It’s exceptionally common in the gaming industry because back in the 8bit days there wasn’t really an industry to speak of, just people coding at home and corporate structure that held them to contracts. The big successes then got to build teams around them, but never actually learned any social or business skills...…

I dunno, “managers not understanding or caring how much effort things actually take” is par for the course in every industry

This is literally most of corporate America and probably the rest of the world. 

Amount of times hearing stories about management and upper management being the issue is just ridiculous now, i feel so sorry for the people working at ground level who are aware of the issues but have no power to make changes while the idiots hold all the cards

Exactly; without a firm deadline, these guys produce dick-all. They need firm “or else” kind of deadlines.  I mean, most people need at least some kind of deadline to produce, but these “auteur” types need it even more than your average Joe or Jane.  I think he’s more just an egomaniacal dick than anything else,…

Setting aside whether the label truly fits Levine, the only way to get art out of an auteur is to give them a budget and a deadline and stick to it. If you do that, you’ll get art. It might be good or bad, and it might even be great.

This doesn’t just have to be an individual - it can be an entire studio. Halo Infinite’s development cycle was notoriously toxic and awful (even by Halo standards), and yet Jason Schreier himself basically dismissed the troubles because the game turned out pretty good. :-/

I bet all those dozens of people he fucked over out of their jobs by closing an entire studio are at least glad he’s succeeded to become one of the top blue tick crypto pushers on Twitter.

Can you guys please, please report on the fascist redpilled stuff they found all over the Steam top seller “Ready or Not”

I’m sure it’s all over your tips email and I even tweeted your EIC and nothing...

If Void really gave half a shit about “authenticity and realism” about being a cop in America, they’d put in a level where you kill a 14 year old girl shopping for her quinceanera dress because you started firing wildly in a packed mall a few days before Christmas. Or a level where you kettled protesters into a dead…

cry harder, cryptodouche. nobody wants you here.

“There’s no undo button on crypto“

All that the Blockchain cares about is verifying that each wallet ID is associated with a certain number of coins and transactions.

Scammers scamming scammers just trying not to be the last guy holding the bag.

I’m also getting really annoyed with people (such as the Wolffs) repeatedly saying Max earned it, and that he and Red Bull are great competitors and worthy champions, then in the next sentence saying “but it was unfairly stolen from us.” Until you cross the finish line first, it’s anyone’s race to lose. And I’m…

That’s a pretty douchey response to a well written and thoughtful critique of your post and Kotoku’s seemingly bipolar stance on things like microtransactions.

I hate to tell you this, dude, but your lengthy and biased opinion pieces aren’t exactly Pulitzer Prize material. I would suggest that you consider taking some…

Thats completely crap. Reason being in every prior release the multiplayer was included with the single player game. So, they took out what they were already going to develope for Halo, made it ‘free,’ which dropped the value of the base game already, and then stuck a bunch of predatory microtransactions in it to make…

Long time Halo fan here. I was 9 years old in 2001 when Halo came out. I’m almost 30 and have enjoyed every Halo game.

What 343/MS did here was look at Fortnite and try to replicate it. The problem with that undertaking is that it removes what people come to expect from Halo. Not only that, but in it’s current form…

Halo fans are very protective of their nostalgia and some aren’t happy if it isn’t exactly the way they want it. On top of that, F2P gamers aren’t happy with the way that the battle pass and progression is implemented. You have old school gamers and new school gamers arguing with each other and it's a clusterf***.

Them pointing fingers?
The whole western countries are masters in it.
Our whole standard of living is build upon the backs of poor countries, while we point the fingers at them...but without the willingness to pay more for it!

Oh its not allowed to work with this or that poisonous material here?
Well let the children…