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It’s simple. Game companies made a killing during the pandemic with money meant to sustain the economy. Now the economy isn’t so good and debt is expensive, so it’s time to cut headcount as fast as possible to book record profits. Same for most tech companies, hell companies in general.

Then they’ll start whining it’s hard to make money these days and they need a tax payer backed boost to get people working again “for the benefit of the economy”. They are holding it hostage, and the politicians are playing into it for personal gain.

Needless to say it’s not getting better any time soon.

The switch is 7 years old, the deck is barely 2 years old. There no need for a deck 2.

You think Sony forgot PSN isnt available in all countries?

They 100% knew, and didnt expect there would be enough people in those regions to cause a fuss.

They were gonna pull helldivers from steam in all countries without PSN, and that’s what they did. They didn’t care for reimbursements once the game got popular.

They just didn’t expect it to be very popular, which is probably why AH agreed to it in the first place

The day the 3rd party apps left reddit, I’ve been wandering around, looking for what once was

And most of it can be applied to any job. They went all the way to 54 because they needed to make a paper.

Butter. Most of the time the answer is Butter.

It would effectively not do anything for game devs to reduce it by 5%.

On the dev side steam provides distribution and a bunch of tools while you develop your game. Tomorrow you can pay 100$, and steam will support you with keys, releasing and publishing your game, reviewing it for free etc.

I have a game I’ve been developing for 5 years part time. I have steam keys I share with testers, and can distribute version for free, with all the patch notes and update features from steam for 100$.

When I do release, they’ll have earned the 30%, and if I don’t release I’ll have saved a ton and steam will take the costs. This greatly reduces the barrier to self-publishing. Out of all the companies I deal with, this is by far the fairest and lest predatory model there is. Gaben could have just bled us of our money even more and it would have worked. They are very rich because they are very humble in a sense.

Microsoft annual gross profit for 2022 was $135.62B, a 17.06% increase from 2021. Microsoft annual gross profit for 2021 was $115.856B, a 19.52% increase from 2020.

So yeah, 20% inflation a year amarite. “It’s just a fun buzzword!”. Sure the numbers are bigger in the end, but that’s not what anyone is talking about here when they mean record profits. Grab inflation, go back 20 years and show us.

The layoffs were not an immediate monetary issue.

They could have had a trillion dollars in their pocket and would still have let those people go, because that’s what the spreadsheet says to do. There is 0 human element or the concept of someone keeping their job. Even severance doesn’t matter, they don’t count it, they slip it as money they would have lost anyway, and then spin it into a gain when it’s less than what would have been lost by not cancelling the project these people were on.

This is the main issue really, yes spreadsheets, yes numbers but not at the expense of the population. And befor anyone comes in and tells me these corporations have rights, rememeber the only reason they were able to hire so many people in the first place is because of tax benefits during COVID. As tax payers, we paid for them to hire, and we are also paying for those who got let go while all these companies are recording record profits. Not just profits, RECORD PROFITS

Really? The audacity on these guys!