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an internal review from the Xbox team
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Am I supposed to read this? Either I need to check my eyesight or the text is almost unreadable.
 
It’s reading for ants...

The game maybe technically ahead of others (according to them), & loved by critics & game journalists (which manes little these days, much like critics review of movies), its also VERY DIVISIVE among gamers who either love or hate it, unlike say Ghost of Tsushima, which is univerally loved.
 
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The sheer amount of money hoarded by videogame executives is astounding, especially when you're constantly told that videogames are too expensive to make.
Bobby Kotick just "halved" his pay, but is still in line to make hundreds of millions of dollars on top of the billions he has, and CD Projekt RED's five board members just gave themselves enough money to cover over 800 people. The way in which this money is accumulated is often corrupt in and of itself.

Meanwhile, employees are abused and underpaid. Videogames cut more corners and add more predatory economies. We're told there's not enough money, but the truth is there's MORE than enough. It's just constantly sucked out of the industry by parasites.
 
Top executives being greedy & took lionshare all the money while treating low level workers as expanables are not new. Its unfornate same in mine. 2 tier system, the untouchable & the expendable.

They cut our pay (said corona) but when ask why ain't their pay being cut, our ex coe said their pay was decide by shareholders, also cutting top executives will made them go to other companies. the same CEO that tell us to be royal to the company.

This is the type of shi+, plus political corruption/self interest that lead so many (especially young) people to support communism/socialism. which is worse (we knew, 1/2 of germany & half of Europe were communist, if its that good, people will have protest to return) , but current politcal climate & corp greed are not helping for sure.
 
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The problem is how profit is looked at now. Obviously, everyone wants to make money. The problem today is that the push for profit growth is insane. You'll see headlines about how "Company X missed their profit growth number". It sounds bad, but they actually still made tons of money, just not quite as much as was expected. It becomes a beast that can never be fed fully. I've seen companies treated as a failure because they "only" had 25% profit growth instead of the predicted 30%. They made 25% MORE than last year, but that's not enough. That's the mentality.

The other big trend and this is where things go off the rails - companies focus on the short term. Nobody wants to be the next iconic corporation that lasts 100+ years, they want to make a trillion dollars this quarter and who cares what happens next?

When a company focused on long term profits, they care about things like employees. They want and need employees to be productive long term. That means paying employees, giving them benefits so they want to work long term. Once they only care about the next quarter, all that goes out the window. Employees are just resources to be used up and spit out. Crack the whip, and if you aren't getting what you want, crack it harder!

If you're worked long enough in any industry you've probably worked for someone like this, but definitely in IT. The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Everyone gets into this short term mode, but it suddenly becomes permanent.
 
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The problem is how profit is looked at now. Obviously, everyone wants to make money. The problem today is that the push for profit growth is insane. You'll see headlines about how "Company X missed their profit growth number". It sounds bad, but they actually still made tons of money, just not quite as much as was expected. It becomes a beast that can never be fed fully. I've seen companies treated as a failure because they "only" had 25% profit growth instead of the predicted 30%. They made 25% MORE than last year, but that's not enough. That's the mentality.

The other big trend and this is where things go off the rails - companies focus on the short term. Nobody wants to be the next iconic corporation that lasts 100+ years, they want to make a trillion dollars this quarter and who cares what happens next?

When a company focused on long term profits, they care about things like employees. They want and need employees to be productive long term. That means paying employees, giving them benefits so they want to work long term. Once they only care about the next quarter, all that goes out the window. Employees are just resources to be used up and spit out. Crack the whip, and if you aren't getting what you want, crack it harder!

If you're worked long enough in any industry you've probably worked for someone like this, but definitely in IT. The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Everyone gets into this short term mode, but it suddenly becomes permanent.
Stock has a lot to do with it. To make money is not enough, you need to grow in profit to please shareholders.
 
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I heard CoD mobile is very popular in China, much like PubG is is India. Warzone is still popular.

I wouldn't be surprise they made a Chinese COD where you play as member of People liberation Army soon.
 
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Stock has a lot to do with it. To make money is not enough, you need to grow in profit to please shareholders.

Yes, and the stocks are what puts people in that short term mentality. Make money today, and so what if you are pushing workers to make a buggy product that's going to explode in 6 months? Announce the game is doing fine and keep the stocks high.

They are actually acting against their own long term best interests. They will end up making less money in the long term because they only cared about today.
 
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This one isn't as impressive graphically because it's during the day and all of the shiny reflection effects are missing but man a more polished version of a game like this would be fun lol.

 
Top executives being greedy & took lionshare all the money while treating low level workers as expanables are not new. Its unfornate same in mine. 2 tier system, the untouchable & the expendable.

They cut our pay (said corona) but when ask why ain't their pay being cut, our ex coe said their pay was decide by shareholders, also cutting top executives will made them go to other companies. the same CEO that tell us to be royal to the company.

This is the type of shi+, plus political corruption/self interest that lead so many (especially young) people to support communism/socialism. which is worse (we knew, 1/2 of germany & half of Europe were communist, if its that good, people will have protest to return) , but current politcal climate & corp greed are not helping for sure.
My first fulltime job was in a hospital in 1993 and our facility paid about $3.00 an hour lower for entry level jobs and $7.00 an hour lower for nursing than the area average. Our CEO was making twice what the CEO's of much bigger hospitals in our area made and our CFO and COO were making about the same as the CEO's of those other hospitals. What made it worse was we had a wage freeze on for two years and our CEO gave himself a $1 million bonus, if it hadn't been for the local paper we wouldn't have known. They tried to say "oh well the board approved it because he was doing such a good job" lol no other hospital in our area paid that low or had a wage freeze yet he was doing a good job?

That's about the time I started to realize that with a lot of companies employees are looked at as a necessary evil and not part of the team. The people who actually do the work keeping the places running and taking care of all of the things that need to be taken care of are interchangeable drones to board members and executives. It may be different in small companies where there is an actual owner who gets to know each employee or at least see's their faces every day but when you can basically hide from the people who work for you and you rarely if ever see them they really don't mean much and it's sad.
 
My first fulltime job was in a hospital in 1993 and our facility paid about $3.00 an hour lower for entry level jobs and $7.00 an hour lower for nursing than the area average. Our CEO was making twice what the CEO's of much bigger hospitals in our area made and our CFO and COO were making about the same as the CEO's of those other hospitals. What made it worse was we had a wage freeze on for two years and our CEO gave himself a $1 million bonus, if it hadn't been for the local paper we wouldn't have known. They tried to say "oh well the board approved it because he was doing such a good job" lol no other hospital in our area paid that low or had a wage freeze yet he was doing a good job?

That's about the time I started to realize that with a lot of companies employees are looked at as a necessary evil and not part of the team. The people who actually do the work keeping the places running and taking care of all of the things that need to be taken care of are interchangeable drones to board members and executives. It may be different in small companies where there is an actual owner who gets to know each employee or at least see's their faces every day but when you can basically hide from the people who work for you and you rarely if ever see them they really don't mean much and it's sad.
Those first few lines remind me of high school, make it stop....I still have recurring dreams of failing or not studying for an exam
 
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Available on PC now. Gonna give this game another go. I haven't played the DLC, so this is going to be fun.
 

“The Yakuza series has been transformed into a turn-based RPG. On the other hand, over the year, Ryu ga Gotoku Studio has accumulated resources and know-how of making flashy and exhilarating action games that are effortless to enjoy. We decided that we should let our signature action gameplay live on through Lost Judgement.”
 
Competition is good. Whether you look epic store or the company. Epic support small studio much more than stream. Steam demand 30% of your revenue, & epic 12% & only if you made 100k I’m revenue or more, otherwise they do not even charge. The difference is significant.

Steam does willing to lower royality, & like epic baes on revenue, but the other direction! They will lower the royalties if you made MORE revenu, in effort to attract big developers like Cancom, Ubisoft. so if you are an india Studio, you pay more in royalty ( by percentage) than big studios.....

I have a lot of criticism of epic, but it’s obviously there is a double standard where come company like Sony and steam were tried less harshly than MS and Epic.
 
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