Smart. Very smart. AAA publishers are only going to get worse, so it’s important to keep your franchises/IPs and cut loose in this day and age. It’s going to be tough without the rich sociopaths’ money, but in this industry the AAA model is just not sustainable with little to gain as a dev. 

How interesting. They laid off 800 people last March so they could restructure and focus on the right projects https://kotaku.com/ea-layoffs-jobs-andrew-wilson-profits-electronic-arts-1850281078. I’m sure this time the restructuring will work and that it has nothing to do with giving more money to execs or stock…

I cannot, for the life of me, understand what on earth would lead them to cancel a Respawn Star Wars FPS. The Jedi games (licensed) have sold well, Titanfall (original) didn’t. Why would a genre they have excelled at (FPS) with a license that has sold games (Star Wars) not be a shoo-in? It’s absolutely possible it was…

“Dynamic pricing is a strategy used by Uber, Ticketmaster, and other internet-native businesses TERRIBLE COMPANIES”

God damnit. You start with “The Expanse is getting.....” but the sentence doesn’t end with “...a new season”. Really messed me up there Cheryl.

Sacrifices must be made to the almighty Shareholder Gods!

I generally hate to generalize when something goes to shit but I swear to God every horrible thing to come out of the economy can be traced back to the Reagan years.

I was feeling pretty agnostic about which Dem wound up with Feinstein’s old seat, but knowing that these people really don’t want her to have the job, suddenly I *very much* want her to have the job.

Launched on October 20, 2023, as a PlayStation 5 exclusive, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 generated about 2.5 million unit sales upon release. After three months on the market, lifetime unit sales of the game amounted to 10 million, making the action-adventure title one of the best-selling PS5 exclusives ever.

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Porter is top of the bunch currently for me. I feel Schiff would be another corporate democrat.

Well some of that is correct. Money exists because having a central currency system that everyone agrees to use makes a billion times more sense than using a barter system or a currency tied to a finite and hoardable resource, which is why no country still uses a “gold standard” afaik.

Our economy is dependent on the myth of unlimited growth.

Texas has a right to protect its children from the detrimental effects of pornographic content

I just talked to an executive at a very smart tech company that decided not to lay off their entire talent staff during the tech recession, but instead to re-train them to do other critical tasks.  This way, they get people who know the company doing important stuff, and the talent staff will be in place to snatch the…

Of course there’s fucking stock buy backs.

Another week, another comment from Beefsquatch reminding saying bring back the guillotine. Late stage capitalism is the enemy and shareholders are the cancer 

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100%. I work for a fortune 500, and it is the same cycle every time. Our economy is dependent on the myth of unlimited growth. When you lay off all of these people, it frees up reporting cash for shareholders to see. Which means when they actually do have growth, they will need to re-hire anyways and have massive…

Over 6000 layoffs in the video game industry, but how many people have been laid off in the Tech Industry altogether from 2023-present? The fact that companies can just throw their workers away while claiming record profits is ugly capitalism at its finest, but the sheer unchecked accountability for companies to…