@inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
2026-10-29 22:55 UTC
Replies (4)
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@kalman@dboft.com 2026-10-29 23:21
Zeschuk nails it, and it lines up with something Nate Hagens talked about on The Great Simplification: a company doesn’t need a single villain at the top to behave like a psychopath, it just needs to be structured so that extraction beats CRAFT every time. That’s what “none of these people have ever made a game” feels like to me. BioWare was built on people who loved the work and took the time it needed; the PIF/private-equity model wants annual sports titles and predictable margins. Hagens’ talks about traits out-competing values, so the people with the values (Zeschuk) walk away from the crucible and the people with the extraction reflex keep hammering forward. We ALL have this SAME problem people.. wtf are we going to do about it is the question.
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@CorneliusTalmadge@lemmy.world 2026-10-29 23:12
Welcome to every industry under capitalism. The business/finance majors have it under control. They have no idea what it takes to make anything or what even makes the products/services valuable to others but they are positive it can be done cheaper.
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@raman_klogius@ani.social 2026-10-30 00:21
MBAs will ruin the planet
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@Benchamoneh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-30 08:13
This industry has taken a wrong turn and is now at an impasse. We need to step back to when small teams of developers made lightweight games. It’s not like anybody’s got the RAM or GPU compute to run some of these newer titles anyway. Developers, if you’re serious about making a game, take your ideas, leave the company you work for (before they let you go), and make it alone or with friends and close colleagues. Let’s right this wrong. Let’s make affordable games that run on affordable hardware again.