After a thorough investigation we’ve compiled a list of gaming industry CEOs who reduced their own pay in an effort to curb the number of…
    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
      6114·
      9 months ago

      This isn’t even a joke. The article doesn’t actually show a list or anything. It’s 2 paragraphs and they just say they compiled a list. I dunno if the article itself is an Onion-like satirical joke or just fucking awful.

        • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
          10·
          9 months ago

          I was wondering what that article was on about!? But knowing that, I will follow that news outlet more closely for the lols…

      • Aabbcc@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        They tried to phrase the joke as “opening paragraph, conclusion paragraph, therefore empty middle section” but yeah I agree it wasn’t so clear

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    87·
    9 months ago

    It wasn’t this year, but I remember when Satoru Iwata and a bunch of other Nintendo executives took pay cuts when the Wii U was underperforming rather than laying off workers.

    So it does happen, just not very often with most companies.

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    473·
    9 months ago

    Fun fact, the layoffs result in the executives (and in the case of giant companies like Microsoft just higher ups in general) getting massive bonuses.

  • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
    349·
    9 months ago

    I hate websites like this, I’m reading the article, and as I scroll through reading it, it starts to talk about something closely related but not quite the topic of the article, then it gets further and further from the point.

    Then finally you realise it’s just feeding a bunch of DIFFERENT articles to you, making them look like they’re just subsections of the first article.

    Especially as the first article seems to be incredibly short and ends abruptly without including the one bit of content they said they’d include, and there’s no reasonable separator or footer or spacer or anything to separate the article from the next one.

    Eventually you realise they’ve wasted your time and duped you and you vow to never look at that website again, but christ, it’s annoying.

    • Schaedelbach@feddit.deEnglish
      49·
      9 months ago

      Just in case no one bothered to check: This website is satire. The list is not there, because that’s the joke. Not a good one but, oh well.

      If you don’t believe me: From the About section:

      Hard Drive is a very real video games news site that you should not question. Just absorb the information as truth and move on. JK it’s satire don’t ban us.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      162·
      9 months ago

      This article has a comment section, so it’s very clear where the article ends. I checked on both mobile and desktop, and it’s there on both.

      I agree in general, but this page isn’t confusing whatsoever.

        • AGD4@programming.devEnglish
          9·
          9 months ago

          I can confirm the Conversations section is blocked by uBlock Origin on the Android mobile Firefox browser. Is that what you’re using, by chance?

          Kind of an odd thing for the add-on to target.

          • bob_lemon@feddit.deEnglish
            5·
            9 months ago

            I do use that, yes.

            Really kind of a strange thing to block, might actually be worth reporting to uBlock.

            • AGD4@programming.devEnglish
              6·
              9 months ago

              kind of a strange thing to block

              After checking the “conversations”, I see several work-from-home scam comments. Maybe it’s best to keep it blocked, lol.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          I see a section called “Conversation” between the article text and the Hasbro section. It did take a second or so to load, but it loaded.

      • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
        83·
        9 months ago

        To be fair, this isn’t just a problem with not recognizing satire, but it is a problem with shitty websites that are nothing more than vectors for an absolute megafuck ton of ads. That site was 100% garbage. And more websites are fusing articles together under what appear to be subheadings but are actually whole ass titles.

        • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
          55·
          9 months ago

          Wow. Anyone else want to write way too much about how they completely missed the joke?

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            32·
            9 months ago

            Yeah, I agree with the criticism in general, but this one has a comment section below the article. That’s a pretty clear indication that this article has ended.

            Those crappy sites that OP is complaining about don’t have anything separating articles.

          • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
            13·
            9 months ago

            Jesus. It’s a sad commentary on how far society has fallen when a small paragraph is considered “writing way too much.” And I wasn’t the person you initially replied to. I didn’t even read the article because the site was such a cancer. I opened reader and it ended up opening a different article so I just bailed on the whole thing. I was adding to the conversation by talking a little about he trend I’ve noticed to rope people into spending more time on sites (read: getting more ad money). Although, I’m sure I’ve lost you at this point in this novel of a paragraph, so I might as well be saying “blah blah blah blah”

  • Excel@lemmy.megumin.orgEnglish
    173·
    9 months ago

    We should be giving even more respect to the ones that kept their own salary reasonable in the first place so that a pay cut wasn’t necessary.

      • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        I thought it was an actual article, and it was some video that wasn’t loading. Result: It went above my head high enough to be in geostationary orbit.

        • AmberPrince@kbin.social
          6·
          9 months ago

          I’m more of an elliptical orbit kinda guy. Sometimes I almost get it but most of the time the point just keeps getting farther and farther away.

          • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            To be fair, “geostationary altitude” combined with “passing over” implies an elliptical orbit.

      • tristan@aussie.zoneEnglish
        51·
        9 months ago

        It’s a little confusing when immediately after “here’s the list” it shows a story about Hasbro laying off 1100 people… I was looking in the hasbro post to try and see where it said the CEO took a cut, instead it says more with the savings they can pay managers more

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    524·
    9 months ago

    The understanding of CEO pay is childish around here. Back on reddit I ran the math on American Airlines for giggles. If the CEO took $0 pay, every employee could enjoy a .03 raise.

    Are they overcompensated? My instinct says hell yes. But the math almost always shows that it’s a drop in the bucket. And my “gut feeling” means nothing when the market says, “We think he’s worth $X million a year.” Fuck my feelings. If that’s what the company wants to pay, that’s their prerogative.

    It’s funny how we used to bitch about sports stars making mad bank, and somehow, we just all forgot to complain. Also, when the billionaire pitchforks come out, I’ve never once seen Taylor Swift’s name come up. Huh.

    Lemmy likes to pretend that CEOs do nothing because their vast experience tells them that McDonald’s is far harder work. The CEO can make or break the whole company. Company values and culture flows down from the CEO. How many times have we seen a foolish CEO cost a company 10’s of millions?

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      17·
      9 months ago

      How many times have we seen a foolish CEO cost a company 10’s of millions?

      And how many times have we seen them still get golden parachutes and continue to be successful in life?

      They aren’t the problem, but they’re a symptom. It makes sense that people are angry towards them.

      • tuckerm@supermeter.social
        81·
        9 months ago

        There’s also the fact that the amount they make (plus business culture in general) is going to be creating and reinforcing a God complex in them. I often wonder if a lower salary for CEOs would actually result in them being better decision makers. What if their kids went to the same school as their customers’ kids?

        People of all political ideologies say they want their political leaders to be “in touch” with everyday people; why would we want business leaders to make so much money that they wouldn’t even have to look at an everyday person if they didn’t want to?

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          And that’s why I feel small businesses are way better than large ones. Yeah, they don’t benefit from economies of scale, but they do benefit from actually caring.

          I’ll bet just video game CEOs have never actually played the games they make, while most indie CEOs at least play test, if not actually work on the game directly.