Speaking at the Games Convention in Leipzig, Bernd Diemer, senior game designer of Crytek, explained that next-generation consoles don't offer enough computational power to run Crysis, German publication Heise reported.
The new unit comprises over 500 developers representing the entire World of Warcraft development team.
I used to be anti-union, it kills productivity, investment and turns product mediocre. Their games suck anyways though so what was lost? Might as well get their people paid until they are dissolved.
Unions are necessary regardless of how you feel. You know how fked the working class would be without them. As if we're not already.
No they aren’t, regardless of how you feel. Unions make zero sense for skill based labor. They are for people who press a button every 10 seconds on an assembly line. “working class” is a made up term. I don’t care about corporations or developers, I just want good games lol. Killing your incentives to appease the lowest common denominator doesn’t lead to great games imo
I wasn’t trying to be offensive if I came off that way. The Union is an old mentality and I can see their usefulness but also the danger. We’re in the age of AI and robots and skill based labor. Unions can be dangerous these days. You could replace your entire workforce in one move. Checkmate. Look to the kiosk replacing workers in the 20 dollar minimum wage era.
Well run businesses don’t need unions. If you need a Union that business won’t survive anyway. Unless it’s propped up by the government with corporate welfare (which is the real issue). If you’re not going to spend some on your workers (Amazon, Google) then your welfare is cut off. No tax breaks. All you put together don’t match their wealth and resources, the union is a traditional memory at this point and counterproductive with this new enemy we face. They need a flying elbow from the top ropes. And by “working class is a made up term” I just mean we’re not a class system and even CEO Bobby Kotick puts in a days work lol. Or did.. It’s just a vague term that doesn’t mean anything no offense lol. People say “middle class” but that can change quick right? Up or down. That’s not a “class system”.
Modders have cooked up something pretty special – a Wii console which is small enough to fit on your keys. A wee Wii.
Another studio has held layoffs, this time its Humble Games letting go of its entire QA team according to social media posts.
They will rehire cheaper labor during the restructuring. The stupid thing is that they are struggling and the first thing they do is lower the quality.
I wasn't looking forward to photo-realistic, destructible environments, anyways! :S
How much are they getting paid to push MS Vista on this one. The damn game is runing on current DX9 hardware.
too bad
this is major bullsh!t for sure. He says it's because DX10 is missing. But why then the game is DX9 with some additional things borrowed from DX10?
Why would F.E.A.R. in highest settings run easily on a 360, or get the result of Gears of War? Right. I guess this is just meant to push Windows Vista a bit, because I haven't heard of one game that needed that yet
"the next-generation DirectX API, which will ship along Windows Vista, allows more effects and more objects to be drawn on the screen with a smaller computational cost for the hardware. "
What he states is true ofcourse. DX10 does amazing things. But the 360 API effects can be just as good, if not better, but they are just different then the standard DX10 set. Before he states something like this it would be a good thing to get into the possibilities in the special designed API 360 effects and not think only in ports of DX9 or DX10 stuff
i smell some laziness in this..they better take an extra more months to get this baby just about right..imagine buying a nextgen console 2 months ago and soon they telling u sh*t can`t run on it.This game better be nice on console or f@ck it then