PlushKlavier wrote:

I'm glad you work in a good company but your experiences are not universal, I'm specifically talking about big corpos such as Ubisoft who's still in hot water for not addressing the sexual harassment that is happening in the company while continuously pushing for NFTs to be the big thing in gaming despite it not adding anything new and only being a cash grab for the company, ActiBlizz who is currently being sued for sexual harassment that got bad enough an employee took her own life because of it and actively hired a union-busting firm, Sony who's putting in microtransactions AFTER reviews for a game have rolled in and then getting the game patched to make grinding even more tedious so microtransactions look more appealing, EA who absolutely REFUSES to address the fact that lootboxes are gambling and is fighting tooth and nail in the courts because they don't want to take responsibility and have lootboxes considered gambling despite the fact that it is and that there have been a lot of studies already saying that people get addicted to buying lootboxes the same way people develop a gambling addiction and actually financially ruined people and places like the Netherlands and Belgium already banned lootboxes under the gambling law, CD Project Red that had their devs crunch ungodly amounts just to get Cyberpunk 2077 released ASAP instead of delaying it for the time it needed to actually be a functional game, Bethesda that released Fallout 76 so broken they were actually FORCED to give refunds to the people who bought the game, EA that released Battlefield 2042 in such a broken state it has been completely abandoned and not even cheaters are creating tools for it anymore because of the bugs interfering with the tools and the amount of players is too low to make it worth their time, and lets not even start on what Konami has become (spoiler: they've become a pachinko company)

Higher up execs in corpos like these 100% run the company and only think about profit and the investors while having the devs struggling and protesting their decisions, there's a difference between putting in microtransactions just so you can support the game and have some pretty cosmetics or a few powerups, and microtransactions that are actively predatory and designed to make F2P players struggle in a game that was designed to be P2W (a very prevalent trend and most commonly found in MMOs)

Companies releasing games that are broken and still have people pay full price for it has become a problem because they expect it to be fixable with a few patches and then have it bounce back a la No Man's Sky style, no one has learned anything from Anthem, Fallout 76 was on extremely thin ice already but somehow saved themselves

I'm not blindly hating just to be hating, I'm not directing it at just about any video game company in general, I'm directing it at real problems, I know what I'm talking about here because all of these things get reported on by video game journalists as well as knowing people myself who work inside the industry, and they confirm that abuse and crunch is very much a problem inside the industry, these are all very real issues that need to be addressed, there's a reason why people are calling for more and better regulation in the video game industry

The art of making video games has become lost to a lot of these companies, EA for example who just keeps reskinning their FIFA games and even downgrades them compared to the previous releases while still charging the same price for it, or Ubisoft who keeps clinging onto the same formula for every IP and keeps making games that have no innovation in their gameplay where the only difference in the games are the settings they're in, these games aren't being made for entertainment anymore but are being churned out for a quick profit because they know it WORKS, they know people will buy it

There are only a few triple A companies left that are making games with passion, and when they release a game the game is GOOD, unfortunately they do not make up a majority of the industry, or rather they get overshadowed by all the problems the industry is facing

I have not been excited for a popular IP release in ages due to these problems and the severe burnout on these IPs due to more frequent releases that don't really innovate on anything, I think the last big IP I was excited for was Animal Crossing: New Horizon, nowadays I mostly stick to indie companies, really looking forward to a few indie releases that are coming up

I didn't find it important to say it, but I work at Ubisoft LMAO. So again I know what I am talking about from inside.
And yes, I am a woman in this industry. :)
I am not gonna contradict with you because everyone see this as personal as they want. 

bitch bitch ahhhh all yall bitches was wrong talking how i fell off you aint even get on bitch bitch yahhhhh all you bitches is precious wait i meant to say jealous all you bitches is jealous bitch bitch

emmyluna wrote:

Deffo next on my list - Curon comes with Netflix and couldn't sfind anywhere to stream Inland Empire for free, so will rent it from ITV after! Thank you so much for the suggestions! <3 

Last paranormal film I watched was the Ritual and even the great Anthony Hopkins couldn't save that film from being awful, bless him. 

Ritual really disappointed me too :/ If you have netflix I can send you more recommendations since last couple of years I watched only Netflix tv-shows. Didn't like much Netflix movies tho except few exceptions. The autopsy of Jane Doe was on and off at Netflix. Another great one. It disappeared soon after I watched it but later it came back again. 

Omg I, the Ubisoft legend! Hope you’re having a good time there you icon. They need a new skinny female supermodel Assassin’s Creed MC for the next game, tell them ASAP!

LillyAnn wrote:

emmyluna wrote:

Deffo next on my list - Curon comes with Netflix and couldn't sfind anywhere to stream Inland Empire for free, so will rent it from ITV after! Thank you so much for the suggestions! <3 

Last paranormal film I watched was the Ritual and even the great Anthony Hopkins couldn't save that film from being awful, bless him. 

Ritual really disappointed me too :/ If you have netflix I can send you more recommendations since last couple of years I watched only Netflix tv-shows. Didn't like much Netflix movies tho except few exceptions. The autopsy of Jane Doe was on and off at Netflix. Another great one. It disappeared soon after I watched it but later it came back again. 

Was gonna watch that but wasn't sure! That's going on the list!

Archive 81 was also phenomenal. Prefer it when films/shows get you emotionally invested in the characters, for better or for worse, which a lot of paranormal/spooky films don't because they end up dead anyway loool

lolol

ButterfIy wrote:

Omg I, the Ubisoft legend! Hope you’re having a good time there you icon. They need a new skinny female supermodel Assassin’s Creed MC for the next game, tell them ASAP!

Thank you <33
I will propose myself for the model lmao and I will have a cute butterflies on my armor!

Periodt!!

when my roommates leave dirty dishes in the sink and then because there's not room in the sink, all over the house, I start seeing red lmfaoooo like yallre really gunna wait around for someone else to do your damn dishes for you? I'm not a maid or your mother I don't want to do your dishes mf.... and yet I do them anyway because I can't stand to have a dirty house like that, and I want to cook and use the dishes they leave out >:( just aggravating AND I asked them to stop leaving silverware on the side with the garbage disposal because they can fall in the drain and they brushed me off Like okay but I'm not gunna stick my arm in there when it happens and if yall break the damn thing it ain't my fault. I wouldn't be so angry if we hadn't already had talks about the dishes it's just frustrating to keep having to get on them, they're all a year older than me and it pisses me off. one of my roommates is at least really good about it but the other two suck about it and idk whatever it's not even that big of a deal I'm just mad I had to touch their crusted on food ToT

PlushKlavier wrote:

I'm glad you work in a good company but your experiences are not universal, I'm specifically talking about big corpos such as Ubisoft who's still in hot water for not addressing the sexual harassment that is happening in the company while continuously pushing for NFTs to be the big thing in gaming despite it not adding anything new and only being a cash grab for the company, ActiBlizz who is currently being sued for sexual harassment that got bad enough an employee took her own life because of it and actively hired a union-busting firm, Sony who's putting in microtransactions AFTER reviews for a game have rolled in and then getting the game patched to make grinding even more tedious so microtransactions look more appealing, EA who absolutely REFUSES to address the fact that lootboxes are gambling and is fighting tooth and nail in the courts because they don't want to take responsibility and have lootboxes considered gambling despite the fact that it is and that there have been a lot of studies already saying that people get addicted to buying lootboxes the same way people develop a gambling addiction and actually financially ruined people and places like the Netherlands and Belgium already banned lootboxes under the gambling law, CD Project Red that had their devs crunch ungodly amounts just to get Cyberpunk 2077 released ASAP instead of delaying it for the time it needed to actually be a functional game, Bethesda that released Fallout 76 so broken they were actually FORCED to give refunds to the people who bought the game, EA that released Battlefield 2042 in such a broken state it has been completely abandoned and not even cheaters are creating tools for it anymore because of the bugs interfering with the tools and the amount of players is too low to make it worth their time, and lets not even start on what Konami has become (spoiler: they've become a pachinko company)

Higher up execs in corpos like these 100% run the company and only think about profit and the investors while having the devs struggling and protesting their decisions, there's a difference between putting in microtransactions just so you can support the game and have some pretty cosmetics or a few powerups, and microtransactions that are actively predatory and designed to make F2P players struggle in a game that was designed to be P2W (a very prevalent trend and most commonly found in MMOs)

Companies releasing games that are broken and still have people pay full price for it has become a problem because they expect it to be fixable with a few patches and then have it bounce back a la No Man's Sky style, no one has learned anything from Anthem, Fallout 76 was on extremely thin ice already but somehow saved themselves

I'm not blindly hating just to be hating, I'm not directing it at just about any video game company in general, I'm directing it at real problems, I know what I'm talking about here because all of these things get reported on by video game journalists as well as knowing people myself who work inside the industry, and they confirm that abuse and crunch is very much a problem inside the industry, these are all very real issues that need to be addressed, there's a reason why people are calling for more and better regulation in the video game industry

The art of making video games has become lost to a lot of these companies, EA for example who just keeps reskinning their FIFA games and even downgrades them compared to the previous releases while still charging the same price for it, or Ubisoft who keeps clinging onto the same formula for every IP and keeps making games that have no innovation in their gameplay where the only difference in the games are the settings they're in, these games aren't being made for entertainment anymore but are being churned out for a quick profit because they know it WORKS, they know people will buy it

There are only a few triple A companies left that are making games with passion, and when they release a game the game is GOOD, unfortunately they do not make up a majority of the industry, or rather they get overshadowed by all the problems the industry is facing

I have not been excited for a popular IP release in ages due to these problems and the severe burnout on these IPs due to more frequent releases that don't really innovate on anything, I think the last big IP I was excited for was Animal Crossing: New Horizon, nowadays I mostly stick to indie companies, really looking forward to a few indie releases that are coming up

You are kinda forgetting what the industry is... and has become throughout the years. It's a business.
After half a century, the market has become overly saturated like in every single industry available in this world. Like resources on our planet slowly diminishing by consuming more and more, movie ideas are being recycled more than actual environment saving recycling, clothing brands that sell products that look as cheap as they are being produced with the price being multiplied by 100 (at best), how many INOVATIVE ideas can companies deliver without having to compromise the profit? Every single company "steals" ideas from each other, leaks are being intentionally spread for the public in order for the other companies to see how well or bad other companies are doing. Nothing is new anymore. Animal Crossing has been around for more than 10 years and the idea of it is basically the same, lots of features are moved from game to game so where is the innovation there? (Disclaimer: I am not bashing the game or saying that is a bad game what so ever)

I am not praising the decisions of upper management as I work in one of those companies that you have mentioned. I myself get extremely frustrated when one of the hundred of thousands of issues submitted throughout a project is waved for future patches or verified as not a defect due to the lack of time to fix (many of which are waved from game to game). I however learned how the industry works and having to deal with a glitch can fuck up a whole quest for example, having to wave something in a 1st day patch can save you more money and work hours than you can imagine. 

Mentioning the headlines of the scandals that circulated in the last years does not mean that you know what you are talking about (don't take offence please as I am trying to share some sides of stories that are being manipulated by media in order to create clicks. Clicks = $$$). As I have previously mentioned, I myself work in one of the companies that you have listed above and there are no such issues as the media made them to be. I am not saying that there are lies, I am saying that many of the stories are being exaggerated in order to attract waves and waves of criticism towards "named" company. By doing that the shareholders and stockholders are being forced to sell to not lose profit and Predator companies hover around to buy whatever they can in order to overcome the competition (example: Activision, Tencent)

Also, as the industry evolves, the cost of making a game is SIGNIFICANTLY higher than only 5 years ago... as the hardware is more advanced, the costs of creating an updated engine that works well with the new hardware are way higher, not to mention the games being bigger and bigger every year. Look at the size of the games that were released 10 years ago (size in game and size on the HDD). Having to pay "full price" for a work of thousands of people for a game that will receive updates for not being perfect and eventually will go on sale is more than supporting towards those people. The bigger the company the bigger the number of employees, the greater the costs of paying them and giving them more than a decent living. On this note, I am not saying that the payment is evenly or fairly spread, yet on this topic the employee is the one that should be bothered by it, not the consumer. If I don't consider that my payment is not enough it is my responsibility to do something about it by talking to my manager/HR or just leave the company and go to another. 

My advice for people like you is simple. If you don't like a product or a publisher/developer, their practices or tactics, ideas or plans for the future... don't buy their shit. Hating on the subject will not change anything (I've been there myself as well), doing something about it will. If all the social justice warriors will DO something instead of just hating, the world would be a better place xD Having to bash a company, you bash on the hardworking employees as well and that may be seen as offensive. 

Wishing you to find the things that you enjoy and focus on them more rather than hating. No hard feelings towards you and I hope you feel the same. ^_^