You may have seen last the ESL Battle of the Brands was announced. An eSports event like no other, where four UK brands would face off against each other in a number of video game contests. Full Sync provides a short summary of the day's events, as well as a shared video of all the action that unfolded in the competition hosted by ESL.
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Speaking with Game File at the Game Developers Choice Awards, Larian director of publishing Michael Douse gave his take on the current state of the industry, including some sharp criticism on the wave after wave of mass layoffs we've been seeing.
My point exactly. These companies have to start wondering if it is so acceptable to pay 9 digits to CEOs instead of creating a reserve account for safety and to secure the company's future in the long run
Layoffs have are a short term solution to a long term problem. If these companies don't have anyone doing the actual work, they can't grow. Profits have skyrocketed at the expense of the in the chair devs.
Those are highly skilled employees. The quality of AAA(A) games are going to plummet.
Larian has been killing it. They are saying all the right things and they are listening to fans. I'm extremely happy with their decision to actually doing a physical release was super dope. Alot of studios could learn from them
The investors want their money. Let's deal with this issue along with the greedy management issue as well.
A lot of this stems from the players buying remastered/live service games. If companies can put minimal effort into making a product that sells well why not cut the fat? Games come out broken, drm ridden, incomplete and players still buy them. I have over 650 ps3/ps4 games and about 10 ps5 games. I’m still mostly playing ps4 games. The qualities gotten that bad (across the board). Make these companies start caring about their products buy voicing your opinions with your wallets and they’ll feel obligated to keep more devs on payroll.
Former Xbox executive Mike Ybarra has applauded PlayStation first party games as “bangers” that are worth celebrating.
Must be hard if you're passion is gaming and the company you work for only wants to purchase and lock away what's already there. Seeing what Nintendo, PlayStation and independent studios can do with far less recourses just makes MS very unappealing.
I have yet to play Rise of the Ronin, but other that that, yeah, the PS5 is killing in this first quarter of 2024, I still can't get enough of Helldivers 2 and FFVII is probably a very strong contender to be GotY
Even xbox exceutives former or not knew playstation kept releasing bangers.
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They really do deliver the goods and consistently. You gotta love PlayStation even of you hate PlayStation.