KnicksGadfly wrote:MrDollarBills wrote:KnicksGadfly wrote:
Ah shoot, totally fell through the cracks. It kinda depends on the company. ABK has a terrible rep with the industry. Underpaying dudes, bad managers...not sure how Microsoft will change it. I still applied a while back haha, but looking back, I'm glad I didn't go.
EA is kinda corporate, but they care a lot about diversity and inclusion (not that it's perfect, but it does try), and the studios often try to keep the main company from interfering with their work. A lot of times, people blame the overall company for mistakes the studios make though. Oh, and a crapton goes into Madden and FIFA lol, even though people call it the same game year after year, which also diverts resources from other games. People care a lot there...like, yea, it's corporate because they're public, but the people genuinely care. I enjoyed my time. I can't share the more interesting stuff though...maybe down the road, when it's less sensitive. Oh and EA is super open...I was able to meet with some pretty senior leaders during my time there, just cause I sent them a message and said I was interested in talking. Too bad I wasn't able to look more into Bioware
I think in terms of making games...it can feel really frustrating at a big company. You're basically a cog in the machine, working with all the other cogs. It's the startups where you get to use more creative muscle, but it's a lot more risky obviously. A lot of the big firms just prefer to let those small startups take risks and then build their own version of a game when the concept is validated. But yea, if you're in gaming, you're often taking a paycut compared to the other tech firms, where you get to work on selling ads and junk like that.
What's your thoughts on what happened yesterday with Activision? Seems like Microsoft just cleaned house.
I'll tell you one thing, I'm probably not buying Call of Duty 2024. Sounds like they dumped their entire QA team when the current game is full of bugs and exploits. I just don't have any fun playing anymore, I'd rather play single player titles like BG3, Spider-Man 2, Persona 3R, etc.
Hmm maybe not that surprised. I think the sad thing was that they basically shut down a new IP from Blizzard that had been in the works for 6 years.
Yea, live service titles are such a huge moneymaker (and also really different from 1P games in terms of development). As you can tell from my habits, I love my 1P titles, too, but yea...
Yeah I feel bad about the folks that lost jobs.
Live service is a cash grab, and I get it, everyone wants to try to upend or carve a piece out of the monster that Epic created with Fortnite, but the quality of those games seem to be getting worse and worse since 2017, especially the legacy titles that have shifted towards trying to grab that Fortnite cash. I was a diehard for MP games but i guess I'm just am old man now and they're not for me anymore.
