But several people also noted that the games industry goes through cycles of mass layoffs, because simply having a stable business isn’t enough for investors. Revenues must grow by a chunky margin: if they don’t, costs must be cut. Embracer’s mishandling of their business might be grotesque, but it’s business as usual nonetheless. “We make a shitload of money, but it doesn’t go back into the games,” one person commented. “It goes into a lot of now very wealthy peoples’ pockets, and the people who actually make the games kind of scrape by, most of the time.”

late stage capitalism

intereresting read, thank you

enlighten us plebs with your wisdom and tell us which conclusion should be drawn then

Archived version

it’s fun in other languages too

Puta que pariu, quem foi o corno que escreveu essa merda? Vá tomar no cu, esse código não foi escrito, foi cagado. Que caralho de emprego bosta esse meu, ter que mexer com lixo fedorento igual esse. COMPILA, CACETE! Merda, saco, bosta, FDP, corno!!

eXtreme Go Horse (XGH) is a Brazilian meme software development process

it became a meme because it is painfully accurate at times :')

I develop software for a living and still this looks like deep, black magic to me

Kernel level anti-cheats are a must nowadays to lift the barrier to entry which excludes quite a bunch of cheaters.

$40 ain’t much of a barrier to entry

I’m curious about that too

EDIT: nevermind, another post below has the answer: it’s a programmable wheel

We live in a world where hundreds of millions of people are literally starving, dude.

Honestly, blacksmithing isn’t that hard

it’s well beyond the reach of most people, specially considering the price of the tooling alone

it does for me, usually by killing my session and throwing me back to the login screen

almost funny INTERCAL joke

So don’t play those games

…and I don’t, I prefer supporting indie devs

DLCs aren’t the only “evil”, there’s also the case for microtransactions and other stupid monetization bullshit schemes

But even rolling from there, a 300% hike in base prices would mean games cost $200, and that’s just not true.

if you consider that nowadays (almost) all games ship incomplete and demand DLCs… yeah, it’s true

You do realize indie devs consisting of one or two people are also businesses, right?

seems to me that there’s some sort of critical mass they need to achieve first before the fuckery sets in, small teams aren’t “evil” (yet) simply because they can’t be (yet)

EDIT I mean “evil” as in “we want profit above all else, let’s milk this cow dry until she dies”

new I am become chroot, destroyer of interviews