Activision installs political commissars on every dev team

Games went to shit when it started taking hundreds of people five years to create a bog standard AAA title. No vision, no identity, and because each project is such a massive investment it leaves tons of room for corporate interference.

Hopefully AI and other tech advances can help some with asset production and make things more manageable for artists/designers again.

A hypothetical farm sim about dating fat hairy lesbians made by 7 individuals is more soulful than anything activision or other top name developers have put out recently.

I welcome indie games fracturing the market when AAA games prove unsustainable.

Nah, they've been shit for well over a decade.

Wanna bet Catbat plays to human s*x stereotypes and not feline or batline gender norms?

kill them chuds pls

>catbat

The programming was top down, tumblr kids were merely the first victims

And got into kids shows.

Be careful, they dont use pronouns but they use ALL pronouns

As I understand it they started as helpful things to for people with similar job descriptions to pool resources in massive companies but rainbows taking their identity to work made their own that became little insurgencies over time

It's pretty standard at large corporations to have minority organizations that organize small events, but explicitly saying that these organizations are given special opportunities to connect to leadership is interesting, as I'm surprised that this would not be seen as a legal risk.

This is why Pope Clement XIV, wisely, banned groups like the freemasons and the jesuits for stirring shit up. Now the Holy See itself has been corrupted by their influence

This happened at IBM, according to that one big racial discrimination lawsuit. HR was apparently full of insane women who went head first into the political movements like cultists and had segregated social groups.

Most large companies have them.

Go to most brokers and you'll see an ESG score on any publicly traded company. This score often determines what is batched into most mutual funds and pension funds. When you put money into your 401k and it goes to your BlackRock 2060 fund, black rock is deciding on what does and doesn't make it in that retirement fund through a variety of methods, one of which is ESG. Getting into one of these funds is vital for lots of publicly traded companies (and private with how popular private equity is now), it essentially guarantees you a steady flow of stock purchases every 2 weeks.

You can improve ESG with lots of bullshit activism and fluff DEI garbage, which is why you see Raytheon talking about how much they love butt s*x. It's worked too, here is the ESG of Raytheon, the company that manufactures missiles that kill brown kids, vs TSLA, the electric vehicle company. The difference is that TSLA doesn't promote DEI and has a controversial CEO, whereas RTX pretends they feel really bad about making WMDs.

someone explain ESG scores to this motherlover im too lazy

It certainly disproves when more mainstream commentators say "These companies are so greedy they ignore the g*mers, it's all about greed and money to them, capitalism is the reason why gaming sucks, remember to only argue about greed and nothing else when criticizing gaming companies" and then companies like Sony made decisions that made a huge portion of their audience unable to play Helldivers (which directly reduces future profit), with the main reason given being that they could ban people more easily.

You have to look at it from a different angle.

These identity based employee groups and the embracing of DEI are the companies evolving themselves in a way to shield from lawsuits and bad press.

Yea their product declined in quality a little bit but the perception that they are “on the right side of history” is seen as a long term benefit to prevent some stupid lefty tard pr issue from coming up in the future or to be used in court against the next white woman girl boss who tries to sue them for #metoo shit.

Wokeshit allows capitalism, that's the beauty of it and why corporations are so into it. It allows them to get back pats and cater to schizophrenic delusional r-slurs while being greedier and scummier than ever.

Companies need money. Rich strags that care about DEI will give them money for putting in strag shit. Company complies puts in strag shit for free money. The game fails. Company needs money to recoup losses. Repeat over and over.

it's just women are the future of consumers from a long term financial perspective under capitalism and it's obligations to shareholders. women make more money, have fewer kids and are less likely to be married than ever before. married men also make almost double what single men do because why bother doing more than necessary if you don't have a wife and kids to support? see animal crossing or how mobile gaming makes more than pc and console gaming combined for a video game example or how that marketing women blew up bud light in a long term attempt to slowly start shifting the brand to have more appeal to women since men's drinking is trending downward and beer along with it

Because it pleases the powerful political figures that control the government and economy, effectively making them preferred agents of the uniparty and securing access to resources and protection

"woke, DEI, critical theory, those are just madeup buzzwords"

"welcome to gigacorp, please report to your mandatory day 1 DE&I programming"

It does have an impact, depending on how HR operates. Some departments are very into everyone else's business and will browbeat you. The one place I worked at had HR force document and code changes for words that reminded them of black people. The other place has HR obsessing over how to prevent any theoretical trauma during onboarding.

Most of them had a veneer of nicety but they were just like the crazy christian proselytizers who only liked you if you did what they wanted. "Firm but gentle hand" and all that.

yes

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