Thread 719805452

>"Over 70%, and in some years 75%, of the layoffs have been in North America," Satvat shared. "North America used to have 30%, 35%, 40% of the open roles, and that number is now down to 25%. Overall employment in the industry has actually increased since pre-COVID. But if you're in North America in a AAA studio, you're like, 'what are you talking about? The workforce is cut by 15% to 20%'. Versus if you're in a studio in Asia you're like, 'What are you talking about? We've seen an increase in jobs'."
>"And here's another stat, over 50% of the cuts globally have been in California. California AAA is like the epicenter of the difficulty."

Why are top publishers like Xbox cutting and firing the most talented developers in the world? Americans and Californians are the most talented video game developers on the planet. Where will they go now? Is the video games industry doomed?

>>719805452 (OP)
>Americans are the most talented gamedevs on the planet

That used to be true, but a lot of those guys (now in their 50s) are just retiring and liberal diversity hire retards are filling the gaps. (Look at what's happened to places like Blizzard, Bungie, Bioware, Volition, Eidos, and the rest.)

Cali is still the largest spot for gamedev in the US, with Seattle in second and small pockets in Chicago, Texas, and Florida.

>why is Asia growing but the US shrinking?
Far cheaper wages in Asia and they'll work themselves to death. Plus, they haven't fallen for the AAA meme like the US, and don't have huge, bloated teams of 250+ people working on the same game for a decade.

t. gamedev in Seattle

Personally I wouldn't mind if all California devs got minecrafted (in Roblox).

>>719805452 (OP)
Thats amazing then,simply splendid! This information and data have truly made my week brighter! Thank you,OP.

I'm actually fine with that, fuck California.

>>719805452 (OP)
I dont care where they are, I hope devs get laid off all over the world

>>719805452 (OP)
you are a retarded subhuman shill

>>719805452 (OP)
>Amir Satvat
I still don't get what this guy does except being bald and ugly

>>719805934
>That used to be true, but a lot of those guys (now in their 50s) are just retiring and liberal diversity hire retards are filling the gaps. (Look at what's happened to places like Blizzard, Bungie, Bioware, Volition, Eidos, and the rest.)
The ones left of the "old guard" are washed as fuck and took the kool aid as well. DA Veilguard had a LOT of dudes who worked on the first one and look at how that turned out.

>>719806746
He was featured in the game awards last year for helping developers find jobs.

>>719807001
old white male nerds are the worst developers on the planet right now, old people cant make good games.

>>719806393
this

>HORRIBLE
You sure?

>>719805452 (OP)
go woke go bro-AC-ACK!

Guys, California is a shit hole. Please do not come here. I promise there is nothing good about it. Honest.

>>719805452 (OP)
>d Californians are the most talented video game developers on the planet.
heh

>>719805934
>(Look at what's happened to places like Blizzard, Bungie, Bioware, Volition, Eidos, and the rest.)
The original employees were shit too though. I don't think a single one of the "successor studios" they founded that billed their game as
>FROM THE CREATORS OF [game]
ever amounted to anything.
Look at Stormgate for example. the "former blizzard" studio spends 40 mil making a F2P game and achieves 100 concurrent users.

The success of those studios wasn't because of who worked there, it was the environment they made games in. They could make cheap experimental products for nerds, with a team of twenty guys, do it in 2 years, and have a state of the art game that tops the charts. Nowadays we call that an "indie game" and the good ones are selling better than ever. The AAA model, where you hire 1000 people for ten years, is an obvious dead end.

>do bad job
>get fired
Whatever could it mean?

>>719807873
Not all of them did bad jobs though, some just didn't do good enough jobs where the criteria for good enough was so high it couldn't realistically be achieved by anyone.

>>719805452 (OP)
what a tragedy, devs being paid 3 figures for 10 years and can't produce a game are getting fired

>>719808450
>devs being paid 3 figures
what did i mean by this

Is California the faggiest state in America?

>>719808547
Wishful thinking

Because they suck

You love to see it. So many talentless hacks "working" on the game industry. More need to be flushed out.

Oh look, those "America first" right-wingers are suddenly celebrating a bunch of Americans losing their job and having it outsourced to China and Japan.
Now you dipshits can't pretend this wasn't all about you hating brown people all along.

>>719807001
>>719807243
A lot of them were regular 'liberals' at the time they were good, but as liberalism morphed into the parody it is today, they went along mostly just to avoid rocking the boat and continue collecting their executive paychecks before retiring. Some are certainly useful idiots though.

>>719807672
The 'from the original designers of (whatever)' thing is just bait to attract VC funding. None of those studios has produced a noteworthy game. And the VC money for vidya dried up in 2022-2023 when they all started to realize they'd never see returns on their investments.

>>719805452 (OP)
LEARN TO SWIM
>LEARN TO SWIM
LEARN TO SWIM
>LEARN TO SWIM
LEARN TO SWIM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHcmnowjfrQ&list=RDrHcmnowjfrQ

>>719808917
Browns aren't making vidya in the US in any real quantity outside of MS using saars to handle Halo, and look how that's turning out.

>>719805452 (OP)
Post the webms.

>>719808917
hey bro if are getting replaced by chinese that barely started making games maybe it's a you problem :^)

>>719806393
It's still amazing how they speedran California in the 50s, a literal paradise on Earth, to what it is today.

I only care about British devs.
Last month I only played Total War and the two Yooka Laylee games, and I just bought Snake Pass.
Other European devs published by Paradox come second.

That makes sense. That state charges you and arm and a leg to just live there with very little benefit other than "prestige" of it being the Hollywood capital of the world, even though they've been making slop for a decade at this point or more.

>>719805452 (OP)
Gotta make more room for infinity Indians.
Indians are better than americans because uhhhhhh

>>719808917
If the shit you're making sucks, then I don't care how American you are. Your shit sucks, so I don't care if you lose your job.

>>719806210
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEZsGUqgtHQ

>>719805452 (OP)
I hate coastal urbanites so much it's unreal, much hate from arkansas.

>>719809764
all you americans are like that though

Layoffs in the game industry shouldn't even count as news
Stop working for AAA corpos, the entire employment structure revolves around laying off a portion of staff to pad earnings calls, and firing seniority to save money on raises.
EA and Actiblizz would die overnight if retards would stop working for them.

>>719808917
Trump said H-1Bs are good, so they're good. Simple as.
The white race has run its course, you deserve to be replaced.

>>719809764
Lol

>>719805452 (OP)
Maybe you Californians shouldn't have went woke and AAA, dumb little faggots.

LMAO
XD even.

>>719809764
The majority of the world's population lives along coastal areas.

>>719810137
Any job that can be reasonably done by AI (simple writing, simple art, simple animations, even simple code) means entry level jobs for it are almost non existent now.

>>719806746
>>719807176
he was outed as a jewish scammer
so simply he is a jew

>>719810010
everyone in that picture is either rich or upper middle class btw

>>719810756
>Commies still eat the narrative that farmers are rich hook line and sinker
Gonna try and starve those "Kulaks" again, tanky?

>>719808917
"America First" means loving your country, your country, its children, heterosexuality, traditional values, making a good fun game without any personal politics, just something fun and enjoyable will cool looking characters, cute/sexy women, and making something without some woke mandate. You didn't check any of those checkboxes so now you anti-American bastards will pay and suffer. You went to war with us gamers in 2014 knowing that we could just drop your asses on a dime, and you lost. Enjoy unemployment, rat.

>>719810010
Good. Shouldn't have sold their soul to corporations or became reliant on 20 Mexicans working for $3 an hour.
>>719810329
I don't care

>>719805452 (OP)
The layoffs were already a good think, now it's fucking spetacular.

>>719810137
The numbers make sense. Anyone who's worked on a volunteer project knows this, "writers" and "designers" a dime a dozen and are essentially idea guys with a title, while the actual programmers are a scarce resource, and artists are gods among men (in AAA they can just outsource that so it doesn't count)

>>719810010
And just look at the way these people are dressed. They're not poor or actually in danger, they just want more gibs.

>>719810137
>try to push narrative that writing and design for games are more important than programming and concept art
>it fails and proves that games were never about its story, it was always the gameplay
lmao, this is why AAA should have never existed

>>719805452 (OP)
It's multiple factors converging. First the pandemic hiring spree was unprecedented. Anyone with "some college" on their resume was able to get a $50k entry level job in tech. Now that the boom is over and the growth just wasn't sustainable the industry is shrinking back down to normal. But we're actually shrinking even more because AI isn't just killing those positions but it's killing other positions, especially in data entry and some forms of asset creation, as well. As soon as generative AI really kicks off many asset farms, especially in india, are going to go away forever. Right now a AAA studio needs like 5 meetings and 2 weeks to change some assets. With generative AI that's going to happen in an afternoon.

>>719806119
I want to be the executor in minecraft.

>>719805452 (OP)
>50% of the video games layoffs in the past few years are in california
good times, for a change

And just like last time, the videogame crash only affects hell on earth.

>>719805452 (OP)
>replacing americans with indians is good now
really, /v/?

>>719813049
Anon demonstrates he doesn't know the difference between outsourcing and offshoring. Western vidya studios have been using companies in India, China, and Vietnam as turnkey solutions for gamedev assets since the late 2000s.

>>719811662
They look like normal working man clothes. What are you talking about?

>>719811662
>Costco polos and jeans
>Rich

>>719813236
Yes, they are "only" millionaires rather than billionaires, what's your point?

>>719807562
We know. I keep hoping the President just sends in the national guard to string your governor from a lamp post.

>>719813049
Absolutely. The fags getting replaced agree, even.

>>719808917
California doesn't want to be America. Suck shit Democunts.

>>719809901
Didn't Trump fire both of the H1B supporters and make it almost impossible for jeets to get permanent citizenship? It's the reason Modi keeps trying to kiss Putin's ass.

>>719809204
Jews can't let us have anything good.

>>719810010
They're factory farmers crying that they can't import slave labor and lodge them in sleepy little white towns to terrorize the natives. Glad they're mad.

>>719807562
i wont go there and i wish you fags would stop infesting other states

>>719805452 (OP)
>Gaming is actually healing
Hopefully this means actual good games and less chink porn foot spam.

>>719812180
>AAA
>Good story
It's always the blandest woke shit

>>719808917
Your goal has been achieved, don't be racist. It's your fault you're not accepting lower wages.

>>719807562
>do not come here
Please stay there, that's the actual issue.

>>719810893
Nice projection but those are the people putting real farmers out of business by mass importing illegal spic labor.

>>719808973
based

>>719811068
Based

>>719813907
>putting real farmers out of business
Farmers don't have a business beyond federal subsidies, which are being cut, and exports, which are crashing because of China's retaliatory tariffs.
Wetbacks were only a symptom of the actual problem

>>719806210
Time are changing
Of we keep pushing for 10 more years we might end up back to the early 2010s
Trump better reverse the homo marriage law

>>719811068
*countrymen

>>719813907
This. Only pureblooded aryans should be destroying their bodies in the fields. The niggers and spics are better off being put in their place in skilled labor and high-tech industries.

>>719805452 (OP)
>Be the most expensive place in the whole world to live
>Most of your employees are unionizing because they can't afford a roof over their heads and food in their mouths
>Somehow people suddenly act surprised when these people get fired because the companies don't want to afford them
>Specially when the products they're making aren't selling well and lose money
It's always so utterly amazing to see the average leftist comentator be completely bamboozled by basic logic and pattern recognition.

>>719810893
Every professional farmer I have ever known has an ag science degree, multiple pieces of farm equipment that cost tens of thousands of dollars, and dozens of acres of prime real estate.

>>719814280
Not so skilled if you're getting slaughtered out there by barely sentient pajeets, are you.

>>719807176
This doesn't answer the question. I guess he's a glorified HR/PR guy and also >>719810343

>>719807562
Great beaches and great weather. Shame about the locals.

>>719813725
Actually they're mad that China does not want American farm products anymore, that was a big market

>>719814502
Native Californians are fine. The worst people are the ones chased out of their flyover towns that go there because they treat it like some sort of progressive utopia

>>719813176
yes, and now they're doing it more and more often
do you think those lost american jobs just disappeared?

>>719814797
The jobs are better off in India.
Americans are only fit for slave labor. An entire country of dalits, through and through.

>>719814797
Anon, the jobs aren't 'lost' because they never existed in the US to begin with. If companies couldn't hire cheap outsourcing studios, they'd scale back development or increase their dev period. They wouldn't hire fifty or more people to work for eight to ten months.

>>719809204
And it's still leagues better than the flyover sister-fucking shitholes

>>719813378
>$15 shirt and $30 jeans is rich
Are you from India?

>>719805452 (OP)
>"Why is the AAA Gaming Industry failing so hard?"

Because the entire Western AAA Gaming scene just got kicked in the jaw by a $20 game made by fucking Australians.

amerigolems BTFO'd

>>719805452 (OP)
>Americans and Californians are the most talented video game developers on the planet.
When has that statement ever been true?

>>719814342
>AG science degree
And my barista at starbucks has a gender studies degree.
>multiple pieces of farm equipment that cost tens of thousands of dollars
Most of which were either financed (meaning they don't own it) or inherited.
>dozens of acres of prime real estate.
Which they need to make the money and food

Next you'll claim any person with a small business, because they need to have a space and some equipment is "rich". Tankies are really fucking delusional

>>719805452 (OP)
based, as an American I will say, fuck california

>>719815942
Probably in the 90s, but the most talented American devs in the 90s were in Texas, Washington, and Massachusetts.

>Jail time for employers who knowingly hire illegals
>40% payroll tax on H-1B hires, 80% on overseas/intl. outsource hires.
Problem solved

>>719816542
Cool it with the antisemitism.

>>719816386
Amin

>>719807562
>>719813415
>>719813515
>>719814502
>>719814675

If it pisses Trump and fags like you off, it's gods choosen paradise. Plus porn and anime expo.

>>719817210
I've never met a person from California that had good things to say about their home state.

>>719817210
>t.ranny

>>719817210
Take a shower.

>>719817303
The most accurate description of it is that 'guy eating shit who gets mad when you point out he's eating shit' meme. I look at Cali with the same amount of disgust. And sadness, at how good it used to be before the 2000s.

>>719817303
California is the nexus of culture and the one state in the USA where you can make any impact on the world. If you care about commenting on or changing culture in any realistic manner, this is the only place where you can do it. It's the only place in America that matters which is why people talk about it constantly.

>>719818346
Oh hey, Canada's got one o' those too
Its called Toronto.
The people there think the suns shines out of their ass but everyone else hates them and thinks they're tools.
Apparently Californians have an even bigger fart sniffing epidemic than Toronto. Who'd a thunk

>>719818346
>nexus of culture and the one state in the USA where you can make any impact on the world. If you care about commenting on or changing culture in any realistic manner,
Oh wow, how could I forget. Everyone is just obsessed with the latest trend of upper-middleclass jews and faggots.
>why people talk about it constantly
No we don't

>>719808917
Making women models look like the hambeasts you are in the workplace is not what the customer wants. Since you couldn't figure that out + game sells poorly due to laziness skill issue

>>719818924
>the latest trend of upper-middleclass jews and faggots
Yes, the people who produce the most consumed, valuable art in the world, movies. If you partake in cultural discussion at all you literally cannot go one day without discussing the impact of something that was made in California, by Californians.
>No we don't
You are literally in a thread whining about California this very second.

>>719818346
>If you care about commenting on or changing culture in any realistic manner, this is the only place where you can do it
Why is it always about social engineering with you fuck?
Also it doesn't work the way you think it does, importing migrants en masse is far more effective if you want to change a culture, all you're doing is spreading dissent and infighting to keep people too busy to do anything.

How come the single most woke devs and companies that borderline share communist views are the same companies that treat their employees that worst?
Shouldn't it be the other way around?

>>719819194
You think culture is purely social engineering?

great news indeed, a toast is needed

>>719818346
>impact on the world
>changing culture
and they certainly did just that kek. thank you and keep up the good work :)

>>719819386
>commenting on or changing culture
From California?
Yes.

>>719805452 (OP)
Didn't sony move to california? lol.

>>719819517
>california bad because um.... california bad!
I will accept your concession.

>>719819301
Those people were always projecting.
And we know that these people would rather go bankrupt than admit their own faults.

>>719819301
They don't hold communist views.
They say they do to dupe retards into blindly supporting corporation, then do whatever they want because they fooled the main group that complained about their shitty practices. Communists are literal retards who only value what someone says, not their actions. So they can't tell that their support is just being farmed.
This has been the case since 2011, OWS was the biggest psyop and turning point for western corporate hegemony.
In this very thread, there are commies who fell for the "farmers are actually the elite" psyop thats been set up so the corps can take the land and control the food supply while the commies celebrate it.

>>719808973
i sure could use a vacation

>>719819623
Why do commies hate the working class so much? Like how the fuck can you think farmers are the kind of people sitting and hoarding money?
Like how retarded do you have to be?

>>719805452 (OP)
GREAT NEWS

>>719818346
Your nexus of culture, sir:
>create massive bubbles of VC funding that inevitably dry up in order to ruin society
>torpedo all creative ventures for no reason
>nearly ruin the film industry so badly that Tom Cruise had to come out of retirement to make sure theatrical releases didn't die
>draincircle every creative industry to the bare minimum MBA slop necessary to appeal to the lowest common denominator
I was born there. You faggots ruined it.

>>719819756
Most commies are champagne socialists. They don't come from the working class themselves.
They tend to delude themselves into believing that the working class will support everything they do, woke ideology, immigration, atheism etc, if only they weren't so deluded by capitalism/the cia/whatever boogeyman. But in the mean time before "the revolution" they hate the working class for getting in the way of their bullshit.

Also most commies don't think independently. They are part of social circles that repeat what the important people in the circle say without criticism or thought. Its very slogan and talking point based.
To be fair, you get the same empty headed shit from people still clinging to MAGA. Most people don't put a lot of critical thought into their beliefs.

>>719816386
Californians don't have souls. They can't go to hell.

>>719814675
>The worst people are the ones chased out of their flyover towns that go there because they treat it like some sort of progressive utopia
that's literally been your entire population for decades.

>>719819756
Commmies and Californians are retarded but they're probably not (or maybe they include them too idk really) talking about tenant farmers basically at the mercy of Tysons jewry or another round of cullings or something.
The independent farmers left really are just hoarding shit + receiving gibs for doing so. Niggers deserve to be cut off and fed shit

>>719805452 (OP)
Reality always catches up, trannycommies.
Thank god they are so stupid they will double down and go broke even harder lmao.

>>719805452 (OP)
>California AAA is like the epicenter of the difficulty
weak men create difficult times, simple as

>>719819756
bro, they think if society suddenly collapses they'll be curating ice cream socials and teaching kids to read all day instead of scrounging for food.

>>719819756
Commies are either fat or malnourished faggots (Typically trannies too). They never worked a day in their life, and see themselves as superior to people who do.

>>719821148
It's funny that you're still just describing the ways that California impacts culture, which is the entire point i'm making. I'm not saying everything created here is good, that would be silly, i'm saying this is where you go if you want to change culture, and that will always be true. Unless you wanna try and convince me of the thriving cinema industry in fuckin' Alabama.

>>719819756
The first thing you have to always keep in mind is that communism is inherently a rich-person ideology.
Marx was a son of a well-to-do lawyer; Engels hunted foxes on the weekends.
Their own class theory is contradictory refuted by the inventors of communism itself.

It is - inherently - a clownworld ideology.

>>719822012
>weak men create difficult times
But anon, you are the weak man.

>>719822228
>shit on everything
>look at my impact on the world!

>>719821641
I don't like the coastal people, but the Californians that live further inland towards Nevada, Idaho and Northern Arizona are alright. Honestly if California was split in half down the center their bullshit probably wouldn't be as annoying for the rest of the country.

>>719822228
>California's legacy is pushing jewish faggotry until everyone hates faggots and jews

>>719822249
But which is the working class ideology? Most political parties USED to be pro-workers and fought like crazy to win over the workers.
But I can't remember the last time I've seen anyone try to win over the workers now.

>>719822386
>>719822439
How does that not impact culture? Are you stupid or something? No wonder you left to live in some trog shithole.

Our state isn't making owning ((("""obscene games"""))) illegal so stay mad obese republitards

>>719822274
>not muttmerican
I didn't do shit to burn down your crumbling empire nigga, but I wish I did lmao

>>719822534
California is unironically the last bastion of free expression in America and it's entirely because of the degenerate jews.

>>719811068
>loving your country
be serious, you hate your country and love a man who routinely violates the constitution and the laws which you larp about upholding
>your countrymen
you vote for a party that rapes your countrymen at every turn but because niggers and trannies are included in collateral damage you dont care
>heterosexuality
being obsessed with troons is not heterosexual behavior
>traditional values
voted for a non-christian rapist pedophile jew-owned zionist who engages in miscegenation
>good fun game without any politics
you're a rightoid, all the games you love were made by libs and leftists for your entire life, you're just too fat and retarded (california is one of the very few states with obesity rates under 25% btw, get on a treadmill you fat fuck) to read beyond what is presented to you aesthetically because the people you vote for continually rape your education system and it produces enclaves of barely-human societal leeches called 'red states' that democucks have to subsidize ad infinitum because letting you die would just be too mean
>you lost
trannies niggers and wokies now totally own your favorite hobby and you're too scared of college to get an education to ever do anything about it so you will whine on 4chan for the rest of your life thinking that some blue haired retard losing their job is your own personal victory. it might be amusing if it weren't so pathetic

>>719822575
I guarantee whatever country you're living in is also a crumbling empire.

>>719822531
>left
I've never stepped foot in your shitskin state

>>719822652
Your feckless wailing falls upon deaf ears, because everyone is sick of your gaslighting, any point you're trying to make is under six layers white lies and half truths, which is why it's all a moot point.

>>719822670
whole west is going to shit, you're not wrong there

>>719809764
IMAGINE BEING FROM FUCKING ARKANSAS LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

>>719805452 (OP)
Those chuds should learn to weld

>>719805452 (OP)
Where do you think everyone is making games? Bumfuck Alabama?

>>719809764
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2025/07/11/arkansas-taxpayers-are-loaning-israel-millions-of-dollars-as-its-war-in-gaza-grinds-on
grim

>>719822879
>no argument
i accept your concession you obese uneducated rightoid retard. you might actually go deaf one day with that dogshit health and lack of healthcare assuming you even make it to old age kek

Both the tech and film industry in California is dying too. Good riddance, LA and SF are fucking cesspits and have almost single handedly ruined modern culture, glad to see those cocksuckers suffer.

>>719822652
>trannies niggers and wokies destroyed an industry and handed its future over to China
Ignoring the rest of the troonslop in your post, is this really something to be proud of?

you guys keep blamining California while also being funded by California.

>>719818346
I find it funny that one of guys the right sucked off back in the day, Tucker Carlson being a literal Californian but people forget about that. Same with New York producing Trump for MAGA out there.

>>719823101
I have better healthcare than you, and I don't rent. Enjoy your life poorfag.

>>719822652
>be serious, you hate your country and love a man who routinely violates the constitution and the laws which you larp about upholding
I love my nation
>you vote for a party that rapes your countrymen at every turn but because niggers and trannies are included in collateral damage you dont care
I didn't vote for Biden
>being obsessed with troons is not heterosexual behavior
You destroyed my hobbies and made them political
>voted for a non-christian rapist pedophile jew-owned zionist who engages in miscegenation
I voted for common sense and traditional values
>you're a rightoid
I'm a man who just want fun video games again
>trannies niggers and wokies now totally own your favorite hobby
I simply don't care about them, removing them though will allow me to enjoy my hobbies in peace again

>>719823352
I don't think anyone here is a jewish factory farm owner, anon.

>>719822904
And you don't' need an education to live well here, sounds like a win to me.
>>719823031
>Posts collage of retarded California political antics.
What now gay boy?

>>719823184
much in the same way you believe voting against your own interests is worth it to own the libs and deport spics, yes absolutely

is it one guy making all these [* news] threads or has it just become a meme?

>>719823456
There has not been a Republican president that was long term good for the economy in either of our lifetimes, unless you are old enough to have been born when Eisenhower was president.

>>719822228
NTA but imagine thinking people still consume the slop California produces internationally. We can see what comes out of there but no one is buying it or watching lol unless you mean shifting peoples choices away is a cultural impact

>>719823501
aight lil bro
https://governor.arkansas.gov/news_post/readout-of-sanders-meeting-with-prime-minister-netanyahu/

>>719823501
>being the fattest most disgusting fucks in a country of 350 million is "living well"
the american mind

>>719823513
OP here, I made a normal thread but nobody posted in it so I decided to copy that format and make it a little more baity.

>>719823545
We haven't had a president in general that cared about America more than Israel in our lifetimes either.

>>719823456
Continuously supporting Israel is a traditional value of America, I can agree with that.

>>719823507
Is everything about the orange man with you trannies?

>lazy entitled incompetent programmers are being replaced by poojeets
GOOD

>incompetent poojeets are being replaced by AI
GOOD

>california libtards are losing their jobs
EXTREMELY GOOD

thank you for the good news. the video game industry is finally healing.

>>719822941
>learn melding
>clanker blocks you're path
maybe they should just skip to rope instead

>>719822531
>How does that not impact culture?
uhh, how does shitting over everything in the medium for decades amount to no impact?

>>719823456
>traditional values
well to be fair i can see how being owned by jews and raping children is a traditional value for a republican so you win this time

>>719822904
>My state is higher than New York Kikes, New English cucks, and Californian trannies

>>719823793
is everything about the trannies with you rightoids?

>>719823631
Hey isn't Beverly Hills and some other place supposed to start hanging Israeli flags in the schools or something?
>>719823632
>Being able to afford food is bad
Lol

>>719824113
When I'm talking to (you) then I have to. (You) could make it less obvious next time.

>>719824120
Once again the Americans don’t know what a fucking micronutrient is.

>>719805452 (OP)
Why do so many of y'all hate Californians specifically? Like what did they ever do to you?

>>719824043
which state?

>>719824120
>Being able to afford food is bad
this has only ever been said by a fatass.

>>719824120
>i just HAVE to spend money on so many calories that i become an obesity statistic

>>719824245
Birthplace of the confederacy

>>719810137
I don't understand why anyone would want to work in the video game industry in the first place. If you want to actually design a game then make your own indie project, there's practically never been a better or easier time to do it than now. If not then any relevant skill you'd have would still get you a better job in a different industry.

>>719824212
>see what you think is a tranny
>MUST ENGAGE MUST ENGAGE MUST ENGAGE
at least you can admit to your obsession

>>719824220
They ruined American media with their retardation.
I want them gone.
But I'm not just referring to Californians, I'm referring to 90% of all west coasters.

>>719824120
You probably get your funding cut if you don't. Wonder why that is though

>>719822904
I live in one of the top 10 and everyone here is still retarded myself included, so this means fuck all.

>>719805452 (OP)
This is unironically some of the best news I've heard in a while.

>>719824401
you might want to learn to read honestly.

>>719824220
Indians ask the same question. Think about that.

>>719824219
>Foreigner who hates America but not California
When will you euro-sissies learn that your opinion on literally anything is beyond worthless?
>>719824270
>>719824327
Cope and Seethe. 5000 calories a day has made me powerful, I could fucking rape you sickly freak homos and there would be nothing you could do about it.

>>719824401
>democrat state
top fucking kek.

>>719824220
Some Californians are chill, but you have the socialist trannies, like ITT, that are unlikeable and impossible to talk to. Their politicans are some of the most corrupt in the country, and flooded their state with spics so they can get more votes to spread their gay jew agenda.

>>719824760
California is the inverse of Texas

>>719824703
>obese nigger worships an army he couldn't even walk to the recruitment center for
burger king's strongest soldier

>>719824728
Around DC it is, the votes were 49% to 51% last election. Though, for some reason our governor election is between a jewess and a sheboon. The uniparty is real here.
>>719824584
It's #4 only a few New English states were above it, and California wasn't even in the top 10

>>719805452 (OP)
The software engineers are collected in California morons.
Basic statistics.

>>719805934
>That used to be true
that was never true lmao

>>719824703
This artist.. is retarded. Oh no

Post YFW
>>>>>>>most talented

>>719815406
>passing up free pussy for some arbitrary reason
I have 3 sisters and almost had sex with one of them when we were younger but I was too scared of anyone finding out. I don't live in a fly over state either

>>719824703
>i'm so powerful i could have gay sex with you homos!
you good bro?

>>719805452 (OP)
You should never celebrate the misery of others, Jesus himself wouldn't want that

>>719813215
>>719813236
Literally everyone wears these. Why do you think you can judge someone's wealth by their clothes?

>>719819301

Think Wozniak vs Steve Jobs.
The people who founded the companies are not leftist.

The companies promote those views to attract Software engineers who have a libertarian or leftist mentality.

>>719824703
have you tried not eating a twinkie every day?

Jeremiah 22:3
This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

>>719825489
He eats twinks not twinkies.

Before I read the thread im gonna assume /vpol/ is like "wtf i love publishers laying off devs now" am I right

>>719825553
that explains why his posts are so gay.

>>719825623
kek

>>719825409
Don't larp as a Christian, heathen.

How many good games did the layed off devs make

>>719825562
This thread is full of people who actually understand so little about the industry, I'm realizing I shouldn't be reading /v/.
If it was as simple as devs "being woke" we'd be seeing games coming out of Kansas.

>>719825562
Its a good thing that western devs are getting laid off. The western gaming industry fucking sucks

>>719825562
Crazy how those people contradict each other, first they don't like AAA developers from North America and then suddenly they don't like AAA developers from North America.
You owned them with facts and logic once again.

>>719825716
Welcome to /v/

>>719811662
Dude what the fuck are you talking about? Those are normal-ass clothes. Do you think farmers universally wear bumpkin overalls and a straw hat?
Also despite people CLAIMING that America is shit, even the actual poorest citizens of the nation can afford random shit from Ross or Costco. Nothing in that picture looks gucci loafers.

>>719805452 (OP)
nortubel is not from california

>>719825703
Mercy, compassion and forgiveness are the Christian way my dude

>>719825528
The Lord is putting the majority of the world into hell where they will be eternally tortured, and the righteous will be overjoyed by that. Put that in your out of context quote machine.

Inxile is the only AAA studio in Cali that's worth saving. They've somehow avoided being pozzed up by Microsoft so far.

>>719825716
>we'd be seeing games coming out of Kansas.
>republican states
>creating anything of worth

>>719825773
This is supposed to make /v/ look bad?

>>719825528
>>719825867
Amen.

>>719823564
People like that will never understand, anon. He thinks that California genuinely has the same cultural power and reach it did in the 80-00 period, which is crazy to me when CA has been businessmaxxing ever since the dotcom era.
Total progressive cope that the state has been relevant culturally in years. You killed ska, you killed punk, you killed rock. You killed every genre of film that isn't focus-tested to death, to the point that FUCKING A24 produces more auteur-tier projects than half of Hollywood. You killed mobile so brutally that the only way to get out of the sinkhole was with 15 years of technological progress, allowing the Chinese to make full-fledged RPGs on mobile hardware. You killed Silicon Valley, which was called that because it was one of the premier producers of silicon chips in the world. You started the deathknell of video games with moving everything into California and then aggressively increasing the budget and standards until it was fundamentally impossible for games to succeed with the returns they're required to make.
God I can't wait for GTA6 to bomb.

>>719825773
lmao this picture is so fucking bullshit. I've been waiting for somebody to post this for a while
/a/ are fucking frauds because they also sent their dick pics to the Kokoro Connect cast after crying about the bullying prank case with the voice actors cast. The thing is that they sent their dick pics to the wrong person. I never want to see someone draw this comparison between /a/ and /v/ again

>haha californians are getting fired heckin BASED muh retarded contemporary left-right politics!!!!
Of course none of you are smart enough to consider where their replacements are coming from.

>>719805452 (OP)
The future of American video games looks quite bleak indeed.
All that talent will be snatched up by foreigners who will then drive the Americans out of the market.

>>719825979
Read through this and agreed up until you thinking GTA6 is legitimately going to bomb. It's just plain not going to fail and people who do are going to look like the guys who think Silksong was going to crash and burn. You have no idea how big that is in the normalfag sphere. Other games with as bloated developement times/budgets sure, but GTA? LOL

>>719826014
>Fags get replaced by jeets
That's just life in California. Why should I care?

>>719825562
When did we ever say we don't want Californian devs getting laid off?
This is literally exactly what I want, and I'm not even some flyover Republican, hell, I live in probably the only state that's more left-wing than California.

>>719819127
Laughing at the misfortunes of people isn't whining you insufferable retard lmao

>>719826026
As long as they bring back hot girls in games I'm all for it.
Who cares if they're gooks, moots, pahjoots, or canooks.

>>719825892
>Phil Spencer is there
On no...

>>719826014
And just like I didn't buy the stuff made by the Californians, I will continue to not buy that same stuff when it's made by Indians.
Not my problem.

>>719826014
>>719826026
>lose your favorite hobby to trannies
>lose it again to jeets
so this is the power of the right wing gamer............

>>719825730
>>719825772
>I am butthurt about God of war or that snoy game with the redhead so every developer must die
ah, I love speaking with the retarded

>>719805452 (OP)
>Why are top publishers like Xbox cutting and firing the most talented developers in the world?

Many Silicon Valley companies used to hire the best talent just for the purpose of keeping them away from other companies, having them sit around doing minor shit, causing stagnation.

Too much money is thrown around there.

>>719826268
>I don't like any of the games you make, so I don't care if you lose your job
It's that simple.

>>719815406
keep telling yourself that califag

>>719826026
>The future of American video games looks quite bleak indeed.

No it isn't, breaking apart the old guard will be good for American game developers.
More AA studios and creativity is the best thing that could happen.

>>719826168
The devs in California, are often NOT Californians, because they poach people from everywhere.
This isn't 1860.

>>719826256
>Trannies make games
>flops
>jeets make games
>flops
So this is the power of jewish business

>>719815406
Try living somewhere that isn't crowded and the air is breathable.

>>719826338
every single developer made a game you didn't like?

>>719826426
>The devs in California, are often NOT Californians
If you're an American living in California, you're a Californian.
We don't want you back, either, stay there and be homeless.

>>719826124
I'm aware. However, the budget for GTA6 is 2B USD and its a PS5/Xbox limited initial release. Double budget for marketing, so assume 3.5~4B USD total costs for the game.
There are 80M PS5 users, and this is the only relevant marker because Xbox is cooked. At 70 dollars a copy, they need to sell 28 MILLION copies to break even on a 2B budget, so functionally a 30% attach rate.
My argument isn't "GTA6 will bomb and sell nothing", but that GTA6 is fundamentally incapable of making ROI because AAA is cartoonishly bloated.
>everything after this part is personal opinion and has little basis in reality
I could go deeper, but a lot of it is based on pretty heavy market analytics (the industry has stopped growing, most analysts think the amount of people currently playing games is the cap), in addition to arguments about how modern normalfag audiences are becoming rapidly more and more enthusiast; compare the skillfloor to play Fortnite's build mode to MW1, or compare BG3's RPG systems and mechanics to Skyrim. Players expectations are very very high these days, and I have absolutely 0 faith that ANY AAA company can hit them.

>>719824454
Not that guy but laughing at you and calling you stupid when you do something laughably stupid like posting drivel is not obsession.

>>719826268
I don't think I've bought (or spent money on) a game from california in more than a decade. reap what you sow and whatnot.

>>719826503
In California? Yes, at least over the last decade or more.

>>719826503
I haven't paid for a AAA game in years, so for the ones getting hit by layoffs in California, probably.
In fact, I don't think I've bought an indie American game in years either.

>>719826462
>still make infinity gorillion dollars more than you do
owned by jews lmao

>>719826525
I assume the majority of the bank is going to come from milking the everloving fuck out of the audience with shark cards in GTA Online

>>719806393
>One of the only states where anime, porn, loli, and you can still boycott Israeli
Useful idiot or freedom hater

>tourists hear about this and think "HECKIN BASED OMG I LOVE OUTSOURCING NOW"
>tourists are told this makes everything even worse
>tourists are happier because they actually want videogames and everything else to die out because they're stupid enough to think this will make people join their culture war or start a violent revolution or some faggot shit

>>719826525
>Double budget for marketing
you have no concept of the numbers you're talking about. 2B on a marketing campaign could have someone knock on every door in the world.

>>719805452 (OP)
I think the problem is less with the average dev and more with the people in HR type roles and project management who give out dictates that sabotage the games, assuming that stuff doesn't come straight from the top of the production company.

>>719826638
The jews do, but you trannies are the ones losing to jeets

>>719826680
>>tourists are told this makes everything even worse
Good, I want the industry to collapse.
I already don't buy any of the garbage that comes out of California, if it gets worse for the retards who do I fail to see how that's not a net benefit.

>>719826680
>taking shitposts seriously

>>719825409
lmao, now Jesus argument doesn't stink.

>Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ Matthew 7:22-23

>>719826573
you entered this very thread because you're obsessed with culture war shit, keep coping

>>719826669
MIGA on 4chan just switch up from posting anime figurines next to MIGA hats years ago to becoming puritymaxxers to stay logically consistent. Or at least I'd hope so

>>719826680

How do you think Hitler got started? The German culture war gave birth to Hitler

>>719826862
Once again, laughing at morons and discussing things on the discussion board is not being obsessed. You should expand your vocabulary, you weird fruity fuck.

>>719826786
and you lost to all three of them
bleak!

>>719826680
They are gonna outsource no matter what either way to save costs. Also there's no point doing software development in califonia, the highest living costs in the world. Game development should be in some shithole state which means you can spend way less and they'll still do the same jobs since it's all software.

>>719826862
>shitpost in a /v/ thread
>WHY ARE YOU CHUDS OBSESSED WITH ME
The troon mind is an enigma

>>719826965
>enters thread because it concerns trannies
obsessed
>starts thinking about gay men
obsessed

>>719827002
I didnt lose my job because no one wanted to play gay slop tho?

>>719827073
>HAD to reply to someone who wasn't even talking to him
obsessed
the troon mind owns your hobby nigger, die mad

>>719827109
>concerns trannies
Did you see 50% and get confused lmao

>>719826669
>Mississippi
>Loli is legal
You'd never have guessed

>>719827239
californian game devs are 100% tranny thoughbeit

>ctrl f "jew"
>18 results
Obsessed

>>719827315
Tranny expert I bow to your superior knowledge.

>>719827225
Clearly not, did you not read the headline?

>>719826751
I worked in marketing at an F500. You have no idea how much we scam the fuck out of everyone. Marketing is considered a 'success' when you ONLY lose 50 cents on every dollar you spend. This is just how you calculate entertainment budgets in general, especially with mega releases.
GTA6 will certainly have:
>tv ads
>influencer payoffs
>billboards
>magazine ads
>tie-ins with hundreds of realworld brands
Also: companies are retards and don't know how to spend well for marketing. Disney ripped 100M on putting fucking stickers on fruit for TLJ. Meanwhile, Lil Nas X kickstarted his entire career by faking grassroots support of his music on Reddit and Twitter.

>>719827390
i must disseminate such knowledge to my most ardent followers

>>719805452 (OP)
It's not effective. The purple hair gender homonculus fail upwards or just jump on to infect another franchise.

>>719809764
lmao based

>>719827358
You'll see like 4/5x that in any ue5 thread, that's a pretty low number.

>>719827239
Kek

>>719827485
I think your followers have been de-semen-ated already if you know what I mean

>>719827415
rightoids would also start losing jobs in the sector if they could ever even possess the education required to work in it in the first place but i guess we'll never know

>>719827358
>enter a thread just to see if its nose tribe was mentioned because it knows it was ultimately responsible
lmao

>>719827613
KEKY educated white bois have already been replaced by Indians

>>719827613
Why would a right winger want to work for a gay Californian game studio?

>>719827430
I understand that it's a world full of scammers scamming scammers but the
>double for marketing
is nonsense. it's not even usually true about 150-300m movies. It's certainly not going to be the case for a 2B project.

>>719827613
>xir thinks programmers are leftsharts
rofl

>>719807562
Correct
Caliwali lost 230k people in 2023, most lost of all states

basically all industries except teaching and nursing btw.

>>719827563
your mind is a treasure my friend

>>719807562
But Gavin Newsom is going to be the next president, so California can't be that bad.

>>719827782
Even if you remove that, 2B still requires a 30% attach rate to break even. I don't believe GTA6 is capable of hitting a 30% attach rate when every AAA game for the last 4+ years has crashed and burned under the exact conditions that Rockstar invented, and all the leaks prove that those conditions are fundamentally unchanged.
None of my math involved the doubled marketing budget, for the record. 28m is a flat 2B budget. I'm more then willing to concede on marketing, but the attach rate is even before that. This will be the most expensive video game ever made.

>>719814342
and why wouldn't they? you think they should have 5th grade education and still plow the fields with oxen?

>>719827752
to make good games

>>719828179
what good game has come out of an AAA californian studio in the last 5 years?

The only thing better than hearing about Californians losing their job is reading the lefty seethe in this topic.
You started a culture war, the other side had no idea it was going on, and YOU LOST it. Lmao.

>>719828179
Name one good game made in California released within the last 5 years.

>>719813880
The people leaving Californian are chuddier than the average population. Blue state expats also end up being the cultural leaders of the right such as Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan

>>719828231
none, that's why right wingers should save the industry and make gaming great again

>>719826210
And running around with a fag flag. Amazing.

>>719828179
Huh?
AAA Californian devs haven't produced a good game in like a decade.

>>719826680
>reee you are not allowed to clean up those bloated companies that hired based on race and gender based discrimination against you
Kill yourself. You are evil and incompetent.

>>719828335
Maybe when the current AAA industry crashes. GTA6 will be the last successful AAA game

>>719805452 (OP)
Cuckafornia is a cancer. Democrats and Leftards are a cancer. The San Andreas fault should earthquake the entire state into the ocean.

>>719828124
It definitely costs way too much and has a large chance to fail but they're also not banking on physical sales to recoup the costs. Try to look into how much GTAV made in sales vs retards spending money for in-game currency in the online mode. I know it made a shit ton more digitally than it did physically.
For the record I hope it bombs.

>>719828480
why do they have to wait for the industry to crash, just start making good games. they could even do it outside of california and ignore the commie trannies entirely

>>719828335
AAA industry has to die first for that to happen.

my studio (~200 people) is like 50% remote but HQ'd in los angeles and the reason we'll probably shut down is because most of the people here are fucking awful at making games
currently trying to find another position before the axe comes

>>719828631
see >>719828616
whats stopping them from making their own studio in a non-cucked red state

Why wouldn't you want them as your employees?

>>719828616
You can make small scale indies on your own, sure. People who are interested in doing so are already doing it. Making a large budget game would require investors.

>>719828587
>GTAO 10B since launch, the exact same as GTA5
Jesus Christ. I guess then the question becomes if investors accept the temporary failure for the longterm success, or if the game ends up like Wilds: massive initial success, zero legs that craters MTX purchases.

The layoffs still won't stop them from charging you $100 for a video game. Even with AI being so efficient it should cut the costs.

>>719828784
Said it before and will say it again, she's too young to be a Quirk Chungus. She's acting like a woman five to ten years older than her.

>>719828715
They're going to keep not promoting the games of old that we don't want over the games that we do want. once the AAA die, those games in the shadows can finally come to the surface. Once AAA dies, it's never coming back.

>>719828324
>The people leaving Californian are chuddier than the average population
Bull-fucking-horse-shit
You deserve to be struck by lightning for making such outrageously retarded statements, but at least I don't doubt you're actually Californian.

>>719828984
Anon if you look at voting patterns you can actually see that this is true.

>>719828917
Good. I hope they charge $100 for AAAslop.

>>719828917
It won't stop me from not buying them, either. You're a child with no understanding how pricing things works.

>>719816542
Maine already taxes %40 of your paycheck even if white.

>>719822453
>But which is the working class ideology?
There isn't one, retard. There is no ideological monolith consisting of "everyone who works a normal job", that pool of people is one of the greatest examples of ideological diversity. That's why communism is fucking retarded.

>>719828917
>$100 video games
Please do, ACCELERATE

>>719807562
I sure am glad Californians are fleeing the crime ridden hellscape they've created and then voting to make their new homes into crime ridden hellscapes.

>>719826789
>>719826790
>>719827008
>>719828459
>durr it's actually good when videogames and anime and music and movies and everything users of a hobby board are interested in are destroyed you should be happy
>NOW JOIN MY CULTURE WAR SLAVE WASTE ALL YOUR WAKING HOURS GETTING MAD AT TWITTER POSTS AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS LIKE THE REST OF US WASTES OF OXYGEN

>>719829504
Remember when Florida was a swing state? Eat shit, we can do it too.

>>719829645
I'm just here to jack off to hot tarts in vidya games.

>>719829645
The studios themselves destroyed the hobby over a decade ago. Some trannies losing their jobs is just a symptom of that.

>>719822904
Now compare that map to the % population of black people in each state.

>>719805452 (OP)
>Why are top publishers like Xbox cutting and firing the most talented developers in the world?
Eh, in Microsoft's case it's a legitimate question, mostly in the cases where they shut down dev teams that had made profitable games and were meeting internal milestones. Nadella's statement on the firings was borderline nonsensical.

>>719829645
If you're interested in shitty Californian AAA games I don't want to share a board with you, go back to /co/ or twatter or whatever other shithole you belong on.

TOTAL CALTROON DEAD HAHAHA

>>719829864
Uppity faggots just shut up when you post the racial distribution map. They don't like admitting their problems with the Bible belt are caused by blacks.

>>719805452 (OP)
That's because Europe doesn't have any jobs to lose. And Asia isn't losing in the first place

>>719810756
>>719811662
Why isn't everyone a farmer then if that's all you need to be to be rich.

>>719829645
Go complain to those who made the pitch of "do what we want and you'll get huge, broad audiences and enormous profits". We said it would end this way right from the start

>>719829952
>if you're interested in videogames get out of /v/ - videogames
>this is a culture war board
Nobody's buying, tourist. Go back.

>>719829645
Maybe they shouldn't have catered to wokies if they didn't want to lose their jobs.

Where did it all go wrong?

>>719830915
The death of Cali turd games can't come fast enough.

Say it with me cali fags
>Put the fries in the bag.
Should a been a game dev and not a political activist shoving your bullshit in to my video games.

>>719805452 (OP)
Christopher Dring is an absolutely terrible interviewer. I'm not even from a media background and I'm better at interviewing people than him. I'm from a Medical Science background. I dont understand how he is so bad at it. He's been in the industry for years. He comes across as extremely awkward and constantly interrupts the person he is interviewing and interjects with pointless anecdotes. Awful.

>>719814609
China starves without American imports, and no, they're mad that they can't import spic workers.

>>719805452 (OP)
Oh no, not california...

>>719831272
Its not about getting the right answers its about getting your answers.

>>719814391
H1Bs get paid significantly less, which makes the stock price go up, so the shareholders create the crest, cash out, and let the company die as their coding goes to shit.

>>719814105
Unironic chink cope. China bent the knee on the tariffs so hard it left a dent.

>>719814280
>Nooo you have to import illegals you just HAVE to!
Nah.

>>719831272
Please understand. The standard for gaming journalism is the Earth's core low.

>>719818346
Then why is the California ideology crashing and burning? Why did your revolution end with country boys kicking antifa's teeth in?

>>719830015
Now do Oklahoma and West Virginia

>>719829210
I know very well how pricing things works in this economy.

And if it's not gonna be you, it will be everyone around you. Now pay the $120 for standard edition, bitch.

>>719823426
Trump getting pissed at what commies did to New York is why he got into politics. Same with Tuck and California. Hell the "change my mind" guy was born in Quebec and hates Canada.

>>719823101
We have jobs and insurance, lol, it's why we're happy to kill Medicare and make your commie ass slave away in the fields.

>>719823456
Based.

>>719824023
Who was it trying to decriminalize pedophilia and hanging out with Epstein (the man Trump reported to the FBI) on his island again? Oh right Democrat leaders.

>>719805452 (OP)
MORE

>>719831587
S-SHUUUUT UPPPPPP

What's all this shit about right wingers being obese? "Healthy at any size" and "Fitness is toxic" are leftist slogans.

>>719822904
>Educated
I'd love to see the kosher way they defined that here because New York and Cali schools are essentially niglet prisons. Is this like that global happiness index thing that gave bonuses to countries with hate speech laws and no guns because "obviously that makes people happy ;)" while ignoring suicide rates or antidepressant usage?

The damage Microsoft caused by entering the video game market cannot be overstated.

Microsoft is sloshing money around with wild abandon because M$ has more money than GOD, which led to scammer-ass devs embezzling funds while development budgets skyrocket

Microsoft funds endless anti-Japan shilling in the bloggersphere. One never saw those kind of anti-japan hit pieces in the 90s--if a game got shat on, the guy at least could list off reasons WHY he was shitting on it besides "JAPAN BAD"

The myth of the Mainstream Audience and we must appeal to the Mainstream Audience happens. Bill Gates' original idea for XBAWKS was a multimedia home device that every family would want in their living room. That didn't happen for old Bill, but mostly because Steve Jobs put an iphone in everyone's pocket which became the snoop in your living room that Bill envisioned.

>>719805452 (OP)
Well yeah, you think hick redstates are going to have anyone working in tech?

>>719816386
>wanting California to back with Mexico

>>719832054
I'd rather be in school on West Virginia than in some ESL hellhole where they have to pass kids that can't read or write for the sake of diversity. I bet you also think reclassifying all attempted murders as felonious assaults actually made the big city violent crime rates go down for real rather than just hiding the problem. Leftists and being brainlets are two things never separated.

>>719832114
statistically, they are more obese... but mostly because they are rural and suburban retards

>>719832321
Hick states are objectively smarter and better to live in thoughbeit.

>>719832402
ESLs unironically speak better English than southerners, probably have less black DNA too KEK

>>719832485
how? driving through the south was very depressing, just dead new growth forests, dollar generals and walmarts, and churches. Awful.

>>719832114
Leftists at least have enough self-awareness to acknowledge they're obese and try to it obesity into a positive thing. They correctly view it as an abnormality but then try to cope by viewing themselves as an oppressed minority with body positivity shit. Rednecks just exist day to day as gigantic ugly pigs and they think it's completely normal.

>>719832748
>Rednecks just exist day to day as gigantic ugly pigs and they think it's completely normal.
rednecks will look at a healthy weight person and say you're too skinny and must be sick... then go back to eating corn syrup canola oil slop uhhh i mean Southern cuisine

>>719823694
ok, thanks for letting me know

>>719832523
Not sure where you're going with this, because your entire cadre has coped its way into saying black slang is its own language and are willfully embracing speaking like an incompetent.

>grrr me hate california
At least I can still look at teenaged anime titties and lolicun without gubmint interference.

Kind of glad these fuckers are getting fired though, western games mostly suck ass anyway and have for a long time. Cull the entire herd, I say.

>>719832114
Leftists always project.

>>719832457
This one for example. After all, imagine voting for Kamala. Either this commie is brown and voting out of tribal loyalty or so stupid that he votes for a party that wants him extinct.

>>719833008
>At least I can still look at teenaged anime titties and lolicun without gubmint interference.
So can I, and I don't have to live in California.

>>719832676
>Just natural paradise and people venerating God!? Where's all the homeless fent addicts and gangbangers!?
Kek

>>719832748
Coping by pretending being obese is good is neither self aware nor healthy, just cope. Rednecks get a gut when they turn 35 but still go do physical labor every day.

>>719833006
>golem thinks it's all Red vs Blue
Deflection noted.

>>719808917
>Americans losing their jobs
Californians*

>>719833079
>tribal loyalty
Glass houses and a bad choice of words. You wouldn't dare criticize your "tribe"

>>719832895
>Healthy weight
Every leftist male is either 500lbs or 90lbs and pretends both are healthy.

>>719833254
Is this the part where you pretend the biggest Democrat donors and most loyal voting bloc aren't kikes and that you being outmaneuvered into choosing between them and your durka base is somehow good for you?

>>719833079
>another golem that thinks it's all Red vs Blue
My ancestors were white aristocrats who killed actual communists in Russia, pipe down peasant.

>>719833208
It's not a natural paradise, as I said it's dead new growth forests that are cut down every 10 years and the hick residents kill anything that moves (except themselves, unfortunately, though they don't move much to be fair).

>>719826669
the hell is with ohio
if anything I figured indiana would be one

>>719833208
Reaching the coping stage is still a step ahead of total obliviousness.

>>719833240
You're not really promoting a third position by glorifying a state that exclusively exports leftist cultural propaganda, so obviously people are going to take you at face value as a super retard.

>>719833350
Proving my point with that deflection. You're just as rabidly tribal as any retarded faggot left winger. You won't meaningfully step out of line with your group. There's no room for such nuance. Just turn brain off, root for the home team, and attack that cardboard cutout

Keep proving it. Get mad at me and do it again.

>>719832523
KEKW TRUTH NUKE

>>719833471
>My ancestors
The ones you betrayed? Shut the fuck up slavnigger.
>Dead new growth forests
Oh I see the idea of removing underbrush is like sorcery to you, those are healthy forests that don't catch fire constantly. Keep seething.

>>719805934
Game devs just need to find a shop they can work at that isn't so ludicrously overpriced as California and Seattle. The latter due to Amazon and others, the former due to a lot of shit.

>>719809204
There's a great allegory plot you can make in fiction to the tale of California and the boomers. It's almost beautifully poetic in some Greek tragedy kind of way: Those of a blessed age abounding in plenty squandering it and ruining it by their avariciousness and then spitefully destroying what remained of it while desperately clinging to the last gasps of their life. And then their heirs not learning the lesson but instead fleeing and seeking to repeat the cycle. Normally the golden age decays to the iron age because of entropy or successive generations being bad, but this is a case where the Greek gods themselves destroy the gold, silver and bronze age and then in the iron age desperately cling to power while the demi-gods run off to Scandinavia or Italia or whatever and just repeat the cycle.

>>719819301
Non-progressives can be mean people too, very mean even, but I've consistently found that the most LGBTQ+ progressive types are incredibly selfish and mean spirited and backbiting.

>>719833557
Our secretary of health can do 100 pushups at age 70. Yours was an obese tranny. Working out keeps being associated with right wing ideologies because only righties lift, statistically.

>>719808917
browns can make good games, it's mostly white women who makes everything gay

>>719833745
Calling everything that btfos you deflection is neither clever nor subtle. How is it a deflection to point out that you're completely wrong? How is it NOT a deflection to call evidence of your own jew-centered ideology deflection? You keep throwing these rehearsed lines about that you heard from some nigger comedian but you have no argument. Don't look up how much Biden sent Israel at the behest of his donors, by the way, Trump at least got his money's worth in dead goatfuckers and missile interception tech. We use Israel to kill hajis, you fund them for free because your owners are all kikes, we are not the same.

>>719834013
He's a heroin addict with a worm in his brain. You might as well have Nick Rekieta as your secretary of health

>>719819301
Well, when you realize that workers in every communist country are essentially slaves rather than actually owning the means of production it makes a lot more sense. Leftism isn't an ideology, it's a scam invented by academics who wanted to rule like nobles and pedophiles (Bouvoir, Sartre, Foucalt, and Jon Money) who thought they would have easier access to victims without a nuclear family to teach kids right from wrong.

>>719834289
We're not talking about Fetterman.

>>719805452 (OP)
>most of the layoffs are in California
California is DEI central and literally the gayest state. This is good news for the future of gaming.

>>719834289
>Based and redpilled on vaxxbloods
>Eats bears
>Casually discards unwanted bears in Central Park so the homeless have something to eat
>Knows the dangers of artificial coloring, parasites, and other evils of the food industry
>Fitness king
>Environmentalist supreme
RFK Jr. was the one good Dem and you lost him lmfao

>>719805452 (OP)
Wow, cool. I hope the layoffs go even harder.

>publishers realize california is the problem
>mass layoffs in california
>everytime we hear news about games getting cancelled and studios being closed is likely all in California

How are people gonna be blackpilled about video games? the future is bright.

>>719805452 (OP)
>Americans and Californians are the most talented video game developers on the planet
Aren’t they all switching to just using Unreal or Unity now because no one knows how to make a fucking engine anymore? The loss of knowledge from generation to generation is legit. Games that should run buttery smooth on modern hardware are stuttering messes. The end is near

>>719805452 (OP)
isn't california like 50% of american vidya jobs in the first place

>>719832114
Classic leftoid projection. Just ignore it best you can.

>>719832114
In the end it doesn't really matter. You're both American, which is basically a synonymous for obese.

>>719835707
Reading comprehension, anon.
They're not saying that 50% of gaming layoffs in America have been in California, they're saying 50% of gaming layoffs GLOBALLY have been in California.

>>719810137
>practically impossible to get a job as a writer
>writing quality in vidya is at all time low

>>719809204
that's when the glowniggers started settling the place

Wait, how am I supposed to think?

>>719826593
>>719826595
you are rude. hope you lose your job next.

>>719836957
Put the fries in the bag, bro.

>>719825562
>b-but think of the unemployed...!
I have and I'm very hard.

>>719810010
Your big attack is that some white farmers want some gibs just like everyone else in order to weather trade war? Calitranny upset the government might spend on people who produce something rather than paying for sex changes.

>>719805452 (OP)
>California activists are homeless now

>>719805452 (OP)
>California

>>719815406
the fingers of a failed male homosexual typed this post

>>719805452 (OP)
Jee it's almost as if California's terrible labor laws and constant lambasting of white men has come back to bite them in the ass or something

>>719837718
lol, lmao even. you know they all fail upwards

>>719819586
And hows their games division doing ever since then lmao

>>719805452 (OP)
FYI for the boomers old enough to remember a life well wasted. There's a new episode out after a billion years, he interviews laid off Devs, seems to include concord Devs too.

You can just make games in you're bedroom now. What even is the point in california anymore?

>>719826525
Do you think GTA6 isn't going to sell 30million+ copies between platforms over its full lifetime?
Do you think it's not going to have millions of retarded normies buying bullshit microtransactions over its entire lifetime?

Yes its retarded that they spent 2billion dollars, but they're still going to double their money over its lifetime
GTA is peak normie core

>>719839442
They don't sell at full price over the course of the game's entire life.

>>719805452 (OP)
I don't understand America. Why would you ever base a business in the most expensive state? You need to pay higher wages and higher rent for what benefit? Of course workers are being fired in the state with highest running costs.

>>719811269
>"writers" and "designers" a dime a dozen and are essentially idea guys with a title
Which is why those are mostly nepo jobs. If anyone can do them, why not the bosses cousin?
>artists are gods among men
Lol no. Game artists specifically have very few job opportunities. The fuck is a texture artist gonna do if game industry treats him like shit? Got nowhere else to go. Applies to pretty much everyone on the art team except for concept artists

>>719839546
Yeah which is why they sell it full price on console, then 2 years later sell it full price on PC, then sell it full price on ps6
They did this exact strategy with 5 and normies are too retarded to care, there will be people buying multiple copies for every system they have, you are underestimating how much cash normies will literally set on fire even when they're financially distressed

>>719826014
>pic
Why would I care what a lolbert thinks desu
You may not care about politics but that just makes you cattle destined to be ruled over
Maybe you'll finally care when your country is 40% white? 20%? 5%? Or maybe you just don't care if you are replaced and forgotten by history, in which case why should I care what a genetic dead end thinks?

>>719805452 (OP)
Finally a good new after my horrible day

>>719826014
>Pic
Nailed it
>>719840852
Konichiwa glowie san!!!

>>719841083
happy for you anon

>>719805452 (OP)
Good. Fuck California

>>719805452 (OP)
Hahahahahahaha fucking deserved, nature is healing

>>719825113
name your top 5 fave games then

>>719826014
Oh, but I know you're dying next, that's the whole point of celebrating.

>>719826014
The reason gaming forums didn't discuss politics wasn't because of some retarded normie vs autistic play pen safe space. It was because gaming was young as a medium and everyone consuming them was a stupid child who only cared about games or cartoons.

These autistic contrarian internet spaces grew up and were instrumental in defeating cancerous ideologies threatening to destroy the things you merely want to discuss in "peace". You cant go back because you cant de-age the gaming audience and what you are actually asking for is something that resembles an autistic tendie or pokemon fansite.

>>719811269
As an artist working in AAA I would hear stories about other disciplines sending in hundreds of applications before landing a job when I would either get the first job I applied to or have so many job offers I had to reject them constantly.

This will probably change with AI but it definitely felt like programmers and high level artists had the largest salary leverage and easiest time finding new work. In the new era of indie they are also the two subgroups who will make the most interesting games.

>>719818346
this state is literal hell and the people running it are just ruining its natural beauty, i hope nothing but pain and misery for them and the people defending this faggotry

>>719808917
Obviously this is a skill issue, the same way trade jobs getting replaced by mexicans who do shit work replace traditionally decent trades.

>>719810137
>writing is the most difficult to get into
>the biggest nosedive in gaming quality for the past 15 years has been writing
Huh

>>719812180
What did you think of Concord's gameplay?

>All games, no, all entertainment will made by small groups of corpos using cheap asians and AI to make bottom of the barrel live service slop
God, i knew the future was going to be gay, but i didn't know it was going to be this lame as well, God can you fags speed up ww3?

>>719831680
He got into politics for his jewish friends.

>>719846153
It means the hardest jobs to get are the ones where the skill level is basically impossible to assess, nobody is going to spend days reading your 600 page novel or fanfic. Those jobs just become nepo hires or endless failing upward of the same handful of mediocre practitioners with big names on their CV.

>>719846157
I don't play multiplayer slop, the hell if I know.

I genuinely hope they end up destitute. I mean that from that soul.

>>719832114
>left wingers are fat
>right wingers are fat
Both are fat and ugly, this is America there are like 10 healthy people per 100 people, overweight/obese is 75% of the population, anorexic skelefags are around 10% and 5% would be healthy if it wasnt for drugs/alcohol abuse/some birth defect.

>>719827168
shut up, chud.

>>719846556
>Jerk offs gameplay
>Doesn't care about games that literally only have gameplay
Huh?

>>719846507
>skill level is basically impossible to assess
Its actually very easy. I can tell what good writing is by reading it and seeing that is appealing, interesting, or funny. Its actually one of the few things almost everyone has some experience in, practically everyone has read a story. Not everyone has written code or worked with game engines.

>>719805452 (OP)
Maybe video games are saved and are back to $60 a pop.

>>719813725
lel. the farmers are the biggest moochers on earth. after the military grunts, of course.

>>719846706
>He actually believes this
Anon, read any history books, things only get worse, you'll get $80 games (still full of mtx btw) poorly prompted by pajeets and you'll enjoy them

>>719846689
Reading is time consuming, in order to fully assess a persons ability you have to read a significant amount of their work, doing this for a single person is a pain in the ass let alone the 5000 applications you're bombarded with. programmers can ask you a few knowledge check questions and read 5 minutes of your code to assess your general abilities, artist can display them in 30 seconds, music takes a few minutes etc..

Writing takes an already talented writer to discern what is good about another candidate and in their absence you're never getting hiring staff who give enough of a shit to find a good writer.

Cuckifornia loses again.

Hi it’s my first time on 4chan since like years what’s new?

>>719846639
I don't play multiplayer slop

>>719848750
>Too unskilled for PvP
Yikes!

>>719848867
singleplayer games are better, multiplayer games use to be good when they were exclusively local.

>>719849405
>He has to makes excuses
Yikerino!

>>719826014
There won't be replacements. Those companies are bloated to hell and back with diversity hires who do not know what they are doing. They are the poster child of spending 10 years and hundreds of millions only to produce a pile of garbage.

>>719805452 (OP)
>over 50% of the cuts globally have been in California
Because Commiefornia imposes a mandatory diversity quota where you cannot operate a business in the state unless your staff is mostly women and/or niggerjeets.

>>719831680
>Becomes a democrat
>>719832114
Americans are fat fucks in general

>>719834169
essential redpill

>>719805452 (OP)
They are not talented at all, they are dull leftist fucks who have to be paid out the ass.

>>719841671
>Konichiwa glowie san!!!
I like how even the merest suggestion that you should care about stuff makes you a government employee trying to lull anons into committing illegal acts
Just go extinct already, the remaining white people will be better off without your cuckold genes holding them back because 'never do stuff or ur a fed'

Die quietly and be forgotten if that's your wish, but your suicidal apathy will result in the extinction you deserve

>>719834169
>browns can make good games
Name three

>>719805452 (OP)
Eh, nothing to worry about. How many years has it been now since America put out any entertainment media worth engaging with at all?

>>719855318
Mount and Blade Warband
Zeno Clash
Kerbal Space Program
Forager

>californians become jobless and can't afford to live in california anymore
>move and infect other states as a result

>>719805452 (OP)
Good.

>>719805452 (OP)
cultural decolonization now

>>719856064
I said good games

>>719805452 (OP)
post yfw downfall of California games industry

>>719806746
>Found remote work in games industry
>shocked by layoffs
>worked 3 years building connection, analyzing data and making a group to help devs find work
Gist of it.

>>719808917
cry harder mutt

>>719807873
>Thinking anyone believes layoffs happen due to doing a bad job
It isn't the 2000's, no one but the rubes and deluded boomers believes in that bullshit anymore.
They just are laying devs off for AI slop Skinner box cosmetics Skinner box child gamblerware because purely profit motivated game businesses ran by MBA majors from an overpriced "prestige" university are fated to become like casinos and sports betting type shit.

>>719857768
Warband is straight up one of the greatest games ever made

>>719805934
>t. gamedev in Seattle
there's no gamedevs in seattle

>>719807873
more like money has run out and AI can do most of their jobs for free

>>719805452 (OP)
>>719805934
git gud lol

>>719805452 (OP)
This is good news. Americans haven't made a good game in years anyway. Europe and Asia are where the good games are coming from

leftists bro... don't tell me you can't compete with indians that can barely speak english?

>>719805452 (OP)
>"And here's another stat, over 50% of the cuts globally have been in California. California AAA is like the epicenter of the difficulty."
That's not evidence of difficulty that's evidence of CEO fags overhiring to appease investors when interest rates were low so they could enrich themselves eith no consideration for the future

>>719858545
>AI can do it
That there are retards who believe this
No it's more like they're retards who believe that and are destroying their own workforce for slop that will cost more to fix and lives off the overinflated investments of venture capital idiots that fell for the meme than just paying actual people to do stuff.

>>719859047
They can do better than the Indians just fine. But leftists live in places where you need like five thousand dollars a month just to survive while Indians live in extended family units and only need four thousand dollars a year to survive because they have parents who love them.

>>719805452 (OP)
>californians eat shit
Mega whitepill

>>719860109
Indie game studios would be nice but half of them are ran by vets who just hire their buddies and have no concept of apprenticeship like any actual trades industry does.

>>719809204
Wait until you see what they did to detroit and cincinatti before they moved to california.
Wait until you see what they did to baltimore and pittsburg before they moved to detroit.
Wait until you see what they did to atlanta before they moved to balitmore.

>>719809204
>to what it is today.
No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded?

>>719860034
AI doesn't cover everything but it absolutely helps. Anyways have fun importing millions of jeets into your country because you denied automation and AI lmao.