Son of a bitch
What a shame - Netflix have given up on doing anything at all imaginative, and have fallen back on making Harry Potter and FIFA games, chucking everyone else to the wolves.
In some ways, having someone with a head for business would appear to make sense for a gaming studio. You could look at most of the announcements from eg. Obsidian or Double Fine on their intention to make ‘Scope Creep: The Video Game’, guaranteed to release massively over-budget to critical success but modest sales which will put the studio into a lot of trouble; and think that someone holding the purse strings, keeping the creatives from their worst excesses, and vetoing any really stupid ideas would be a clever idea. Unfortunately, this role always seems to go to dumb-arse dipshits without a single thought in their heads.
Would appear that an Indie Studio of three people might be ideal - Suspicious Developments, Team Cherry, Cuzzillo/Boch/Foddy have put out some great stuff recently. Small enough to stay focussed, and also small enough to put in a few years of polish without running up crazy bills. Seems like Night School, being four people, was just a bit too big.
cloud game
fucking bye
“Thank you for doing great work, this will help us bring in more monies. Unfortunately due to budget constraints we have to let you all go now.”
Make a bad game? Unemployment.
Make a great game? Also unemployment.
What’s the fucking point to any of this.
“Game developer” isn’t a full-time job, it’s just seasonal help.
Companies only need game developers during “we need to make a game” season. After that season is over they let most of the seasonal help go but keep a few for “the game will need patches” season. Once that season’s over it moves in to “sit back and count the monies” season, where game developers are totally useless because they’ve all been laid off so they have no monies to count.
Shareholders returns mostly.
I fucking hate business majors, get them the hell out of video game development.
You can’t run a videogame company if you think like a business suit.
Honestly get them the hell out of society altogether
What truly ruined creative work is the involvement of finance/business bros.
Everyone is hiring these fuckwits to extract every last drop of profit from everything they can, instead of being happy with spending money to make money…
One of the most difficult skills you have to learn as an artist is when to stop extracting, when to stop squeezing, when to let go and let something grow into a living thing far bigger than you.
Business majors and finance people are monomaniacally obsessed with extracting and squeezing until they smash their environment into a brickwall, at which point their job begins and they can scoop up valuable debris from the resulting calamity for cheap.
Scum of the Earth.
Business Idiots. It’s a pervasive problem. The people making decisions are not the people doing labor. They’re often so far removed from normal life, that they can’t even relate to regular humans anymore. How is some asshole with a full time personal assistant and high six figure salary supposed to relate to someone making median income and renting with 2 housemates?
Fuck 'em. Labor should take back what it built.
You can if all you want to do is make money. They’ve been doing it for decades, whether we like the end result or not.
I had no idea Night School was acquired by Netflix. I love their games. They deserve better.
Thanks for making us money! Now back in your fucking hole slaves!
