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Our society has centered money over any other value. Art is seen as a lucky byproduct and I hate this view. At this point in human existence why is money so much more important than preserving and displaying the joy of living and connecting with others.

*comemorate *how* evil

Yeah, the way vulture capitalists have managed to fuck over creative industries is terrible. They don't care about experience, skills and legacy. Just their own wealth. 🙁

I loved old Bioware but this is just putting down a zombified husk at this point. Everyone that worked on the games I loved had left long ago. I don't blame the developer of course, EA has a whole graveyard full of studios they have bought and destroyed over time in the same way.

At one job, I did a project for a client where my contribution was 16 drawings. Automation was involved, but all done by me. The estimate for the client was 40 hours a drawing. I wasn’t told that. Next project for that client, it was 25. Since the “assembly line” was set up, easy. Raise for me? Nope

The reason everything’s going to shit is B/C business majors are running everything as opposed to people who actually know anything. Like you no longer have engineers in charge at Boeing, just finance bros. Hence why the planes are falling apart. You can easily dredge up more examples of this.

Yeah - people who paid attention saw the writing on the wall after ME:Andromeda. The broader fan-base had it all but confirmed after Anthem. And DA:Veilguard was just the whimpering death-rattle of the company.

I blame Jared and the Saudi elite, for clearly they hold the reins over a video game dev company and - holy fuck, oh my god, we actually live in a timeline where this is the case.

100000% yes

This is why we need profit sharing.

This is exactly why art needs a different type of industry that never sells out for money gold and riches and animations and games need to be released into the public domain instead of sold and hoarded into lost media forever. Companies do not care about creations. They care about the bottom-line.

Private Equity in art feels the worst, because it draws the starkest difference between people who truly create something of value, and shareholders, who create nothing

Hey don't worry, if you make a soulless yet successful cash-grab of a game you'll also have your job taken from you. So everyone can share that fate.

The snake is eating itself and has almost gotten to the head.

And with layoffs and closures like these happening industry-wide, there's not even enough companies hiring to absorb the talent that was cast aside. So many have to abandon the dream of making games altogether, leading to a generational loss of subject matter expertise.

Unionize. Strike. It's not like the people buying the product aren't explicitly on your side. Tech has an inherent bias that attracts loners/self-starters. Somebody needs to organize all of you if we're not breaking out the guillotines.

Feels at one point one needs to fund their own publisher without incentive for infinite growth that can risk funding these huge projects.

They danced with the devil and got got, it sucks.

Load it with debt. Break it down and sell it for parts.

Well said man

EA has become the epitome of capitalism and corporate greed.

I think it would be safe to say that corporate mismanagement led to the talent drain at Bioware, as well as the tortured development of their last few games. It's a mercy killing at this point, but dozens of studios under the EA umbrella have followed the same course.