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Battle royale games were done better decades ago? I can't even think of a battle royale game from the 90s.
quake, unreal tournament, tribes, battlefield, planetside.. Deathmatch with many players. Same thing pretty much, but with more action.
As an aside, I loved Tribes 2 construction mod.
Don't work in the games industry. This is the par story for game companies. Every little detail of this story I saw repeating on loop in a decade of working in games. The artists grabbing assets to stuff into their portfolios before two years of professional work disappears into a black hole, the ppl moving families across country to be laid off months later, the crunch, the over promising, it is all text book. The g…
But then again, I am aware that most studios are not like that.
Absolutely sh!tty way to treat people. Won’t those left demand massive retention bonuses? How fungible are game dev skills? At least folks are getting released into a hot tech market.
That depends on the role taken. Artists are fairly fungible (probably unfairly) because they can be shown a bunch of examples and told "make something that fits with this". Coders are fungible only if you're comparing wizard-level coders who can read, understand and fix / improve a game's codebase.
What retribution? They were fired with no severance or time to prepare. Why don't they just speak out against the company that doesn't exist anymore and left them on the street?
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Apparently making the same game over and over (with different intellectual property to tie it up) does not pay off.
Can someone explain more about "making the same game over and over"? I don't know anything about these games. Were they all similar, despite being different franchises?
The strengths were in the writing and voice acting.
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quake, unreal tournament, tribes, battlefield, planetside.. Deathmatch with many players. Same thing pretty much, but with more action.
The fundamental difference between all of those games and what I would consider a battle royale game is you only get 1 life. As an aside, I loved Tribes 2 construction mod.
Don't work in the games industry. This is the par story for game companies. Every little detail of this story I saw repeating on loop in a decade of working in games. The artists grabbing assets to stuff into their portfolios before two years of professional work disappears into a black hole, the ppl moving families across country to be laid off months later, the crunch, the over promising, it is all text book. The g…
> "These sources, who were granted anonymity in order to speak freely and without fear of retribution,..." What retribution? They were fired with no severance or time to prepare. Why don't they just speak out against the company that doesn't exist anymore and left them on the street?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently making the same game over and over (with different intellectual property to tie it up) does not pay off.
Can someone explain more about "making the same game over and over"? I don't know anything about these games. Were they all similar, despite being different franchises?
Don't work in the games industry. This is the par story for game companies. Every little detail of this story I saw repeating on loop in a decade of working in games. The artists grabbing assets to stuff into their portfolios before two years of professional work disappears into a black hole, the ppl moving families across country to be laid off months later, the crunch, the over promising, it is all text book. The g…
Just as a counterpoint - I've worked for 4 years now as a programmer at one of the biggest publishers in the industry, and honestly, the work life balance is great, the pay is ok for the region(plus I get decent amount of shares every year), the work is varied, interesting and I like both what I do and people I work with. I think the last time I did overtime was 2 years ago, and even then it was only for a week aroun…
Sometimes I really hate living in the US. -_-