Doc Blaze

cut those people out of your lives forever!

sorry mom and dad, kick the iPads or I’m not answering the phone anymore

scientology is going to be interesting af

I’m not just taking about epic, there were layoffs in basically every gaming company that exists the past few months

see this for more: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/2907340

unity, naughty dog, Ubisoft, EA, Amazon games (twitch) and much more.

bit of a strawmans argument you’re refuting here.

unnecessary

I hate to have to justify layoffs but it’s at least true that lots of studios are unexpectedly (from a couple years ago) hemorrhaging cash right now. anytime inflation is so high for so long, discretionary spending on entertainment is near the first to get cut from consumers budgets. people aren’t sitting at home like we were in 2021 only buying digital entertainment anymore.

I’m okay with this. I’d play with them constantly.

As the old saying goes, give a man a fish he gets a titjob for today, but teach a man to fish… 🤭

The CEO is the founder and majority shareholder and epic is privately funded so probably not gonna happen

Evidently, all of Epic Games’ business had been “heavily funded by Fortnite” in the last six years, and different parts of the company became “disconnected” from their revenue streams.

Wait, so youre really telling me me Epic giving away a ton of free games on EGS every single month and free unreal engine marketplace assets to devs as well as regular epic megagrants was never a financially sustainable move?

Psssh. In other news, salt is salty. 🤭

I honestly believe Tim is not going to f–k this one up though, as a former one he clearly cares about the game dev community and as majority shareholder he isn’t needing to be driven by profits as much as publicly traded Unity head John Riccatello is.

Plus, fortnite is still a goddamn cash printer, just not printing as fast as they expected.

starbreeze: payday 3 sucks donkey balls and nobody’s playing it.

naughty dog: okay, but we’re actually having to lay off people now.

epic games: sure, but so are we AND we’re also selling Bandcamp.

unity: whatever amateurs, I’m the one having the worst Q4 2023!

Ubisoft: snickers oh yeah? hold both my beers AND my shot glass.

seriously, you’d think with the holiday season coming up studios would be crunching to get their games ready in time, but since unity shit the bed and epic took their lead it’s been nothing but bad news in the AA and AAA space

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oh okay, thanks.

respectfully, what is this? it’s just a subject. what discussion are you having about NPCs? are they good, bad, unnecessary bloat? improving with the pace of AI? the best 10 NPCs of all time? NPCs based on real characters? I don’t really want to risk a click until I know what I’m fully getting myself into.

if you read the title too fast and overlooked the word “seal” this takes on an ENTIRELY different meaning 😮

absolutely nails the Brooklyn hipster look

half expecting him to be walking down Bushwick avenue drinking pabst blue ribbon out of a paper bag in an artsy photographic redrawing from 2014

I also had that same idea of creating a small army of super swole mice to help me pull off the ultimate heist on the federal reserve, but since you thought of first I guess you can have it

oh right, you mean those people with furaffinity accounts 🤭

you mean these guys right?

The most natural diet supplement of all time (unfortunately it tasted terrible until they combined it with banana cream smoothie powder).