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PC Gamer taking a jab at the industry
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Sauce https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/foolproof-ways-to-get-laid-off-in-the-videogame-industry/
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Unionization is also super uncommon at these game development companies. Would definitely help prevent layoffs. True for every industry again, but they are underrepresented here.
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Almost none of this is unique to the gaming industry; it's all symptoms of under-regulated capitalism.It's not unique but the games industry is worse than most. There's a natural cycle to the development of a video game that's very atypical for most software products, involving a long slow ramp up of workforce followed by (unless you've been very very careful) a total lack of anything productive for 95% of any of those people to do for the forseeable future. What to do? Toss 'em on the street, that's what to do. Then couple that with it being a glitzy career that will attract lots of replacements for any of the hapless people you fired, which also applies to any way you want to abuse your employees or underpay them, and you have a recipe for lots and lots of abuse.
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The average vocal PC gamer also tends to have the top of the line components, so I just tend to think it's not the gaming part that makes them assholes; it's being rich.Very true. I vaguely recall someone on another thread saying a game is "unplayable" if it's not running 4k resolution and that PC gamers with 4k monitors are the majority
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Very true. I vaguely recall someone on another thread saying a game is "unplayable" if it's not running 4k resolution and that PC gamers with 4k monitors are the majority
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I regularly hear similar things about refresh rates, like "*once you try a 144hz monitor you can't go back*" — meanwhile, I power-limit my GPU to get ~50fps when the summer gets too hotI some discussion about Nvidia somebody what complaining how they were used to 200 fps at 4K but some graphics cards couldn't do it with raytracing on without using DLSS. As somebody else in that thread said, it's masturbatory fps numbers.
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> Unionization doesn’t _always_ prevent layoffs Fixed that for you. I'm sure you didn't mean to imply that unionization NEVER prevents or at least helps to prevent spurious mass layoffs, since that would make you a total imbecile about how labor relations in general and collective bargaining in particular works or at best an otherwise rational victim of gaslighting disinformation campaigns carried out on behalf of the people doing the layoffs.
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I have no idea but if I had to guess, I'd say the audience of PC Gamer is PC gamers, and the average PC gamer fucking sucks> the average _loud_ PC gamer fucking sucks Fixed it for you. Those assholes don't represent the average PC gamer any more accurately than the Gamergate troglodytes represent all gamers.
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I some discussion about Nvidia somebody what complaining how they were used to 200 fps at 4K but some graphics cards couldn't do it with raytracing on without using DLSS. As somebody else in that thread said, it's masturbatory fps numbers.You guys are helping my hardware inferiority complex (caused by the vocal ones always having systems that cost more than a decent used car) a lot! Thanks!
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It shouldn't be legal to report high earnings and lay off a large portion of your staff, that feels like something a poorly performing company would doThat‘s how it is in Germany. You can only get laid off without a negotiated severance package, when the employer is in financial trouble. Even then you need start laying people off according to the social contract (e.g. single mothers last). Both is really hard to proof (in court) so usually everyone gets a severance package anyway. This means when you hear about big layoffs in Germany usually all of them get a severance package or agree to something else. These layoffs are not comparable to the USA. This is the shortened and positive descriptions of the process, but of course there are also (justifiable) downsides of doing it this way.
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Sauce https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/foolproof-ways-to-get-laid-off-in-the-videogame-industry/
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It does not but the game industry has a lot of parallel to the movie industry l where some parts are very unionized.Unions are important for gig/contract work or else workers get abused and its a race to the bottom.
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It doesn’t always, but it can. I have been in a union. But thanks for assuming you know anything about me douchebag.Their name is Teddie K. They're a fascist who *at best* might have an eco in front.
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Sauce https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/foolproof-ways-to-get-laid-off-in-the-videogame-industry/
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I have a dream of making a game of my own one day, and I have already decided to self-publish it. It's the safest move.It's pretty easy on PC, with Steam itself and itch.io being pretty good for indies. Earning enough money from your game is a different story...
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It's not unique but the games industry is worse than most. There's a natural cycle to the development of a video game that's very atypical for most software products, involving a long slow ramp up of workforce followed by (unless you've been very very careful) a total lack of anything productive for 95% of any of those people to do for the forseeable future. What to do? Toss 'em on the street, that's what to do. Then couple that with it being a glitzy career that will attract lots of replacements for any of the hapless people you fired, which also applies to any way you want to abuse your employees or underpay them, and you have a recipe for lots and lots of abuse.> followed by (unless you’ve been very very careful) a total lack of anything productive for 95% of any of those people to do for the forseeable future It amazes me these game companies putting out game after game don't simply reassign these people to a future game. These are your seasoned veterans, they know how to do their job. Laying them off and picking up newbies just sets you up for a rocky future.
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That‘s how it is in Germany. You can only get laid off without a negotiated severance package, when the employer is in financial trouble. Even then you need start laying people off according to the social contract (e.g. single mothers last). Both is really hard to proof (in court) so usually everyone gets a severance package anyway. This means when you hear about big layoffs in Germany usually all of them get a severance package or agree to something else. These layoffs are not comparable to the USA. This is the shortened and positive descriptions of the process, but of course there are also (justifiable) downsides of doing it this way.
