DEI hiring. The people working for triple A game studios don’t give a fuck about games. They don’t play them now and havent played them in the past yet they get to decide how they’re written and the mechanics. Thats why the games are so packed with whatever buzzword feature is popular, looter shoot check, crafting check, rare quality system for weapons check, skill tree check, female lead character check, black character check, micro transaction store check, lootboxes check, esports check.
Loot boxes, everything is a subscription, Activision CEO floats charging players for each magazine of video game ammo
Game studios blow out install file size on pointlessly high resolution textures
Studios try to ship a game that should take five years to dev in three, tell investors they’ll do it in two or else it’s the dev’s fault, and so end up shipping broken games and patching them later.
DEI hiring. The people working for triple A game studios don’t give a fuck about games. They don’t play them now and havent played them in the past yet they get to decide how they’re written and the mechanics. Thats why the games are so packed with whatever buzzword feature is popular, looter shoot check, crafting check, rare quality system for weapons check, skill tree check, female lead character check, black character check, micro transaction store check, lootboxes check, esports check.
This fucking guy: why would women do this?
You think it’s dei?
No, it’s all the old white dudes at the top making those decisions.
some of these are not like the others.