their videos. So many clips of money counting, tossing, dancing, kissing, etc. So many videos of nameless corporate crowds sitting around chummily or clapping at nothing. So many great images to use
the same Bobby Kotick who is on Jeffrey Epstein’s flight logs
Ah yes, there are 300 cookies and 20 people.
Bobby Kotick takes 290 of the cookies and lays off 10 people so everyone can get a cookie. The proportions are probably closer then would be comfortable for anyone.
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Adjusted the numbers to closer reflect the reality.
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, not paying for their stuff could affect them.
Remember, the seven seas are always waiting for you.
You probably already know, but in case you didn’t, Australian ABC did a segment on video game addiction and loot boxes. You were shown for a brief moment in it.
“The Vatican of video games”
This is how I’m referring to Ubisoft from now on. Fucking love you Jim.
You know Jim Fucking Sterling & Son is serious when Born Depressed is used as the intro.
“Smaller performance bonuses” In Poland it means 100$ once in year per head and CEO handshake with “GET BACK To work or else”
I felt poor before watching this but now… man. You know what? I feel richer because of Jim’s knowledge.
“Ubisoft is the Vatican of video-games”
I know for a fact that Jim got a massive grin when they thought of that one.
Just realized kotick’s 200 mill is the entire development cost of gtav. they could have made gtav and instead they got themsleves a year of kotick.
Gotta love the fact that I am paying Kotick to be a billionaire when I haven’t bought an activision game in the last 6 years.
I think the other reason Iwata’s salary cut mattered was because, from everything I’ve heard, he did come to power from within the industry and actually cared about it. Unlike Kotic he actually had an idea of what it was like to be the one making the games, and thus his pay cut could be from actual empathy instead of calculation.
“This is the stuff that’s published”
As we say in the restaurant industry, “if that’s the state of the bathrooms, what’s the kitchen look like?”
“Don’t pirate video games or we’ll have to lay off all these hard working employees #cryingEmoji” … “We had to lay off employees so our CEOs could ‘earn’ bonuses high enough that they could buy multiple houses every year for the rest of their lives” Yeah that went about as expected