Hooray: ****** gamedevs being fired thread

[Tweed]

Ones about ugly pajeeta womyn beating up on white men don't sell and neither do ones about men kissing each other. For some reason devs have yet to learn this.

Imagine if someone actually made a game for the dominant market, imagine if they made games for white men.

[PixiGreen]

Sylvia Feketekuty, a Bioware Senior Writer with the company for 15 years, has announced her departure. She has no plans for the future. Can be her choice, sure, but that "no plans" part looks suspicious.

[RangerBoo]

Ones about ugly pajeeta womyn beating up on white men don't sell and neither do ones about men kissing each other. For some reason devs have yet to learn this.

Imagine if someone actually made a game for the dominant market, imagine if they made games for white men.

Here is the thing. What these devs are engaged in is a battle of attrition. They are making these games for the new audience that they hope will replace the old and "problematic" audience of straight white men. Their new audience that they are making games for is liberal women and queers. As we can see with this graph women have become more liberal (and ********) with every generation.

This is the "modern audience" that Western devs are making games for. They really believe that an audience of unhinged, woke, liberal women will be the future of gaming. What they are doing is trying to force the old audience out in favor of this new, more liberal and gynocentric market. However, they are facing a big problem in that the "modern audience" of liberal women aren't coming to buy and play their slop. Almost as if a majority of women don't like playing video games. They won't stop of course because they are cultists and "true believers". They will keep pandering to this demographic until they either get layoff or bought out by China.

[Tweed]

Ones about ugly pajeeta womyn beating up on white men don't sell and neither do ones about men kissing each other. For some reason devs have yet to learn this.

Imagine if someone actually made a game for the dominant market, imagine if they made games for white men.

Here is the thing. What these devs are engaged in is a battle of attrition. They are making these games for the new audience that they hope will replace the old and "problematic" audience of straight white men. Their new audience that they are making games for is liberal women and queers. As we can see with this graph women have become more liberal (and ********) with every generation.

This is the "modern audience" that Western devs are making games for. They really believe that an audience of unhinged, woke, liberal women will be the future of gaming. What they are doing is trying to force the old audience out in favor of this new, more liberal and gynocentric market. However, they are facing a big problem in that the "modern audience" of liberal women aren't coming to buy and play their slop. Almost as if a majority of women don't like playing video games. They won't stop of course because they are cultists and "true believers". They will keep pandering to this demographic until they either get layoff or bought out by China.

It's the Pink Lionel problem. You can't make women interested in things they're not interested in and trying to "feminize" a market designed, directed, and almost entirely supported by a male audience will end with your studio closing its doors.

[gerey]

They won't stop of course because they are cultists and "true believers". They will keep pandering to this demographic until they either get layoff or bought out by China.

To be fair, they're only allowed to release one dumpster fire after another because venture capital like BlackRock and hostile political organizations like CCP keep throwing money their way. **** and ****** are not allowing the market to self-correct as much as it should be doing.

[Roguey]

Ones about ugly pajeeta womyn beating up on white men don't sell and neither do ones about men kissing each other. For some reason devs have yet to learn this.

Imagine if someone actually made a game for the dominant market, imagine if they made games for white men.

Here is the thing. What these devs are engaged in is a battle of attrition. They are making these games for the new audience that they hope will replace the old and "problematic" audience of straight white men. Their new audience that they are making games for is liberal women and queers. As we can see with this graph women have become more liberal (and ********) with every generation.

This is the "modern audience" that Western devs are making games for. They really believe that an audience of unhinged, woke, liberal women will be the future of gaming. What they are doing is trying to force the old audience out in favor of this new, more liberal and gynocentric market. However, they are facing a big problem in that the "modern audience" of liberal women aren't coming to buy and play their slop. Almost as if a majority of women don't like playing video games. They won't stop of course because they are cultists and "true believers". They will keep pandering to this demographic until they either get layoff or bought out by China.

As far as as I can tell, the new audience is themselves. It's not so much pandering as it is self-indulgence.

Creative Directors & their creative teams have a huge amount of agency, and generally what they make (to a greater or lesser degree) is what they wanted to make. They themselves aren’t in charge of finding an audience. In a sense, they work with authentic artistic optimism. Ultimately however the market itself decides if it’s what wanted, or not. These are both fine. Healthier - in fact - than a retail store deciding.

There's a problem with how so many people in the entertainment industry don't have tastes/views that are in-line with the majority of people, sure. This lengthy Jewish take puts the blame on an Obama psy op.

[UltraFan123]

There's a problem with how so many people in the entertainment industry don't have tastes/views that are in-line with the majority of people, sure.

You hit the nail right in the head.

Back then the ones who made videogames were the ones who only wanted a fun experience with great mechanics and good stories, so what they wanted also aligned with what the majority of people wanted.

Now what modern game devs want in games is NOT what the majority of people want, hence why nobody is buying the stuff they make.

[Tweed]

As far as as I can tell, the new audience is themselves. It's not so much pandering as it is self-indulgence.

Well, it would explain why the heroes in most of these new flops look exactly like the developers.

[1998]

Ones about ugly pajeeta womyn beating up on white men don't sell and neither do ones about men kissing each other. For some reason devs have yet to learn this.

Imagine if someone actually made a game for the dominant market, imagine if they made games for white men.

Here is the thing. What these devs are engaged in is a battle of attrition. They are making these games for the new audience that they hope will replace the old and "problematic" audience of straight white men. Their new audience that they are making games for is liberal women and queers. As we can see with this graph women have become more liberal (and ********) with every generation.

This is the "modern audience" that Western devs are making games for. They really believe that an audience of unhinged, woke, liberal women will be the future of gaming. What they are doing is trying to force the old audience out in favor of this new, more liberal and gynocentric market. However, they are facing a big problem in that the "modern audience" of liberal women aren't coming to buy and play their slop. Almost as if a majority of women don't like playing video games. They won't stop of course because they are cultists and "true believers". They will keep pandering to this demographic until they either get layoff or bought out by China.

UK more lib than Germany?

And that huge gap in Korea also seems sus. They have basically only one gender, very hard to tell them apart most of the time.

[Stack of Turtles]

Ones about ugly pajeeta womyn beating up on white men don't sell and neither do ones about men kissing each other. For some reason devs have yet to learn this.

Imagine if someone actually made a game for the dominant market, imagine if they made games for white men.

Here is the thing. What these devs are engaged in is a battle of attrition. They are making these games for the new audience that they hope will replace the old and "problematic" audience of straight white men. Their new audience that they are making games for is liberal women and queers. As we can see with this graph women have become more liberal (and ********) with every generation.

This is the "modern audience" that Western devs are making games for. They really believe that an audience of unhinged, woke, liberal women will be the future of gaming. What they are doing is trying to force the old audience out in favor of this new, more liberal and gynocentric market. However, they are facing a big problem in that the "modern audience" of liberal women aren't coming to buy and play their slop. Almost as if a majority of women don't like playing video games. They won't stop of course because they are cultists and "true believers". They will keep pandering to this demographic until they either get layoff or bought out by China.

UK more lib than Germany?

And that huge gap in Korea also seems sus. They have basically only one gender, very hard to tell them apart most of the time.

It's easy to tell the difference because the women look manlier.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Now what modern game devs want in games is NOT what the majority of people want, hence why nobody is buying the stuff they make.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was released in 2020, it was hell of a woketrash and it generated over $1 billion in revenue, bg3 was also woke trash, sold good as well. Majority of people happily buyed this woke trash, played this woke trash and they liked this woke trash. No, there is something else.

[rusty_shackleford]

Now what modern game devs want in games is NOT what the majority of people want, hence why nobody is buying the stuff they make.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was released in 2020, it was hell of a woketrash and it generated over $1 billion in revenue, bg3 was also woke trash, sold good as well. Majority of people happily buyed this woke trash, played this woke trash and they liked this woke trash. No, there is something else.

I have strong doubts about Ubisoft's Valhalla claims.

Sorry, I just don't believe it sold 20+ million copies within two years of release. Something very fishy. There's no way Valhalla is within striking distance of CP 2077 sales.
Unless the sales fell completely flat since then, it would be at least a top 50 all-time best-seller yet they don't tout that at all?

[edit]
Yeah, it's definitely not 20+ million sold. It was 20 million "players"


They're including UPlay subscribers and UPlay membership revenue in their data. GamePass and UPlay also have some sort of cross-play where you can play Ubisoft games with it: https://gamepass.ubisoft.com/en-us

These subscription services let publishers fudge all the numbers they want.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Now what modern game devs want in games is NOT what the majority of people want, hence why nobody is buying the stuff they make.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was released in 2020, it was hell of a woketrash and it generated over $1 billion in revenue, bg3 was also woke trash, sold good as well. Majority of people happily buyed this woke trash, played this woke trash and they liked this woke trash. No, there is something else.

I have strong doubts about Ubisoft's Valhalla claims.

Sorry, I just don't believe it sold 20+ million copies within two years of release. Something very fishy. There's no way Valhalla is within striking distance of CP 2077 sales.
Unless the sales fell completely flat since then, it would be at least a top 50 all-time best-seller yet they don't tout that at all?

I had a theory that the game companies were repeating Disney: Disney was buying back tickets to their movies to cover up failure, maybe game companies are doing the exact same thing, but then with those advertising budgets the game never paid off, no profit to speak of. We can't rule out the normies factor, you can give them anything packaged like candy and they'll consume it like candy and not notice the difference.

[1998]

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was released in 2020, it was hell of a woketrash and it generated over $1 billion in revenue, bg3 was also woke trash, sold good as well. Majority of people happily buyed this woke trash, played this woke trash and they liked this woke trash. No, there is something else.

I have strong doubts about Ubisoft's Valhalla claims.

Sorry, I just don't believe it sold 20+ million copies within two years of release. Something very fishy. There's no way Valhalla is within striking distance of CP 2077 sales.
Unless the sales fell completely flat since then, it would be at least a top 50 all-time best-seller yet they don't tout that at all?

I had a theory that the game companies were repeating Disney: Disney was buying back tickets to their movies to cover up failure, maybe game companies are doing the exact same thing, but then with those advertising budgets the game never paid off, no profit to speak of. We can't rule out the normies factor, you can give them anything packaged like candy and they'll consume it like candy and not notice the difference.

Of course, the same for some Epic exclusive. They claimed that Metro Exodus has sold just as many copies as their previous game on Steam. Problem was, they were comparing I believe day 1 sales on Steam to 3 weeks sales on Epic.

And it was not only Exodus. Virtually all those high profile exclusives claimed it was a great choice, and sales number are UP UP UP. Of course, during the lawsuit everyone could see that this just was not true.

[Element]

UK more lib than Germany?

Yes

[UltraFan123]

Now what modern game devs want in games is NOT what the majority of people want, hence why nobody is buying the stuff they make.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was released in 2020, it was hell of a woketrash and it generated over $1 billion in revenue, bg3 was also woke trash, sold good as well. Majority of people happily buyed this woke trash, played this woke trash and they liked this woke trash. No, there is something else.

Alao, BG3 is the best example of "bait-and-switch" because the years-long Beta and even the finished Act 1 of the completed game were virtually woke free. So of anything, BG3 is an extreme outlier that shouldn't be considered the norm.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Now what modern game devs want in games is NOT what the majority of people want, hence why nobody is buying the stuff they make.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was released in 2020, it was hell of a woketrash and it generated over $1 billion in revenue, bg3 was also woke trash, sold good as well. Majority of people happily buyed this woke trash, played this woke trash and they liked this woke trash. No, there is something else.

Alao, BG3 is the best example of "bait-and-switch" because the years-long Beta and even the finished Act 1 of the completed game were virtually woke free. So of anything, BG3 is an extreme outlier that shouldn't be considered the norm.

People with brain would understand that this game is woke after release right in character creator, when we get negro and asian teflings and elves and Issue a refund. There was no bait and switch or if you call this bait and switch, then people had every opportunity to avoid it, but they choose not to.

[Havitner]

Disney was buying back tickets to their movies to cover up failure

According to a rando on the internet, this is much cheaper than one would think because of the way the box office revenue is split in certain markets (most/all of the US). For the first few days, the movie studio gets ~90% of the ticket revenue, and the movie theater only 10%. This gradually shifts the other way over the next few weeks of the movie's lifetime and usually ends with a roughly 50/50 split. But if the studios limit their proxy ticket buying to the first day, they get most of that money back.

It's a pretty cost-effective use of a movie's PR/advertising budget.

[Faceless_Sentinel]

Disney was buying back tickets to their movies to cover up failure

According to a rando on the internet, this is much cheaper than one would think because of the way the box office revenue is split in certain markets (most/all of the US). For the first few days, the movie studio gets ~90% of the ticket revenue, and the movie theater only 10%. This gradually shifts the other way over the next few weeks of the movie's lifetime and usually ends with a roughly 50/50 split. But if the studios limit their proxy ticket buying to the first day, they get most of that money back.

It's a pretty cost-effective use of a movie's PR/advertising budget.

Interesting, but you don't have this with game copies. I wonder what financial fraud they doing with games

[1998]

Splash Damage going down

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/splash-da ... ncellation

[1998]

Some people indeed continue to work on some other Bandai IP.

[Envuen]

https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-annou ... -185-staff

"Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff
Leamington closed as "targeted restructurings" hit other teams."

In preparation for the coming shitstorm that is their next big game

[Marcus]

https://www.eurogamer.net/ubisoft-annou ... -185-staff

"Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff
Leamington closed as "targeted restructurings" hit other teams."

In preparation for the coming shitstorm that is their next big game

The entire industry needs a "targeted restructuring".

[gerey]

And with this the total number of devs being laid off by the end of January 2025 is circa 600.

Quite a good haul if I say so. Not as good as January of 2024, but I have high hopes that Ubisoft will help pad the year out substantially.

[Tangerine]

And with this the total number of devs being laid off by the end of January 2025 is circa 600.

Quite a good haul if I say so. Not as good as January of 2024, but I have high hopes that Ubisoft will help pad the year out substantially.

Had no idea who they were, so I looked up what they worked on. Fae Farm, cozy farm sim slop with ****** and **** fairies.

faefarm_boxart.jpg

[gerey]

Fae Farm, cozy farm sim slop with ****** and **** fairies.

Also ***** pronouns.

[rusty_shackleford]

I heard there were 6 million game developers fired in 2024. Can anyone confirm this?

[gerey]

I heard there were 6 million game developers fired in 2024. Can anyone confirm this?

It's illegal to question these facts. 2024 was a true shoah.

[Rand]

Fae Farm, cozy farm sim slop with ****** and **** fairies.

Also ***** pronouns.

Troonouns

[UltraFan123]

And with this the total number of devs being laid off by the end of January 2025 is circa 600.

Quite a good haul if I say so. Not as good as January of 2024, but I have high hopes that Ubisoft will help pad the year out substantially.

Had no idea who they were, so I looked up what they worked on. Fae Farm, cozy farm sim slop with ****** and **** fairies.

I genuinely don't understand this obsession that modern game devs have for "cozy farm simulators". As if there aren't enough Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley rip-offs flooding the game market already.