Industry and Video game layoff thread |OT| Any future layoff info please place in here.

Doncortez77

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If this poster joins this forum or is here already, I'll gift him lifetime extra subscription for the forum.
How about this one also:
https://www.resetera.com/threads/ig...ts-video-game-workforce.809208/post-118131813

We've been gaslighted by pro-acquisition people over the last two years that capitalism won't do the thing it always will. Been spun a tale about how this merger will result in improved job security and that regulators like the FTC should be defunded for daring to oppose it. Dissenters got dogpiled and thread banned in the only discussion thread permitted on the forum.

You can interpret this as "platform warring" if you want but I am livid that people are losing their jobs and having years of work amount to nothing, including those who worked for my favourite developer. Inevitably the thing that many of us feared came to pass.

I think there is a lot more to discuss here than posts about "thoughts and prayers", there needs to be some introspection among games players, that cheering on these mega mergers does not result in more competition and innovation nor does it benefit the workers. Phil Spencer with his 8 figure salary is not your friend, those gamer t-shirts he wears does not mean he's going to bring back fan favourites from the '90s and the promise of unionisation does not mean there won't be mass layoffs.

Or we can go back to fantasising about Xbox buying Sega because it totally won't happen again, the next time will be different.
 

Yurinka

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wtf? that's all they do on era whenever PlayStation is even rumored to have bad news.
If this rumor exist it's just fud bullshit. Sony won't have any important layoff because they are having record revenue and profit.

As an example, Bungie are now around 1500 people and they were around 900 when their acquisition was announced, even if someone in the middle Bungie decided to fire around 100 people.
 
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But unions are bad, haven't you heard. Companies always want what's best for you, and unions are satan.
Unions can be corrupted cause people can be corrupted - i.e management. That's the only thing you can say or knock some unions about. Everything else is your typical brainwashing for idiots by economic elites. In a negotiation, bargaining leverage is king. As a single regular working ant you have very little if any leverage while as many, you at least stand a chance of getting something, unless of course, you happen to be the one-in-million talent. Since the majority don't stop being less a human because they're not that 1 in a million talent - yeah. What matters is the choice in a fair field.
 
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transistor you dog and the other dogs mods on era, c'mon ban them oppositions and prove 'em right because I knew deep down y'all just eksbotz cowards 🤣.
 
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“Don’t make it about the console wars” is the current stooge stance.

It was fair game when it was about Bungie… who is now bigger than it ever was. But the Bungie thing is also Bungie fandom… it’s always amplified.
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Love this post. He surely didn't do something like that in other threads like Embracer one


Nah that’s wild and completely hypocritical. The people in that thread calling out the mods are correct. This never happened in other threads so why now. The irony of citing console wars was the reason with a mod post reeking of warring.
 

Doncortez77

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It’s not just reeee. Microsoft must’ve sent out the official damage control line.




First of all…. Ybarra friggin’ quit. It’s definitely fair game for console wars.

What the Fuck Paul is going to do but cry like the whiny little snowflake bitch that he is.

"I swear to god"....What the fuck you going to do Paul??? lol, like he have any real power to do anything.
 

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Nah that’s wild and completely hypocritical. The people in that thread calling out the mods are correct. This never happened in other threads so why now. The irony of citing console wars was the reason with a mod post reeking of warring.

I don’t think there’s any doubts that Microsoft has influence over gaming media (and everything else) and it goes as far as forumgoers and paid social media influencers. They want to control the narrative.
 

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Smfh you can't even talk about the negatives of layoffs. Those ppl are the cesspool of irrational, hypocritical, ironic thinking.
Is Pelta not aware it's the same thing on GAF? It's smaller scale but it's the same MS evangelists heaven. There's barely a difference between both forums.
 
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I don’t think there’s any doubts that Microsoft has influence over gaming media (and everything else) and it goes as far as forumgoers and paid social media influencers. They want to control the narrative.

But we know how much Spencer and co fears bad press for the brand. It’s why these ambassador programs exist and why execs interact with these people; evangelism. And it works because a lot of these Xbox fans are often radical in the way they defend this brand.

It was brought up again on era recently how pro-PS the forum is and why Xboxera exists as Xbox fans were pushed out of the forum, in a thread about Avowed where people were saying how bad the combat looks. Any perceived attack on anything Xbox is an attack on the individual because that’s how much they’ve based their identity on Xbox.

Man, I do like era ngl, I enjoy the antics of some folks but damn that place irks me more and more every day. It’s why I made an account here 😂
 

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But we know how much Spencer and co fears bad press for the brand. It’s why these ambassador programs exist and why execs interact with these people; evangelism. And it works because a lot of these Xbox fans are often radical in the way they defend this brand.

It was brought up again on era recently how pro-PS the forum is and why Xboxera exists as Xbox fans were pushed out of the forum, in a thread about Avowed where people were saying how bad the combat looks. Any perceived attack on anything Xbox is an attack on the individual because that’s how much they’ve based their identity on Xbox.

Man, I do like era ngl, I enjoy the antics of some folks but damn that place irks me more and more every day. It’s why I made an account here 😂
Anyone who thinks resetera is Pro-PS isn't paying attention or isn't arguing in good faith.