This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Activision wants to kill your dog.

There’s something developers and gamers need to realize, and they need to realize it now.

This sort of activity isn’t limited to Activision or EA.

This strong-arm, fear-mongering happens almost every day at almost every studio.

How many stories like Activision vs. Infinity Ward, Rockstar San Diego, EA Spouse, etc, are you people going to need to hear before it starts to sink in that these encounters aren’t exceptions. The only exception is that these are the stories you get to hear. These are the ones made public. And for each of these stories made public, there are literally hundreds of similar stories I could share from just about every major developer and publisher in the industry that you haven’t heard.

And this is why I absolutely cannot stand hardcore gamers. Because despite all this crap in the news, and all the underlying issues they don’t hear everyday, they’ll still post in a forum somewhere that it wouldn’t matter to them. They’d work in these sort of conditions if it meant they could work on their beloved, precious video games. They offer to work longer hours for less pay. They’ll say things like “Well, that’s every job” or “At least you get to work on games”. And they have no god damn clue what the hell they are talking about.

And then the management sees this and uses it against us, the actual developers. “See, look, here’s 20 people who will do you job in worse conditions for less money and not complain about it.”

Lovely.

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