Don't ascribe morality to companies. A company exists to make money, generally, and a company is not a person. If a company is incredibly small and privately owned, the owner may have other goals besides growth and making the most money.
Any company that is publicly traded is a corporation and is obligated to make the most money it can, you cannot ascribe morality to this kind of organization. It is an entity which exists for the purpose of growing and making profit.
I can't imagine getting this mad at a post and then doing nothing to actually correct it or make actual counterpoints.This might be the most virtue signaling post of all time?!!?!?!?
"Hey only businesses called companies or corporations that do things I/we don't like...why can't they be like this business that totally is not a company or corporation...that people that frequently post on a videogaming message board of a few thousand people like?"
Do you understand how the word "Larian" totally exposes your argument? People...please go outside and stop basing things based on a few hundred people on Resetera because Resetera is so big and therefore important in the same way any message board in 2024 is important!
There are thousands of companies and hundreds of game releases per month...you picked Larian because it's a popular single player offline dev that is popular now HERE.Virtue signaling is a waste of time. I'm not trying to impress anyone. I'm just genuinely curious.
Also, Larian is over 470 people across 6 studios. Does that not count as a company?
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This is more thanks to Japanese employment law than anything. Without it, they would absolutely be on par with industry norms re: layoffs.Nintendo. They've not laid off a single dev and the despite laying off some contractors recently, they brought in a number in full-time (swore 50% was brought up but not certain if it's a fact or guess). Nintendo also prioritize quality and employee well-being. They don't have a 98% employee retention for nothing.
Didn't they just get out from under trying to create their own crypto coin?As whacky as it is I feel like we're in the beginning of a Square Enix comeback. They've finally stopped mucking around trying to make their own engine and released the last batch of titles (KH3, FF7 Remake part 1, Forspoken) that were severely negatively impacted by that. Their output has really stabilized since the 2010s and I'm looking forward to what they have to offer. The C-suite there seems really out of touch though.
Only for their own employees. We had semi big outrage about Nintendo of Americas contractors and we also recently got insight how hard it is of defacto Nintendo teams in Japan like Game Freak, Hal or Camelot.Isn't Nintendo generally good? At least in terms of looking after its staff
Okay? Larian and Remedy don't make my favorite games, but that's not the criteria here. They're of good quality, but they're not my favorite.There are thousands of companies and hundreds of game releases per month...you picked Larian because it's a popular single player offline dev that is popular now HERE.
It's disingenuous to feign naivete to make believe that "good" and "bad" company is somehow dramatically changed from some invisible change in gaming over the past few months/past year? I'm sorry you didn't notice the people leaving here, or the people that used to get banned here (that are suddenly not getting banned for saying the same things), predicting all the things that have happened to make people make these threads. There has been a big difference on criticism of certain large and popular brands/companies that were flatout being banned before...but now there are layoffs to that company someone here likes..so now we act like this is the first day on Earth and that only gaming companies we like are on some other planet...keep letting these people, regardless of if they are a person/company/corporations....tell you THAT WE NEED TO LAYOFF PEOPLE OR NOT GIVE RAISES BECAUSE OF INFLATION! Even though they are wildly profitable!
Didn't you know that the only companies that people layoffs are bad, and only when they are announced? Because everyone in the world announces when they layoff or fire people via press release, and it's Resetera...so the "good" companies are the same 5-7 single player offline-only dev companies that are immune to the "unionize everything"...while that "bad" companies are actually the ones that need unions are are ruining gaming but also tend to be multiplayer or mobile devs that Resetera hates?If anything, I feel like indie devs are as susceptible, if not more so than big studios to workplace toxicity. Running on lower budgets with less people enables less accountability for toxic behavior. It's not uncommon for the studio heads to inflict their power fantasy more directly to a team that receives much more face time with leadership by virtue of being a smaller studio. It's a big mistake to view indies as these cute, cuddly and wholesome do-gooders by default.
Sorry about that I thought my original post didn't fit the OP prompt very well so I changed it. That being said, yeah, SE still gets up to all sorts of crap like their recent musings on NFTs. I just think it's really evened out on the developer side of things.Didn't they just get out from under trying to create their own crypto coin?
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here. Big mobile publishers and developers like King and Rovio belong to groups that are massive and perform some egregious shit across multiple fronts, but that doesn't mean there aren't good mobile publishers or development companies. Just because I'm not aware of them doesn't mean they don't exist.Didn't you know that the only companies that people layoffs are bad, and only when they are announced? Because everyone in the world announces when they layoff or fire people via press release, and it's Resetera...so the "good" companies are the same 5-7 single player offline-only dev companies that are immune to the "unionize everything"...while that "bad" companies are actually the ones that need unions are are ruining gaming but also tend to be multiplayer or mobile devs that Resetera hates?
Just remember that rich people that run businesses...they are only bad when they become public and big!! Small businesses and devs that make single player games really don't care about money like that. But Insomniac...because of inflation...they really needed to charge $70 for Spiderman 2 just to break even!!!
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In private, they all act extremely similarly and sometimes that just so happens to leak out?There are companies that are bad public actors and there are companies that you don't know anything bad about.
IDK about that. I'd pay good money to be a fly on the wall during the 1980s startup days. I bet the screaming matches were epic.Nope. Same with the film, tv and music industry. It seems like things have gotten worse over time for the game industry but just imagine the stuff you don't hear about.
A public company's role is to expand profits quarter over quarter. Anything they can do to meet their projections is deemed necessary, and video games are an incredibly unregulated industry in the US.In private, they all act extremely similarly and sometimes that just so happens to leak out?
That's depressing as hell.
I mean.In private, they all act extremely similarly and sometimes that just so happens to leak out?
That's depressing as hell.
I might just have a problem living, honestly. Lots of things seem to be completely irrevocably fucked systematically with no way to effect change on an individual level. It's very hopeless.I think you have the wrong relationship with this industry if you think of companies as something that can be strictly "good"
As far as I know, there's Supergiant. But they're also an indie company, so perhaps this doesn't count?
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I mean we're talking mandatory holidays not holidays total. I maintain my stance, but that seems like an odd reaction.Only 20 days leave? How's that a good thing? Everywhere I've worked in the last 20 years has had at least 25 days in addition to public holidays.