“Anyways, we’re announcing layoffs”

Xcom, xcom2

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Or ya know, the steam deck is on a platform they are trying to take over by throwing money at their store. Of course they aren’t going to make it easy for kids to play on deck.

You’d be right on the money imo.

I’ve been a AAA developer for almost 2 decades, and there is no way in hell they did not explicitly sign to have the sony account linking. I didn’t like the way he acted on twitter acting like the poor indy dev getting wrecked by the tyrant, when he was hoping it would fly.

He thought it would be okay to sell your data for his chance at making a game. When it backfired due to popularity, he didn’t take any responsibility and let sony look bad. I bet there’s a lot of people at Sony who didn’t like that.

It’s simple. Game companies made a killing during the pandemic with money meant to sustain the economy. Now the economy isn’t so good and debt is expensive, so it’s time to cut headcount as fast as possible to book record profits. Same for most tech companies, hell companies in general.

Then they’ll start whining it’s hard to make money these days and they need a tax payer backed boost to get people working again “for the benefit of the economy”. They are holding it hostage, and the politicians are playing into it for personal gain.

Needless to say it’s not getting better any time soon.

Long-term monopoly

The switch is 7 years old, the deck is barely 2 years old. There no need for a deck 2.

You think Sony forgot PSN isnt available in all countries?

They 100% knew, and didnt expect there would be enough people in those regions to cause a fuss.

They were gonna pull helldivers from steam in all countries without PSN, and that’s what they did. They didn’t care for reimbursements once the game got popular.

They just didn’t expect it to be very popular, which is probably why AH agreed to it in the first place

The worlds video game industry*.

They got really buffed on investments during the pandemic like we were going to stay in our house for the rest of our lives.

Now interest is high and investors aren’t as excited. It wouldn’t hurt for the industry to crash and get rid of these moneygrabbers who are in for a short peak, we’d have better games

The day the 3rd party apps left reddit, I’ve been wandering around, looking for what once was

Depending on which employer you move to, you can still be sued regardless of non-competes, happens all the time where non-competes don’t exist (California). You can still receive a cease and desist depending on what you have worked on and where you are working now based on the IP regulations and non-disclosures, so this does nothing (and nobody in the industry is actually celebrating this except a few executives where the was enforceable).

I’ve signed dozens of these contracts, I know how they affect people, I know what they mean and how they are used.

The article admits nobody is actually celebrating this, and it hasn’t passed. Y’all are just hopping on the bandwagon.

That’s the whole joke. Nobody here actually gets the article or case. It helps only those who have garden leaves and extra money in their contract not to go anywhere. Today they call them “fractional executives”.

Downvote all you want, at the end of the day the cease and desist they received would still happen even after this is passed, because slap suits and IP are still a thing.

To prevent people from being paid by multiple companies at the same time, which is a thing only execs do…

I’m still fine with the story and the arguments it had. I didnt change anything, his story of when he was a kid isn’t part of the case, it’s anecdotal.

Youre still the one who has made no arguments

The argument I did make is the non-competes were never there to "retain talent. Imo this disproportionately helps executives make more money and that’s why it’s being passed.

So because slap suits for ridiculous reasons exists we can use them as examples for any other case?

It’s funny you disregard that each argument I made is also made in the argument, and his little story is not part of the actual case, so its authenticity is irrelevant and doesn’t make your point.

You’ve been familiar with the story for an hour, give yourself a chance.

And this story wasn’t written when it happened, if it actually happened the way he describes it (there’s no source).

I know the issues in the industry, I’m in it, and this is why the article has plenty of:

Digging up stories of developers being directly impacted by noncompetes was a little tricky. Plenty of folks had seen the language in contracts, but not many had had them actually enforced.

The story he describes as a kid is more akin to a slap suit. The IPs we build and the techs we make are still not protected by this, and the same cease and desist could be sent to a company where they think.you are using their tech.