I think what’s so frustrating is executives talking about “getting swagger back” by releasing good games *in order to* increase investment, whereas every dev I know just wants to release good games when they’re ready *in order to* keep sustainably making good games that players like. - ThreadSky

catacalypto.bsky.social • 20 hours ago

I think what’s so frustrating is executives talking about “getting swagger back” by releasing good games *in order to* increase investment, whereas every dev I know just wants to release good games when they’re ready *in order to* keep sustainably making good games that players like.

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At Polygon @mmcwhertor.bsky.social reports on the email the head of global streaming and games for Warner Bros. Discovery sent to staff announcing the closures in which he talked about "getting our swagger back" one fiscal quarter at a time. www.polygon.com/news/529310/...

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fernoir.bsky.social•20 hours ago

They could have sell the studio. Even selling it to the team for a fraction of its value will be more money than zero.

catacalypto.bsky.social•17 hours ago

correct. that’s the baffling thing to me. you have people who know how to make games and a patent (sigh) on something that makes good games…

fernoir.bsky.social•16 hours ago

None of them know how to keep a business alive. The last years have just been CEO and shareholders showing how inept they're and how much they hate their employees. Not just in gaming but in major sectors.

brendansinclair.bsky.social•19 hours ago

They aren't competing with other publishers to sell games. They're competing with other WB businesses to be seen as having the greatest potential ROI and avoid being shut down.

jamespatton.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I cannot fathom the minds of these capitalists, they really seem like a different species sometimes

hfolandart.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Yeah, that... Didn't feel great.

catacalypto.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Extremely sorry you’re going through this.

joemag.games•20 hours ago

Just the broader problem of creatives wanting to create and corporate wanting to "extract value"

caylen.bsky.social•20 hours ago

love to convince investors that we're worthy of investment by getting rid of one of our three trusted & critically well received studios & cancelling our marquee comic boom game project. investors LOVE it when you tell them you are writing down a collective 8 years of active dev for Swagger

caylen.bsky.social•20 hours ago

they could have SOLD monolith for more than it would cost to shutter it! absolute clown leadership that couldn't forecast a crosswalk signal

catacalypto.bsky.social•20 hours ago

yeah, I got asked why this happened today and my answer was “apart from anything that the studio did right or wrong, critical mismanagement from WB” and I stand by that

caylen.bsky.social•20 hours ago

the stories i have heard over the past year are a lot, even for the myriad of legacy leadership issues they've had since 2015

it's disgusting and shows a total lack of understanding of the people who actually know the business part of the business

yeospaceman.bsky.social•14 hours ago

hope this doesn't sound like a knock on you lol but we have a nearly societal wide failure when it comes to the management of the largest organizations public and private

caylen.bsky.social•14 hours ago

source?

yeospaceman.bsky.social•14 hours ago

😭😭😭

erikrobson.bsky.social•13 hours ago

How do you propose we address this problem?

jamespatton.bsky.social•17 hours ago

We are doing it for the games. They are doing it for the money. It's infuriating to see something you love hollowed out into just so much shareholder value.

sinsational.bsky.social•19 hours ago

"getting swagger back" is the sort of thing that Justin Timberlake says to earn an instinctual contempt for his lumberjack flannel album. it is not a series of words that should be said by an executive

catacalypto.bsky.social•8 hours ago

this is going to ruin the tour

mtallen.bsky.social•20 hours ago

I just want to make games Cat. I promise they will be good, I swear to god.

A few of them we already have made were good.

catacalypto.bsky.social•20 hours ago

there’s a track record! I also just want to make good games

howfarcanthisgo.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Again, i keep linking back to the konami investor call literally a month back where they of all companies admit that releasing good games helped them reach record profits
If konami has started to realize that, other companies don’t really have an excuse not to either

tomlonde.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Man.... I know that getting bought up by one of these bigger companies/publishers means access to more resources, but are we going to reach a point where studios are going to start thinking that joining a larger company poses too great of an existential threat to their continued existence?

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