Because

1- they were always like this but had advisors and people to speak for them 2- it’s now cool to be a fucking racist, so if you want to be in the Trump club you better get your racism on (see zuck). It’s very very lucrative right now to go along with it and you might be illegally shut down / removed if you dont.

If games had to maintain their servers you’d see a lot less of this cash grab garbage. Good on them for taking the time to do this

It’s a mix of that, but also they have to make good on all these “AI investments” that “boost productivity” and allow employees to do more. I’m a principal engineer so it was part of my job to assess how much these tools actually boost productivity and they don’t at all. They change where the mental power goes, but it’s not really faster and is more mistake prone. If I had to make a comparison, it’s a bit like a concorde plane, it’s technically faster airspeed, but then you spend all your time trying to make a thing that can shove air out of the way faster than it wants to move (supersonic) and that’s just a lot more effort in other areas. Notice concord planes are nowhere to be seen despite existing for decades and being objectively faster. Not worth, but in the AI craze who cares.

They also took advantage of taxpayer funds to boost their profits during the pandemic, and that money is gone now, so if you aren’t cutting a big part of your staff, either you didn’t take advantage of the pandemic, or you did and you have dead weight. It’s important to note that most big tech companies made record profits during that time.

If you were a tech company and you weren’t killing off a chunk of your staff, it was a signal something was wrong with your business in some way. It’s entirely a speculative stock market thing, which is all that matters these days. They can invent other reasons why they aren’t meeting targets.

TLDR; those losses are on another spreadsheet

Yep, and in many cases people got let go, then rehired 2 days later when things got cleared up, and kept their severance. The layoffs were mostly rushed. One guy was going to be a speaker at an event for the company, and as everyone sat down waiting for him to hop on stage, they hadn’t realized he was let go. Absolute waste just to make the numbers look good on paper, but a huge loss of investment.

Imagine youre a senior engineer with 2000 stock units with accelerated vesting (was about 32$ at the time), severance at least in canada was over 20 weeks of pay lump sum given the collective dismissal + vacations. They were dropping 100k(before tx) to engineers to make them go away, and hire them back the week after.

Worst company I’ve ever worked for, but I did make a pretty penny that week. Luckily I got hired a month later somewhere else.

“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…