>make incredibly successful game
>get fired anyway
Why would anyone willingly work in the gaming industry at this point

why are people pretending this is a real story? do zoomers really not know that businesses still fire people during good times?

>>715716631 (OP)
Sorry, you needed an 88 or higher to keep your job

The studio targeted by the lay-offs is actually a contractor studio that works on many other games. For example, they are responsible for the Cyberpunk 2.3 patch from yesterday. It's disingenuous to pin it on Oblivion Remaster.

>>715716631 (OP)
>sign a contract to work for 30 months
>30 months later
>nooooo you cant fire me Im working here for 30 months!!

>finish job
>expect to be paid forever

Game “devs” are a real gem

>>715716846
Is it game devs or is it "journalists"
>noo I wrote that shit article six months ago you should pay me royalties and salary forever

>>715716631 (OP)
That's been Bethsda's MO for fucking ages. Every studio they've ever published for or worked with has ended up with a knife in their back. Everybody always cites New Vegas fuckery, but Tango was meddeled in non-stop to the point all their games were a bit jumbled till Hi Fi. Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners was a ploy to kill and buy out its studios scraps. Not sure if it's more them or M$ for Arcane doing the whole Redfall thing.

>>715716631 (OP)
>make game
They didn't make Oblivion
>get fired
They finished the work they were hired to do. What would they still be getting paid for? They don't make games.

>>715716631 (OP)
Eventually people will stop joining these companies and then they'll have nobody to fire.

>Ctrl + F "Chuds won"
>No results
Huh? Why aren't chuds claiming a big victory here?

>>715716631 (OP)
Their fault for working for Microsoft. You will be fired and replaced by AI(All Indians)

This is the contractor based system that publishers have been pushed towards
>Everyone should have a lifetime position in their company
>Also no AI to speed up development cycles
>Also VAs deserve residual payments
>Also we want bonuses for delivering on time
>Also we want compensation if the project takes too long
Honestly it took a very long time for video game production to turn in to construction style contracting but that's exactly what's happening here. You cant please everyone AND be a contractor AND pay VAs residuals (reminder that SAG AFTRA fought 5 years for this shit) AND get bonuses AND go over budget.

Very entitled mentality to feel you're owed a job when the entire industry is now balls deep in contract work. This is why it's really only internal studios that consistently put out good work on budget and after close working with the publisher. Everyone else, Virtuos included, are contractors and it's up to their business leads to constantly be pursuing new projects to keep workflow and income coming.

>>715718103
jeeze, not only is OP a repost most of the comments are too. bot thread

>>715716631 (OP)
>laid off
didnt bethesda hire the studio SPECIFICALLY to make Oblivion Remastered? The article makes it sounds like bethesda has lay offs why are so many journalists such fucking scu,?

>>715718103
It's not like the remake turned half of the cast into redguards. Other than the body type selection at the start there wasn't anything super woke about the remake.

>>715719279
So chuds have just been gazing at stars and taking credit for business movements that have nothing to do with them and their culture war?

>>715717034
Nta but journalists have article quotas that they need to comply with. Which is why you so many click bait articles because journos need to write so many articles or else they'd be out of a job.
If you were a 3d designer for a game that jusr came out and theres no new projects or dlc coming up and you are considered redundant, then they have no use for you

>>715716631 (OP)
Bethesda/Microsoft apparently canceled a new project and then told them to fuck off.

They honestly deserved to be laid off, because Oblivion Remastered was released in a terrible state. Not to mention that it took over a month to finally release a single patch, and two months to finally fix critical bugs that caused crashing. This kind of shit just can't be tolerated.

>>715716631 (OP)
>successful game
Notice you didn't say good. It wasn't, so I don't care.

>>715716631 (OP)
>chefs fired after serving reheated leftovers from 20 years ago

>>715721561
Why would your subjective opinion on whether it's good or not matter in a discussion about business

>>715722678
It's not subjective. The valence of someone's actions decides my sympathy for them. Make shit games, get fired, I'll be cheering instead.