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Old 09-26-2023, 08:57 AM   #15121
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God man, ransomware is so fucking easy to defeat. That's literally a small sliver of my job - to ensure if we get hit with something like that, we're in a recoverable spot.


That's probably why sony doesn't give a single F. Random java libraries and html code are also very stupid. If they operate as a modern company, shit is containerized and one blob of code won't do shit.


Not gonna drone(pool) on about this boring type of infrastructure shit.
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Old 09-26-2023, 08:03 PM   #15122
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According to reports, members of the SAG-AFTRA recently voted in favor of approving a potential video game strike within the near future.

According to the SAG-AFTRA, the reason for the vote was due to recent negotiations with several gaming companies being unsuccessful in regards to the terms for the Interactive Media Agreement meant to help their members in the gaming industry.

These terms revolve around three main issues involving enacting protections against exploitative usage of AI that would harm their members jobs, increase in wages to compensate with the rising costs of living due to current inflation issues, and better safety protocols for stunt performers and voice actors.

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Hollywood has been brought to a near screeching halt due to the SAG-AFTRA strike which concerns many pressing issues in the entertainment industry, including payment for streaming residuals and worries regarding the ethical use of AI.

As reported on September 25, 98.32% of SAG-AFTRA members approved a video game strike. This does not mean that a strike has been called, though it does give SAG-AFTRA greater bargaining power during the next round of negotiations which will take place from September 26 to 28.

According to SAG-AFTRA, since 2022 it has been in negotiations with several gaming studios that had signed the Interactive Media Agreement. SAG-AFTRA claims the negotiations have been unsuccessful and “companies have refused to offer acceptable terms on some of the issues most critical to our members, including wages that keep up with inflation, protections around exploitative uses of artificial intelligence, and basic safety precautions.”

Gaming, film, and television have some overlap as they all rely on writers and performers. Hence, the three industries do occasionally find themselves with shared goals. This is explained by chief contracts officer Ray Rodriguez who states that because of the “exploitative uses of AI and lagging wages, those who work in video games are facing many of the same issues as those who work in film and television.”

If negotiations aren’t fruitful, we could face an industry-wide strike that would slow down the development of video games. These studios are part of the negotiations: Activision Productions Inc., Blindlight LLC, Disney Character Voices Inc., Electronic Arts Productions Inc., Epic Games, Inc., Formosa Interactive LLC, Insomniac Games Inc., Take 2 Productions Inc., VoiceWorks Productions Inc., and WB Games Inc. The three main issues SAG-AFTRA is discussing are:
  • AI protections around consent, control, transparency and compensation.
  • Wage increases that reflect compensation erosion due to inflation.
  • Safety for on-camera performers and vocal stress protections for voice artists.

We aren’t facing a strike just yet, as there are a few more days of negotiations left. However, with the approval, there is authorization to call a strike at any time. The growing encroachment of AI on the entertainment industry cannot be ignored, and the outcome of these discussions will determine whether this technology’s impact is positive or destructive.
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Old 09-28-2023, 06:44 PM   #15123
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Today's News:
* Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reported and later confirmed by Sony that Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan will be stepping down from the company and retiring in March of 2024. It was stated that Sony Group President, COO, and CFO Hiroki Totoki will be taking over as the new SIE President and CEO next year. Prior to the announcement, Ryan has been with Sony since 1994 and has been the head of SIE since 2019.
Link: https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/st...49244996505858 , https://sonyinteractive.com/en/press...tertainment-2/

* Epic Games reportedly recently laid off around 830 employees, roughly 16% of their total workforce, according to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier. Epic later confirmed that the report was true and stated that the official reason was due to slimmer margins from its shared revenue. The company also announced that they will be divesting from Bandcamp and SuperAwesome with around 250 of the 830 total layoffs being from those two companies. In an internal email sent by Epic CEO Tim Sweeney to Epic's employees, Sweeney blamed them spending way more money than they were bringing in and implied declining revenues from Fortnite as the causes for the layoffs decision.
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...or-16-of-staff , https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US...ayoffs-at-epic , https://www.destructoid.com/epic-gam...loyee-layoffs/

* Speaking of Fortnite, Epic also recently announced that the game's V-Bucks system will be getting a price hike starting this October. Game Mess & GiantBomb's Jeff Grubb stated in today's Game Mess Morning show that this new price hike is directly related to the recent layoffs at Epic and their Fortinite money train no longer being on a constant upward swing bringing in the big bucks it used to do and starting to plateau instead.
Link: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/...-bucks-prices/ , https://www.giantbomb.com/shows/game...-23/2970-22554

* SEGA Sammy recently announced that they have cancelled development for several projects including Hyenas from Creative Assembly, developer of Alien Isolation.
Link: https://www.destructoid.com/hyenas-t...een-cancelled/
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Old 09-28-2023, 09:51 PM   #15124
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lol, massive layoffs and a price hike on top of it. GFY Epic
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Old 09-29-2023, 12:06 AM   #15125
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Turns out Mediatonic, Fall Guys developer, got hit the hardest by Epic recently layoffs to the point of being decimated according to reports.

Initial reports were the gutting be a total one with the entire staff being laid off and the studio currently exists in name only but Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reported that his sources stated that it was a very serious one but the studio still has some employees remaining and will not be shutting down.
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Old 09-29-2023, 11:21 AM   #15126
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Right. WTF is this horse shit mentality? Let's fuck up some people's livelihoods and then pass that on to our customers.
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Old 09-29-2023, 10:12 PM   #15127
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Old 10-03-2023, 07:36 PM   #15128
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Today's News
* Epic Games was recently involved in a new scandal regarding allegations of failing to pay royalties to the creator of the Hatoful Boyfriend following Epic purchasing the developer of it Mediatonic in 2021. The game's creator Hato Moa recently went on Twitter and revealed that he has not received any royalty check despite Epic continuing to earn sales off the game. Following Moa going public with his allegations, Epic responded to him on Twitter and stated that they would look into resolving he issue.
Link: https://twitter.com/moa810/status/1707541071205724413 , https://twitter.com/EpicPublishing/s...05501277253790 , https://www.destructoid.com/epic-is-...riend-creator/

* According to Kotaku, Naughty Dog was recently hit with a wave layoffs with around 25 employees currently believed to have been let go from the company. It was also reportedly that the developer is also currently dealing with serious issues related to the development of the multiplayer spin-off game for their The Last of Us series and it is currently on an "on ice" status following Sony diverting money away from the project.
Link: https://kotaku.com/naughty-dog-ps5-p...ffs-1850893794

* To continue the trend of today's bad news theme, Team 17 is currently rumored to be getting hit with a "significant" amount of layoffs following the recent departure of the company's CEO, according to Eurogamer.
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Team17, the publisher of works such as Blasphemous 2, Gord, and Moving Out 2 has entered “a period of consultation,” meaning the company will seek to identify potential redundancies in the organization.

Eurogamer first reported that “significant job losses” at Team17 are expected, with the majority impacting the internal QA, and that company CEO Michael Pattison is leaving. Team17 confirmed that it’s “amicably parted ways” with Pattison in a statement via VG247 ...

Employees were reportedly made aware of potential layoffs in a letter following an emergency town hall. In the letter, the company reportedly praised employees for the company’s significant growth in the first half of 2023 ...

This past March, Team17 experienced layoffs impacting its art and design teams, via Eurogamer. If this current consultation period results in layoffs, this will be the second round this calendar year. In the report by VG247, an unnamed source claims Team17’s marketing department looks to be shrinking by a range of “20-30%,” in addition to the loss of around 50 QA department roles reported by Eurogamer.

Filling the vacant CEO role will reportedly be Ann Hurley, the commercial operations director for Team17. Pattison joined Team17 in 2021 after serving for over eight years at PlayStation.
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Today's News:
* According to French media outlet Libération, five former Ubisoft executives were recently arrested in France following a criminal investigation into allegations of them committing sexual assault and harassment during their time in the company. Among those arrested were former Ubisoft CCO Serge Hascoët, and former Editorial VP Tommy François.
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Five former Ubisoft executives have been arrested following an investigation into sexual assault and harassment at the company. As French publication Libération reports, three of the arrests were made yesterday, and two were made today.

It is not known yet whether the arrested individuals have been charged, and if so for what. However, it is reported that the arrests come following an investigation of complaints by the Solidaires Informatique union and two victims. According to one of the plaintiff’s lawyers, Maude Beckers, the case encompasses more than individual behavior and also concerns “systemic sexual violence.”

Thus far, only two arrested individuals have been named. The first is former Ubisoft chief creative officer Serge Hascoët, and the other is former editorial vice president Tommy François. Both individuals left Ubisoft in 2020.

Over the years, reports emerged painting a pattern of sexual harassment at Ubisoft. When these allegations began making headlines, Ubisoft claimed it would launch an investigation and take the appropriate disciplinary actions. Since then, many higher-ups have stepped down or been terminated from the company, including those former execs and others. The allegations were enough to also trigger a legal investigation.

In a statement to GamesIndustry.biz, Ubisoft said: “”Ubisoft has no knowledge of what has been shared and therefore can’t comment.”
Link: https://www.liberation.fr/culture/je...EPBZEM3W5WHRU/ , https://www.destructoid.com/former-u...investigation/

* According to reports, Twitch was recently hit with a new wave of layoffs on Tuesday. It was reported that this new wave was significantly smaller than the prior wave of layoffs that were 400 in total for Twitch out of 9,000 from Amazon.
Link: https://twitter.com/zachbussey/statu...15502881484865 , https://www.gamesindustry.biz/twitch...und-of-layoffs , https://www.destructoid.com/twitch-r...-more-layoffs/

* Nintendo announced earlier today that they will be shutting down all online server support for the 3DS and Wii U in April of 2024.
Link: https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/...18623566020975
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I really despise the phrasing "(insert company) was hit by a wave of layoffs" . Makes the company itself sound like the poor victim instead of the ones doing the laying off, while making record profits.

No shade towards you, smeat. I know you're just posting this stuff as its reported.
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Yeah it is an odd way of phrasing things depending on the situation.

Like with WWE in wrestling or Epic Games in gaming, both of their recent wave of layoffs were a lot more on the scummy side since those were not financially-related in the sense of neither company hurting for money.

Then you have something like Team17's recent layoffs where that phrase would fit better since it was an internal decision and not from some parent company and their financial situation and future being a lot bleaker.

Then you have something more of the middle with Embracer Group where it is a case of them being both scummy and being in a serious financial pickle with both being of their own making.
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Today's News:
* Telltale Games, the new one and not the original one, recently joined the growing pile of game companies and studios to undergo sizable layoffs. In a statement to Destructoid, a Telltale Games rep stated that the official reason was due to "current market conditions" affecting the company but declined to state how many people were laid off. It was also stated that despite the layoffs, all of their projects are still currently in production.
Link: https://www.destructoid.com/telltale...ong-us-2-news/

* Sony recently announced that around 6,000 current and former employees had their personal data stolen and expose to hackers from a hacking attack on the company on May 28th. It was stated that company officials only discovered what had happened on June 2nd and the current belief is no customer or business partners related data was access during this attack. It is currently not known if this attack was related to the hacking attack that was being claimed by a group called Ransomed.vc last month. This past May's attack was stated by Sony to have been triggered by a vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer platform that also affected a lot of other companies and US government agencies.
Link: https://www.destructoid.com/sony-con...cyber-attacks/

* The Verge reported that one source spoken to stated that Microsoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard could be finalized and closed as early as the end of next week depending on any new actions from the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority.
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Today's News:
* Unity recently announced that their CEO John Riccitiello has recently left the company. While the official reason was not given, it is currently assumed to be due to Riccitiello being the main person responsible for the controversial changes to Unity's engine "Runtime Fee" payment system that led to serious backlash against the company and serious drop of support by developers and studios.
Link: https://www.businesswire.com/news/ho...hip-Transition , https://www.destructoid.com/unity-ce...s-the-company/

* For those interested in a skinny PS5, Sony recently announced that a new and slimmer model of the PS5 will be released this holiday season at a price tag of $499.99 for the standard disc model and $449.99 for the digital only discless model.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BU4VXofbQk

* According to a report from Bloomberg, Disney advisors are currently pushing Disney CEO Bob Iger to move Disney into a new direction in the gaming industry from being just a game license distributor into becoming a new major gaming publisher. One of the plans reportedly involves Disney buying up studios and companies with EA being targeted as a potential future acquisition. It was reported that Iger is currently against the idea but this is believed to be something he might eventually relent based on how a similar situation took place when it came to sports gambling through ESPN.
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...wall#xj4y7vzkg , https://www.destructoid.com/disney-c...-gaming-giant/
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Nerd/fan boy rant incoming: learned more about the project that is Silent Hill: Ascension, which is due to get started on Halloween and my thoughts are mixed. An interactive show sounds promising and it's a cool idea, but I'd be more on board if this were a different IP or at least run by people who know what they're doing, which has been my feelings about virtually every new Silent Hill project for the last 15 years. The trailers give me no confidence and it'd probably be for the best that Konami just stops with all of this or at least sell the IP off.
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* According to a report from Bloomberg, Disney advisors are currently pushing Disney CEO Bob Iger to move Disney into a new direction in the gaming industry from being just a game license distributor into becoming a new major gaming publisher. One of the plans reportedly involves Disney buying up studios and companies with EA being targeted as a potential future acquisition. It was reported that Iger is currently against the idea but this is believed to be something he might eventually relent based on how a similar situation took place when it came to sports gambling through ESPN.
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This make a bit of sense. Because growing up for every Disney movie that got made, a video game followed. I know for a fact that I have the Beauty & the Beast, Aladdin, and Lion King games for Genesis. I think I had Tarzan for PS1.

But they're already doing fine with Star Wars and Marvel games (Spider-Man aside).
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What kind of satanic ritual will be necessary to merge EA and Disney?

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How long before Disney basically rules the world and starts sponsoring fighting tournaments a la Ultratech in Killer Instinct?
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And with that, Bobby Kotick is exiting the company at the start of 2024.


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Today's News:
* Voice actor Kevin Afghani revealed on Twitter that he is the official new voice actor for Mario and Luigi for the upcoming Super Mario Bros Wonder game. Nintendo confirmed the announcement in a statement to The Verge.
Link: https://twitter.com/KevinAfghani/sta...00880218181648 , https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/13/...-kevin-afghani

* As noted before, Worms series developer Team 17 has been expected to lay off a sizeable portion of their staff following the recent departure of their CEO due to serious financial related issues. In an update, Eurogamer reported that their sources stated that Team 17 is currently set to lay off around a third of their workforce and development for several upcoming games is currently believed to be in jeopardy.
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According to Game World Observer, Cryptic Studios and Zen Studios were the latest studios under Embracer's umbrella to get the mass layoffs treatment from Embracer over Embracer's current serious financial-related issues.

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Spotted by Twitter user Timur222 and reported by Game World Observer it appears that the latest to be affected by layoffs within Embracer Group and the video game industry in general are Cryptic Studios and Zen Studios.

The news has come as a result of multiple employees within the studios updating their Linkedin profiles to seek new employment opportunities. Because of this, it’s unknown just how many are affected by these layoffs, which appear to have happened last week, and Embracer has not released a statement to clarify.

Cryptic Studios rose to prominence with the development of City of Heroes (my favorite MMO) and continues to maintain Champions Online, Star Trek Online, and Neverwinter. Meanwhile, Zen Studios is the developer behind the Zen Pinball and Pinball FX series.

The layoffs are part of a continued cost-cutting campaign by Embracer Group. The company had previously launched an aggressive acquisition campaign and bought out a number of developers, large and small. This seems to be related to a $2 Billion dollar investment that reportedly fell through earlier in the year.
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According to Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, Bungie laid off an unknown number of employees today.

Schreier reported that Bungie CEO Pete Parsons had sent a company-wide internal email earlier in the day stating that the company would be holding a big meeting but did not state what it was for at the time. During the meeting, it was revealed that this was for the announcement of layoffs being done at the company.

Schreier also reported that those spoken to within Bungie stated that Bungie has delayed their upcoming The Final Shape expansion pack from February 2024 to a new date of June 2024 and also delayed their upcoming new Marathon game until 2025.

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In what’s already been a crazy 2023, it appears another big studio has undergone layoffs. An email sent to Bungie employees from Bungie CEO Pete Parsons indicated staff would be “hearing some news today” and that a team meeting scheduled for later would “discuss today’s events”. Jason Schreier at Bloomberg saw and reported the circulating email.

As of now the exact number of employees affected by the layoffs is unknown, but Twitter is already full of Bungie employees sharing the news that they have been laid off.

“I’ve been laid off from Bungie. A surreal thing to write as I sit here pondering what went wrong. I’m still processing it all and while my first instinct is anger I know I’d regret what I’d say. Thank you to everyone at Bungie who helped make my last 5+ years the best ever.”
– Griffin Bennett, Social Media Lead at Bungie

According to Bloomberg, employees also indicated delays across the board at Bungie. Upcoming Destiny 2 expansion The Final Shape has been pushed from February 2024 to June 2024. Also, Bungie’s next game, a sci-fi extraction shooter titled Marathon has been delayed to 2025.

Bungie joins a huge list of studios that have cut employees this year, which has led to one of the more tumultuous waves of layoffs the industry has seen in a while. The growing list includes Epic Games, Striking Distance Studios, CD Projekt Red, multiple studios owned by Embracer Group including Beamdog and Crystal Dynamics, Ubisoft, BioWare, Relic, Riot, Firaxis, Microsoft, Twitch, Naughty Dog, and Team17. This year has also seen the shutdown of several studios including Dang!, PixelOpus, Vanpool, and Volition Games.
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Today's News:
* According to a rumor going around the net, the next WWE video game is currently planned to feature a tribute to the late Bray Wyatt and his WWE career. The same rumor stated that this might not be for WWE 2K24 and instead be for a different WWE game in production by 2K Games.
Link: https://cultaholic.com/posts/report-...wyatt-s-career

* In an update to the recent news of Bungie laying off a portion of their staff yesterday, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reported that around 8% of Bungie's staff was laid off and the reason was due to financial-related reasons over Bungie missing their target expectations for projected revenues from Destiny 2 by around 45% for this year. This reportedly was around 100 people who got laid off out of a total staff of around 1,200. Schreier also reported that there were no advance warnings by the company of layoffs being imminent until yesterday's layoffs happened.
Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...Zskdkj539g7ooo

* Forbes' Paul Tassi reported that the recent layoffs at Bungie were not a decision that came from Sony management but there have been some rumblings of Sony is currently planning to do some company-wide cost-cutting measures that could lead to layoffs at other Sony-owned studios and departments within the near future.
Link: https://twitter.com/PaulTassi/status...96652996317488

* Nintendo's successor console to the Switch is currently rumored to potentially feature 3DS-style dual screen capabilities based on a patent filed by the company last year. This patent also reveals that the two screens can also be disconnected from each other and act as two separate devices.
Link: https://hypebeast.com/2023/10/ninten...umors-3ds-info
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It's kind of depressing that most of these daily updates lately are about "company making billions of dollars hand over fist has laid off ____ hundred employees"

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IMO - they screwed themselves with the music director. Halo's and Destiny's music is very good, easily identifiable and recognized. This will be a major blow, IMO.
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Its pretty much the gaming industry trying to get back to pre-COVID pandemic levels in terms of cutting back on the over-hiring and the massive sums of money they were spending like crazy. Same thing is happening in the tech industry as well over the same issues.

That only happened due to a combo of the big sums of money the government gave to prevent massive layoffs during the pandemic and consumers spending more on gaming and less elsewhere for their entertainment.

Even the retro gaming industry got hit hard once things started to go back to normal with people cutting back on the massive spending for old games and consoles and flooding the market with them getting rid of that stuff.
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I don't buy that for a single solitary moment.

I understand that they fell 45% short, but how is that on the workers in any capacity? It isn't. It's more corpo puppetry man.

I was let go from a tech job and was cited a similar BS line. Yet the company was VERY profitable, full stop.

The people doing the projections are to blame. In regards to the Bungie specific scenario, they overshot with their expectations on Lightfall. It is barely an "expansion" in it's own right. On top of that, you had to pay a 2nd time just to get access to the new dungeon.

Pay to get access to new stuff, then pay again for more access. They have put themselves in microtransaction hell and the consumers are no longer buying. That's why their product took a big shit.

Next up:

Delaying all projects due to "recent cutbacks" and needing "more time" to work with more intimate headcount. This will be defined as "right-sizing".

Fuck them all for upending the lives of (mostly) every day people. The fucking people at the top should be held accountable for shitty business decisions.
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Yeah its a very greed-based reaction over Bungie's big money train with Destiny not printing money like crazy like before and Bungie didn't have a real Plan B for when this moment would happen for their projections that didn't involve just laying off a ton of people.

Same happened with Epic Games who pretty much is being propped up by the huge sums of money from their Fortnite and Unreal Engine money trains. At least with the Fortnite money train, that pretty much has been subsidizing the huge money pit that the Epic Games Store has become and some of the big acquisition purchases Epic has done in recent years. Fortnite is still printing a ton of money for Epic but because its not at the insane level anymore, Epic decided to break the glass and start laying off people and get rid of some of those acquisitions.

Rest of the gaming industry is a mix of that and them just growing way too much and too fast during the pandemic and now those unsustainable revenues expectations are no longer possible.
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Personally, I hope we see video game and tech industry unions soon.

It'll be too late for me, but we get fucked over hard, daily. And it gets whitewashed with sentiments such as "Oh it's tech, there's a million tech jobs and they pay $$$$"

That's a big fucking lie.
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I don't buy that for a single solitary moment.

I understand that they fell 45% short, but how is that on the workers in any capacity? It isn't. It's more corpo puppetry man.

I was let go from a tech job and was cited a similar BS line. Yet the company was VERY profitable, full stop.

The people doing the projections are to blame. In regards to the Bungie specific scenario, they overshot with their expectations on Lightfall. It is barely an "expansion" in it's own right. On top of that, you had to pay a 2nd time just to get access to the new dungeon.

Pay to get access to new stuff, then pay again for more access. They have put themselves in microtransaction hell and the consumers are no longer buying. That's why their product took a big shit.

Next up:

Delaying all projects due to "recent cutbacks" and needing "more time" to work with more intimate headcount. This will be defined as "right-sizing".

Fuck them all for upending the lives of (mostly) every day people. The fucking people at the top should be held accountable for shitty business decisions.

Lightfall was the first expansion I didn't get and I havn't touched it since. From everything I've seen since, it's just gotten worse.
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Same.

Bought it for THE BOY because he really enjoys it and has gotten into raids. He was able to complete the newest raid on competition mode and is eligible for the raid ring they make.

We are going to get it for him, as he is a "collector" of things like that. He doesn't know.
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Blizzcon starts today. I'm not sure why I keep rewarding ABK with my interest but meh, maybe Metzen being back in the WoW fold will spark something cool for next expansion.
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Its pretty much the gaming industry trying to get back to pre-COVID pandemic levels in terms of cutting back on the over-hiring and the massive sums of money they were spending like crazy. Same thing is happening in the tech industry as well over the same issues.

That only happened due to a combo of the big sums of money the government gave to prevent massive layoffs during the pandemic and consumers spending more on gaming and less elsewhere for their entertainment.

Even the retro gaming industry got hit hard once things started to go back to normal with people cutting back on the massive spending for old games and consoles and flooding the market with them getting rid of that stuff.
Yeah I kind of get that, it's something of a "correction" to get back to how things were. But man. You'd think that these multi-billion dollar companies would be able to figure out ways to make things work and not ruin hundreds of lives.
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Old 11-07-2023, 06:19 PM   #15159
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Nintendo announced that a live action Legend of Zelda film is currently in production with Sony Pictures and Arad Productions Inc. and Shigeru Miyamoto and Avi Arad as its co-producers.

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Nintendo has announced that it will develop a live-action film of The Legend of Zelda.

The film will be produced by Shigeru Miyamoto, representative director and fellow of Nintendo and veteran Hollywood producer Avi Arad, the former chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment.

The film will be produced by Nintendo and Arad Productions Inc., and directed by Wes Ball, the director behind the Maze Runner trilogy and next year’s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

The film will be co-financed by Nintendo and Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., with more than 50% financed by Nintendo.

“By producing visual contents of Nintendo IP by itself, Nintendo is creating new opportunities to have people from around the world to access the world of entertainment which Nintendo has built, through different means apart from its dedicated game consoles,” the company said.

“By getting deeply involved in the movie production with the aim to put smiles on everyone’s faces through entertainment, Nintendo will continue its efforts to produce unique entertainment and deliver it to as many people as possible.”

Shigeru Miyamoto said in a statement: “I have been working on the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda for many years now with Avi Arad-san, who has produced many mega hit films.

“I have asked Avi-san to produce this film with me, and we have now officially started the development of the film with Nintendo itself heavily involved in the production. It will take time until its completion, but I hope you look forward to seeing it.”

Nintendo’s first modern Hollywood production, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, was a co-production between Illumination (Minions, Despicable Me) and Nintendo. So far it has generated over $1.3 billion at the global box office since its early April release.
Link: https://www.videogameschronicle.com/...n-zelda-movie/
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In more somber news, Ubisoft recently joined the growing big pile of gaming-based companies that have laid off a sizeable portion of their workforce over the past year.

Around 124 employees reportedly were laid off today and affecting a variety of departments and studios, according to Kotaku.

Official reason given was current restructuring plans by the company.

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Today, Ubisoft will lay off 124 employees as part of a cost cutting strategy. These departures are happening across several of its departments, including many at its Canadian offices.

The layoffs are hitting a variety of departments at Ubisoft, including some administrative teams, Ubisoft IT, and Hybride, the company’s SFX studio. In a statement to Kotaku, the company explained the reasoning behind the move.

“Ubisoft is proceeding with a collective dismissal in its Montreal establishment within the framework of a reorganization of its production support services across Canada, by consolidating these functions Canada wide, Ubisoft will be able to optimize its resources to be more sustainable in the long term.”

The company also said it is “providing comprehensive support for our colleagues who will be leaving Ubisoft during this transition” and emphasized that the current restructuring won’t have an effect on its production teams.

Ubisoft as a whole has been facing challenges lately. Lengthy delays for games like Beyond Good and Evil 2 and xDefiant have undoubtedly affected the company. Just this May, Ubisoft let go dozens of employees at its North Carolina and Newcastle locations. Employees at the time said they were given no notice that they would be losing their jobs.

Sadly this is part of an ongoing trend in the gaming industry this year. In September Epic Games cut 16% of its workforce. Just last month Naughty Dog and Telltale Games were hit by a wave of layoffs. More than a dozen different companies have faced layoffs in the back half of 2023 alone.
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