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Congrats on the channel growth dude. I am going to bet that all woke/DEI/Feminazi Xbox/Halo dev team is going to gender/race swap Master Chief in their next title.
I hope Atlus can fix the dubs for metaphor but right now i plan to buy it when the phsy version is on sale and the only game i am looking to buy is the soul reaver remasterds
The idea that localization is "hard to deal with" is stupid. All the company has to do is teach someone to speak English or hire a native english speaker and teach them Jap and then you can get rid of the entire overseas localization industry...... its literally the easiest thing to fix of all these problems.
at this point, im starting to think there are people planted inside these companies to destroy it so it gets sold to chinese companies, there is no way so many people are so dumb
@@Skateandcreate9 because they are intent on pushing a message, not giving us what we want. It's what their pay masters believe we NEED to see. We need to be educated and coerced into behaviours they deem appropriate.
Entities like blackrok are bulying them into submission. More often than not it’s blakrok or another equivalent that has majority shares, and then the whole ESG point value system etc is designed to destroy your company if you don’t play ball. It’s a racket essentially. And it’s intent on social engineering the public at all costs. Cuz in case you’re living under a rock, conservative or even Godly values are under seige. From politics all the way to the classroom. Blackrok is essentially the buisness arm of the WEF. Replacing national flags with rainbow ones, taking away national pride, open bordrs and bombarding your kids in school with left ranbow ideology and taking your rights as a parent away. What we are seeing in the gaming industry is infecting other genres and industries as well, even cards and board games are not immune. What we are seeing in the entertainment industry as a whole is a microcosm of something much larger and sinister at play, that stems from the very elites and power players we keep seeing get exposed by things like didy or Epstn. Tentacles that lead to the same head.
Gamers: I want a game with a hot girl in it Consultants: our games don't have hot girls in it Gamers: why not Consultants: because gamers don't like hot girls Gamer: then give me a escapist fantasy Consultants: our games aren't escapist fantasies Gamer: why not? Consultants: because gamers don't like them they want realistic worlds with realistic characters Game company: but this gamer just asked for an escapist fantasy with hot girl characters Consultants: trust us we know what they really want
That's nonsense we have plenty of designers openly admit to making woke designs to "own the chuds" the existence of social media and their own participation in it makes their lies transparent.
I think the good designers will probably have to leave the compny to let it collapse. It's the natural order of things to teach the higher ups that customer loyalty is how you survive in a free market capitalist society. They need to take a page out of Elon Musk and just hire people that add value and not expand so much. When he fired those twitter mods that were just doing nothing he saved a lot of money. The communists don't seem to understand that a more expensive product with bloat is not preferable to a lean and mean game company that has smaller team of higher skilled people. If those commies want to get a job they got to work their way up the ladder by making small projects first, find the audience that likes their content and slowly build from there. That is how the respect meter is built up. You don't just get respected for existing. You earn respect over time. Will these people ever listen to us? No. They think they can just make gold like Larian Studios and not have to worry what the fans have to say. Baldur's Gate 3 is NOT an anomaly. It's how games used to be made: the developers would ask the fans what they think, they would then offer feedback and then the company would refine the product to perfection. On release of the game the public plays it and is blown away by the quality because the makers of the game had passion and knew what they wanted to create and gave it 100%. Most of the people at the triple A companies are just there to get a paycheck only and see it as a daily grind. Not a passion. So that is the core issue here. Are the communists really there to add value or to lecture us about their world view? If it's the latter they are a liability since most gamers are smarter and have higher IQ than them. We don't need them lecuturing us since we think they are wrong about how the world works. So it's like a fundamentalist christian trying to preach to an athiest who doesn't even believe in God. If that athiest thinks the christian is harassing him he will call the cops eventually to get the guy off his property because he isn't interested in the message and has heard it already. That's what it feels like dealing with the woke mob. They want to preach their message but nobody agrees with their world view which is basically "give me a job because I exist. F those guys that had to earn the position". Vast majority of people do not want to live in a world run by dictators who think people are entitled to have something for existing. So what do we do? We should let the companies fail and the workers should quit those companies. (just work outside the system) If you want to put your name on a game that sucks all it will do is hurt your reputation!
I agree there are artist that just want to earn a paycheck and just give the boss exactly the best worst design they ask for but if you speak out for the woke you are a target. And the people who are speaking out load are usually among those who have powers to decide.
@@UToobUsername01 Problem is a lot of these companies started out small, with highly skilled people, but once a company reaches a certain size they're required to hire an HR dept, and then the infection begins.
Well yah that’s the point of his video the designers that don’t agree can’t do so visibly or they will lose their livelihood with no hope of any company in the west being better
It might just be me, but if the Triple A Industry died out, i wouldn't shed a Tear. i'll be more than happy to play games made by Small Studios that look like PS1 or 2 games, than pay $70 to be FUCKING LECTURED AT FOR 50+ HOURS!!!
@@federicodeangeli8103 never played em, bg3 is woke so not playing that..and i thought the kingdom come was lame while watching my buddy play that..just not my type of game.
@@Remi-bo7tn nah, the good devs got labeled with SA claims. There are several stories in YT alone where whamen completely make up a story; like this one guy gets SA claimed after taking one of his female underlings to a room privately at work to have discussion about behavior.
From what I have seen, the individual devs that are getting cooked online are bringing it on themselves by lashing out at gamers first and calling them names. I have no sympathy for them.
I think it's because a lot of these atrocious designs are ultimately "design by committee". "Artists" who go on Twitter to brag about their slop are largely just egotists who overvalue their contribution.
World War 2. You can also bet that after work these people go out on the streets in masks and call for the destruction and death of the same old certain group.
As a player, when the devs come out and bash us, yet want us to respect them, i find i comical. Respect is earned, not given. And when you bash the people you want to buy your game, you loose any amount of respect you had.
exactly. And there are no colleague devs rising up to defend the gamers when one of them insults us. They don't need to say that they agree with us, just show us some respect
Dev's closing statement of "it needs to be a BRIDGE" just sounds like a dogwhistle knowing that the new term that's going to be pushed industry wide is BRIDGE instead of DEI. If devs want pity and support from the masses, they can take a stand and quit or get fired like the original devs at Infinity Ward when they shifted to make their own studio Respawn. I feel no pity or sympathy for a stranger significantly more well off than I am, crying about how hard their job is or the politics and drama associated around their work place.
Staying quiet when something you don't agree with is happening means your part of the problem. Just like the Germans who didn't speak up about killing Jews.
When CDPR released that video about how they were going whole hog on DEI, I knew the company was cooked, and lost interest in any future releases from them.
@@BOTG_Adventures Considering the hub-bub they went through for standing up to the wokies wanting more diverse races in 1403's Bohemia, taking into account the quality of the game itself, and considering they now have folks from the glory days of CDPR working on 2, I have very high hopes for that game!
@@SoSezTheDude the old devs of CDPR who were part of CP2077 and Witcher series made their own studio called Rebel Wolves. Rebel Wolves is a new studio, but our team has years of experience working on some of the most critically acclaimed video games of all times. We co-created titles such as “The Witcher 3”, “Cyberpunk 2077”, and many others. We decided to create our own studio and run it on our own terms. Chief among them: the team comes first, always. Happy people make great games - games players want and deserve. Yes, it’s as simple as that. We’re industry veterans, but we’re hungry for more. We want to create amazing virtual worlds, filled to the brim with powerful emotions and unique experiences. Most of all, we want to share our boundless passion for video games. We know what players love, because we’re players ourselves. We’re currently working on our own AAA IP, story-driven RPG saga for PCs and next-gen consoles. We’re humbled by the interest and will share more as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience - it’ll be worth it!
I have zero sympathy for Developers. We've seen plenty of photos of what the Ubisoft development team looks like and they are the exact type of people that would support all of the terrible decisions that Ubisoft makes
I was going to say, in another video he showed the dev team being the ones making problems and not working thus having external workers come in to boost development, then in this video it's giving the opposite message that 'oh its the people at the top'. The people at the top are always make dumb moves in some of these big companies, but doesn't make the devs blameless outright.
@@DonForceFeedbackremember, this isn't his opinion, it's the opinion of the dev. If you can tell by his tone, he's still a leftist, he still supports diversity, but he just thinks they're doing it wrong. we've heard this spiel thousands of times and it's pretty obvious this Dev is like an older Democrat voter that doesn't understand that what he's supporting is continuing the rot . He doesn't understand that so-called toxic boys club is due to them hiring nothing but far left-wing feminist activists Junior developers who can barely hold a single line of cold and who interpret someone saying hi to them as a form of harassment. There was a decision in the middle management to hire these incapable quota feeling devs who are mostly female that's causing this stupid so-called boys club narrative to form. This de is still blue pilled, constantly blaming the higher-ups instead of looking at people around him and going some of these people do not deserve to be here with me.
Yea, this whole “the devs are the good guys” narrative needs to stop. They are in these companies and actively pushing this nonsense too. They are not innocent
I was thinking this too. I’ve literally seen too many photos of devs with purple hair and nose rings with portfolios stressing diversity. I have a really hard time believing that dev.
Sorry if I sound cynical but, I lost empathy and compassion a long time ago for the industry. The devs are part of the problem, like it or not they continue with the status quo just droning along and licking the boots of those above them. Just because you make a game doesn’t mean you deserve my respect or time, karma comes when they least expect it. The games industry must heal and it starts with the hole, not singling out targets
No, you are being fair, they aren’t entitled to our money or respect and I’m tired of being put down when I call this stuff out, and I’m just going to say it I don’t care if they lose their jobs; if they truly cared about the gaming industry they would work on projects they were legitimately passionate about instead of just complaining about it online.
Those who don't like it but stay quiet should move on to other jobs. If all the devs that wanted nothing to do with this stuff quit or switched companies, then there would be no one left to take on these AAA projects and the whole AAA sphere would collapse in on itself. Move, even if it's a pay cut, and go to a small company that doesn't have this problem. And never, ever sell out. Do what Mihoyo did when Tencent offered a huge buy-out deal - reject and keep doing your own thing. When they try to buy you out, they just want to exploit you and take away everything you built. You'll be better off rejecting them.
"We are victims too, we don't want woke stuff but if we speak up we get fired and blacklisted" Im a brazilian who has a wife and three kids to feed. I used to work as a teacher, but I got fired because I refused to teach wokefied history. I changed career and now I work with private security, earning a bit less than I did before but my principles are intact. My wife supported me. Why am I saying that? Because I don't buy this guy's excuses. He's a first worlder who works a very comfortable job compared to most people, and he claims to be a slave who is forced to do woke stuff. I call it BS. If you and your colleagues had any principles you would not accept that. I have no sympathy whatsoever for devs who work for AAA western studios. Nothing changes the fact that your job is to ruin our beloved franchises. If you were truly committed to the thruth, you wouldn't fear going against them openly, or you would go indie. Anything but compromising to wokism. "Muh life is hard" F off. You work with creating games. Your livelihoods isn't really on the line. I actually have a bullet scar because of my job. Grow some balls.
How did you get that from the video? If some talented dev makes 20 variants for a SINGLE character in that Concord game, and the woke weirdos at the top choose the most "representative" looking one, how is it the dev's fault? Will they refuse to create different kinds of characters and lose their job because you would be a NotSee otherwise? Stop acting like the twitter freaks and implying fascism at every random thing.
@@AtramentousMindframe-ju5fx because they were silent after that. they were silent when their coworkers were fired for being white. they kept filling their pockets with money by working for racist and sexist corporate regime. i have no sympathy for these developers, they are as much complicit for dei slop as their managers. and people like you be: "leave racist multi billion corporations alone T_T"
I’m glad you talked about bad localization. I’m shocked at how so few people are aware of all the malicious changes being made to their (otherwise great) eastern games. Even Japanese players who are aware of the problem have proposed industry-wide blacklists for these localizers.
It's all coming from the Government & International Organizations. Anyone can check what they have to do to get the contracts & grants & subsidies & tax cuts & low tariffs... You can't export your game if the government says so. A lot of this is in the Trade Agreements & International Governance (UN & WHO & ...).
Oh I hope they do it. It happens in anime too. Any time these types get to insert themselves in between the customer and the company, they will twist and pervert everything they can to get it reflect THEIR beliefs.
The fact this insider is STILL arguing that DEI and ‘diversity’ is a positive just shows they’re still in denial and part of the liberal bubble that inevitably leads to the problems we’re having. You do not get better products by having more varied superficial characteristics. It wouldn’t matter if a game about heterosexual male eskimos was made by an all female, lesbian, Somalian dev team, if they were good enough at their job and not too narcissistic to empathise and imagine other people’s lives. He’s stepped right up to the border of truly understanding the problem, but just isn’t willing to take that last step into admitting that the entire modern western obsession with identity and inclusivity is the underlying problem.
Weak minded liberals who see the problem but still toe the line and the "message" will always be deluded and will give in to the tiniest amount of peer pressure. They're the same ones who thought Bye-den was okay until the media told them it was okay to admit that he has problems...
"it wasn't me it was the other guy" ffs. If they submit 20 designs why submit ugly ones they can pick? "not me the other guy" oldest excuse in history. Woke and rotton top to bottom, we see them with their green hair and nose rings, Ubisoft staff pic was 100% woke with Kim Belair hiding at the back. But is was not them "it was the other guy"
To be the devils advocate, that was actually an older photo and likely did not have all developers present, just that select group. Iirc, it was from like 2015-2016 but I could very well be wrong.
if they ask you to make a "body positive woman of african decent" and you make someone who looks like bayonetta you are bad at your job. do you think the company asks them to make 'woman with gun"and they make 7 that look like super models 8 that are fat and 5 that look like dudes? they made 20 versions of an ugly character because they were following the instructions they were given. do you people also yell at the minimum wage cashier because store suddenly increased the price of milk without any warning? i expect this type of point of view from middle aged women that people call karens cause they spent most of their adult as housewife or something similar and don't have much worklife experience. so what the hell are you fellas doing? like i am genuinely curious what sort of life you all have lead that makes you have this sort of pov.
Hey man, if it takes China to make good games again, I am all here for it. Our western studios are already lost to this woke shit. Wukong, Stellar Blade and the upcoming Phantom Blade Zero are a indicator that good games will only be produced by the eastern asian companies anymore.
So begins the age of devs passing the buck. If you're too cowardly to stand up for your principles, you don't deserve sympathy. The ones that kept their mouth shut are the main reason games are trash today.
Problem is the devs don't know the language it's been localized in. Gotta wonder whatever happened to Tom at XSEED. Based AF and great at localizing, he was a strong bulwark against this nonsense until he got forced out.
Remember when devs who disagreed would quit and start their own studios or indie projects? If they don't agree, but stay silent and do the shill work, then they are complicit. Prove they want my money, instead of letting some idiot make it sound like they are saying that they don't want my money.
Do you realize how much more money that takes now? Or how much larger the gaming industry is meaning loads more competition? Think dude, it's not nearly that simple, just because McDonald's employees make a shitty hamburger because the manager tells them to you're not gonna just go start a burger stand. These game devs might want to own a house one day, or a car, or be able to eat.
So the point is proven. If you are working for a woke company, you are complicit in its actions by default. And don't give me the poor hungry dev bs. They earn atleast six figure salaries.
Is there still no punishment for false sexual assault claims? PS: I have ZERO problem with “boys club” type culture. Why can’t men have their own spaces?
Men never want to join in female spaces (unless they are ghey), but females always want to join male spaces. It's been this way since we all were kids on the playground at recess.
Although I agree that it sucks when the hardworking devs get fired because of poor management decisions, I’m going to have to disagree with that being the case with Ubisoft. That company is rotten all the way through. They’ve replaced the overwhelming majority of their staff with people who spend 16 hours a day being a Twitter activist. Every time one of them comes out and talks about their customers, their entire post just drips with derision and scorn. I’m 100% certain that the devs who actually want to make good games are a very small minority left in that company
Sorry, I'm not buying this story. We saw too many times how the SUPPOSED developers loathe us, and how they gatekept studios to make it a haven for those hateful individuals. More likely this Serge Hascoët is going through a John Lasseter situation where they manufactured accusations to push out a competent boss they envied.
No mercy for developers. No mercy for publishers. No mercy for investors. No mercy for the industry. I'm out of Fs to give, and now it's time to pay the piper.
_This year was another example of what happens when companies like Ubislop prioritize their own personal ideologies over giving the customer’s what they want. They done this to themselves._
I always, always, always doubt sexual harassment allegations these days. You hire in a bunch of DEI women who get angered over saying "hello" to them and suddenly have a bunch of men being accused of harassment. Big shock. Also, almost all of the world's inventions and creations have come out of "boy's clubs."
this is exactly what I was thinking. Hiring those people is like opening the door to the wolf. And boys clubs are what those studios should be with no woman around. I am sure that their games would be absolute masterpieces. Let women work on mobile games
I was thinking the same thing. Just a bunch of allegations and no proof. But their eco chambers inside ubisoft was aiming for top positions. So, they accuse some staff of sexual harassment to take his position.
Finally someone says it, look I’m not saying woman don’t/can’t enjoy Videogames but let’s be honest it’s mostly men/boys who play them; it’s literally the reason the saying sex sells exists.
Yea I’m not at all trusting of the public allegations here. “Believe all women” - really? Without proof? And the allegation alone ruins men, even if way down the line they aren’t charged. This stuff pisses me off. Activists leveraged power and removed talent from all sorts of industry. That’s how we’re here. I just hope all those true talents land at a new studio. I’ll buy their games.
The only real thing I'll miss from Ubi is Assassin's Creed but even then if a decent enough company picks up the IP they might be able to recapture the magic the old games had.
I understand completely how the devs feel. That is - most of them. I work as Sr. Linux sysadmin in a large company. Sure, I do have a decent amount of experience, but I am far from the most senior one in the company. I've seen first hand how even people with 15+ years of experience are unable to do the things they know are right, just because it requires the approval of some out of touch manager, who has his own agenda and no clue on the technical issues at hand. It is frustrating and I hate it. But in all honesty, there is nothing I or anyone in a similar technical position as me can do about it. The issue is due to the managers and it trickles down from the incompetent execs. That being said, there are some devs who are full blown activists and would openly attack games better than their own. Most of you could probably recall the backlash against Elden Ring and how the devs from Ubislop and the Horizon (Nicocado with bow) series have severely opposed the lack of markers, text and yellow paint, because it clashes with their fundamental understanding of game design. And the past part is, that Elden Ring outsold every single game those devs have worked on and likely will work on. Many such cases.
@@andreypavlov5187 that's not what twit means little buddy. Balls? It doesn't take balls to leave a crap job. Nor does it take balls to puff your chest. Know what does? Staying at a terrible job because you have a family that depends on you and that paycheck you bring in. It's a lot easier to leave when you have nothing to lose. You think people want to work 12+ hours a day doing back breaking labour? No, they don't. But they do because even if they hate it they have the grit to stick it out.
@@andreypavlov5187 that's not what twit means little buddy. Balls? There's nothing brave about puffing out your chest or leaving a terrible job. You know what does? Staying at a place you hate because you have a family to care for. You think people want to work 12+ hours a day doing back breaking labour for basically no pay? No, they have responsibilities. They just can't throw away a lucrative job just because. And if you can do that... Guess what bud? You didn't need that job to begin with.
21:11 I have never seen an individual dev being harassed that didn't first lash out on social media. People will shit on the writing and designs, then a dev will come out and call them chuds or nazi's.
It's their livelihood. If you know you're gonna get fired by speaking up you wouldn't do anything either. Well either way, if they get fired or not, the end result is the same....they will end up in another company.
cowards? You would stick your neck to get fired would you? Losing a job which pays you almost 12000$/month? Everyone of you is gangsta on the Internet, but real life is no game.
@@AninoireThat's how evil ideology like communism continued to be perpetrated back then. All you need is a few developers with a spine willing to come out together and speak out. once one dev speaks out, it usually creates a chain effect that allows other devs to speak up before it becomes too much of a wave that even large AAA companies cannot ignore. The fact of the matter is the game industry is full of cowards, even Hollywood is starting to warm up to supporting Trump, we need more people like that in the gaming industry.
I quite literally don't care about the game industry anymore. I haven't bought a new title in quite some time and only play old games now. If we ever see an end to all this woke DEI shit then I'll be happy to jump back on board but sadly that's not going to happen any time soon. Keep up the good work Endymion.
Find a way to get involved, dude. If you do nothing, nothing happens. At the very least, throw a like on every one of the videos like these and make sure you vote in the upcoming election.
@@DandelionMonk They aren’t entitled to our money; also really politics ok go make an hour long video about capitalism or something man, we’re just here to be entertained that’s what Videogames we’re about before all this.
@@Guyfield20XX and the less you do about it, the worse it will get. The only way to fight it is to get involved. You don't like it? Do something about it. If you don't, you got no right to complain when it's nothing BUT politics.
Regarding Sweet Baby and other consulting firms, I often hear "They only consult, they don't make final decisions on games". While this is true on a surface level, it's more complicated than that. When these recommendations come back from consulting companies, they're passed down the chain at the developer. So if a Manager or DE&I or Sensitivity Reader receives the recommendation from Sweet Baby, they're likely going to approve the change and down the chain it goes. So in effect, it's pretty much decided right then and there the "woke" changes are implemented.
they are giving advises like the mob does to businesses when they advise you to pay up for protection. No one is forcing you, but there are consequences
Nobody is attacking developers. Out of the 500 who worked on a flop, 490 didn't come out on a crusade against the evil gamers who didn't buy the game. The 10 that did got laughed off the internet and apparently that's harassment for them. Will the 490 lose their job because of their bosses bad decisions? Yes. But that's not our problem, just as it's not theirs if any of us loses his job because our boss was stupid. Nobody is entitled to success because "they tried real hard".
the problem is that none of the 490 even dared to reasonably push back, even by just saying "on my side I don't hate gamers, and since they are our customers maybe their concerns should be taken seriously"
Yup, but we’re the villains because we don’t want to buy their slop anymore, than they just cry about it online how they lost there job instead of just I don’t know looking for a new one that actually appreciates them; but no keep complaining we’re all at fault right.
Normally, I would agree with you. Normally I wouldnt tell you to google what the dev teams of games such as Concord and Shadows look like. I wouldnt tell you to check their twitter bios.
At this point I do not feel bad for any dev still working with any of these woke companies. Work Indy or find another career. You take that paycheck from these companies but want none of the blame? Yeah, no.
Exactly, if they really want to be a part of the industry just go Indie, they just want the pay check with none of the difficulties. Remember when people had pride in what they worked on these aren’t Devs they are losers who are too weak-willed to put in the work.
Given how harmless “sexual harassment” always ends up being when the details are revealed, I think a game dev studio should form with all the devs accused of it and create the best damn studio ever. All the best writers and designers always seem to be accused of nonsense by woke companies.
Usually it’s just a way to get rid of someone they don’t like to put their own person there. We all know this. I just wish all the awesome devs can just band together and set up their own studio to start making games like they use to, they will become huge in no time.
They pushed out all the talented employees over the years as the industry went from creating new and interesting experiences to trend chasing and maxing profits and appeasing their investors. The amount of people that had been working at these places for over two decades all leaving once we saw the massive change in the gaming landscape basically left no one with talent working there anymore, and that let these political agenda driven ideologues free reign to jump in and just screw everything up. Once they got in and DEI started, they began hiring based on political nepotism, filling up roles with only those who parrot the same messed up ideology they do. They treat it as a cool kids club and to piggy-back ride off the company's success. We know that they actively want the industry to burn, so if companies like Ubisoft and Blizzard go under, they'll just move on to something else and ruin that too. People say we're "winning", but I really don't feel like we are. These people are too ingrained in the industry to simply remove, especially when they're being protected. If these companies were only interested in profits, they would see how DEI is not good for business, so the only conclusion I can make is that the people running the show are far-left as well and are willing to lose it all for their political ideology. It's basically a cancer that has spread too far to be removed and treated now. At this stage there's no salvaging Ubisoft or other companies like them. All we can do is watch. We simply don't have the means to go into these companies and remove the problems at its source. It sucks because we're constantly losing at every turn. Though I don't think it's hopeless nor should we give up. Indie games are thriving and people passionate about games aren't held back by being part of a big corporate entity. We could also see these companies burning down as an opportunity to go in and take back control. From the ashes of the old we can potentially revive them and their old IPs.
You always have a choice, why should that place them in exemption of fault? If they all would leave together and make their own game, working on the side on small other projects. A lot of adult crying, but not enough adult to have actual solutions. Crazy world we be living in.
I’m tired of being told to feel bad for the hard working developers who supposedly don’t wanna make DEI crap. Yet they’re all on social media with their gay flags, palenatine flags and trans flags telling about trump being a Nazi. Sorry if you’re actually not an idiot like that then go work for workhorse, saber or devolver. I’m tier of hearing about feel bad for the innocent devs
Now I don't work in the development space but I am fairly knowledgeable about it's inner workiings and knew that this is basically how it operated. But still, it does raise several questions about the industry at large such as: why are the devs so zealous about defending the slop they didn't like how it was going while also attacking anyone who criticizes it knowing they 'felt the same way'? Why is the media with no know ties to these slop games defending those games so fiercely? Why was it the when sought after games like stellar blade, black myth and Warhammer come out they're attacked by other devs for not conforming to their ideological practices and failing alongside them? And why is it in the last few years did these companies suddenly decide to abandon development processes that has always worked for this new one that almost ensures failure? Call me cynical but I think that person you spoke to is either completely discounting all these other factors, unaware of a broader situation or trying steer people's view of the situation to seek sympathy. "Painting the roses red" if you will.
Yup, but no we’re apparently the problem, look it’s sad that they are going to lose their job; but it’s a job that actively doesn’t want them there. Anyone that still works there are people solely in for the paycheck, if they truly cared about the industry they would go indie and actually put in the hard work to create something people would actually enjoy.
Ubisoft and other game companies that pushed the message allowed the infestation that is DEI to run rampant. Now they must live with the side effects. If they go bankrupt, it'll be the workers who'll suffer.
Because the company is afraid of their own people. Everyone in the chain knows the mentally ill employees can end their career with false accusations. Toxic positivity on the surface, culture of fear below
"On no, the gaming industry is likely going to collapse? How will I ever be able to spend $60-$100 for low quality, boring, pointless and broken games that I don't enjoy?" I WANT the AAA gaming industry to collapse. Games won't go away but a few major companies collapsing may be enough to get the industry to change. If it doesn't - I don't care. I gave up on their games years ago. Indy gaming has so much more to offer.
I swear all these Devs know how to do is complain when things don’t go their way. We don’t owe you our money it’s earned through blood sweat tears and hard work for a project you legitimately care about, something these Devs have clearly forgotten about.
Companies have become too big for their own good. Bloated beyond imagination to the point that the consumer's needs are not represented in their board rooms, nor are they important to these executives, and it shows.
As someone who works in the game industry as a tools developer, and also a game engine consultant, I have been developing my own indie games and the first will be out soon. I am fine with the big companies going under, it gives space for the indies to move in. My first game is simple and fun and inexpensive, and my follow-up game coming out late 2025 is a lot of fun to develop and create what I want in a game.
The difference betwren larian and lets say ubisoft is Larian wanted to have a good game but there is alot of woke stuff in BG3 and i thought we wanted to get rid of woke stuff?
senior devs leave cd project because they made good money and want to be their own bosses, but there might be some issue with new generation of developers (or workers in poland in general) have some kind of assertiveness and resistance against toxic, unrealistic demands or incompetency,and laziness, as other side would put it
I don't care about cowards who claim they were just following orders, they should be organizing with other like-minded people and create or join a proper studio. There isn't an excuse for staying with these morally bankrupt companies.
I'm 52 and been gaming as long as I can remember. It's never been this bad. I have never been so board with it. It's just sad really. For the first time I'm not even interested in upgrading my pc. Everything is about money and the lack of passion is showing big time.
Imagine having values SO BAD that the only way they can be competitive is if everyone knows their career is over if they challenge them and still think you are the one "on the right side of history"...
Regardless of who is at fault at these companies, I will keep voting with my wallet - any LGBT degeneracy, feminism, DEI, censorship, etc. and I am not paying for the product.
@@ColorMeHoppy Thx - yep, honestly I think more and more people feel the way we do, there are just a good percentage that are afraid to take a stand against it - they may be afraid of being called names, etc. We need to encourage these folks to know they are not alone and it's okay to stand up and push back with the truth.
1:56 Loved Child of Light. It’s amazing that only 10 years ago Ubisoft could make games like this that were as creative and artistic as any independent game, and now only 10 years later they’re a hollow shell and a dinosaur of a company.
It's sad how the problems described in the video sounds exactly like what happens in my friend's studio even though it's small. The leadership/investors for whatever reason sees no problem with the woke agenda and over diversification, and the decision making, like what is described in the character design goes through so many hands, the end result is no longer what the game designer first envisioned - and we end up with doo-doo games and movies like we do lately.
I’m not excusing with the Surge guy possibly did, but it would make sense that he being the quality director would stop a lot of woke people from doing more work stuff so they falsify accusations to get him out so they can do more
2:57 That argument is irrelevant to the fantasy. "If I had the power" is pure wishful thinking, you can't logic it away. People are allowed to have imaginations.
It's a shame, from a Pole perspective, that CDPR turned out like this. I thought it wasn't going to happen and CDPR would remain Polish, but nah. It's no wonder most of developers who worked on The Witcher and Cyberpunk left the studio and created their own company called Rebel Wolves. CDPR is not Polish anymore. It's USA managed studio who sold out to Western Capital with all it's downfalls unfortunately. :( Next Witcher might be woke - but I still trust that Sapkowski and Witcher fans won't allow for this to happen.
@@yunusgokcen174 they didn't. Most of those companies are based in Europe, sure, but look at where their HQ are. Most of them are in California, USA. It's USA mindset and pushing agenda that's killing studios in Europe. Guerilla Games are still fine in my book. Maybe because I live in NL nowadays and I know how Dutch people are. I still wait for Horizon III with hopes they don't butch it up.
@@info0 Fani Wiedzmina nie mają tutaj nic do gadania a Sapkowski ma gdzieś co zrobią z grą tak długo jak mu za to zapłacą. Czas pokaże ale nie ma co płakać za durnymi decyzjami deweloperów nawet jeśli zniszczą następną część Wiedzmina, spójrz co zrobili z serialem ,nie ma co się oszukiwać i pogodzić się że nic z tego nie będzie. Czy to przykre z perspektywy fanów wcześniejszych części gier? Oczywiście, ale jak to bywa z firmami które produkują kiepskie produkty, prędzej czy później przestają istnieć i należy się tym przejmować bo w ich miejsce wejdą takie które będą robić lepsze produkty.
Well, to be blunt - nobody forces these people to work for studios like Ubisoft if they are not happy with how their work is/isn't approved and changed by some higher-ups and when they know they work for a DEI-infested company... They have the choice to work for other companies, but they decide to stay and work for companies like Ubisoft. So from that perspective I don't feel sorry or sad for them at all if they lose their jobs. Their choice - their consequences.
'It isn't artists making horrible designs". As a customer idk what I'm suppose to do with that. I feel bad for them, but I'm also not going to purchase a product that I'm not interested in because the artists of said company might lose their job if I don't.
I'm not going to get gaslit to feel sorry for those poor devs at Ubisoft or elsewhere. I'm sw dev myself (not gaming more like bios/embedded) so I know how it is working for bad company and how hard it is to take chance and quit to start doing something else. They are in for the salary as we all are.
Your speaking the truth, if they really cared about gaming as an art they would create something that resonates with people instead of there wallets, success isn’t made by shifting the blame if they are so stressed about there work culture than they should just leave man-up and get a new job/project; and if they don’t they were never part of the industry to being with.
Serge isn't guilty. You and your source said yourselves, if they speak out they get blacklisted. This is just another form of blacklisting, a way to blacklist people who otherwise could have just gone on to make a new studio. If we already know one side is 100% dishonest, then why pretend they are honest? Take sides and use common sense.
If the work is bad, the company deserves to fail. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is. Blaming the executives doesn’t make the games better or mitigate financial losses.
As someone who went to school for Animation and took a Character & Prop Design class, this is all very true. Doesn't matter how big the studio is, you will be expected redraw and redesign nearly every single aspect of a character several times until it meets the vision of the directors in charge. It's the art director who sits down and draws all over your drawings in red ink to outline everything the the other departments want you to change. You will also be expected to make entire sheets of different designs, down to every little detail, like the shape of the character or object, down to even the color pallete. It's not an easy job and it gets brutal sometimes. Leaves very little room to do anything of your own. It's very often for the original vision for a character to be completely unrecognizable by the end.
Idk we are going up against someone who has close to 20 trillion dollars but that being Said those 20 trillion dollars are being divesified across multiple things and not just gaming...
Politics has always been part of gaming. People need to realise that Politics =/= pushing agenda. Good implemented politics in games, actually make you think of your actions. Fallout, BioShock, Deus Ex, Metal Gear Solid, Mass Effect, Spec Ops: The Line, every RTS game out there from Age of Empires to Civilization series, ALL have political stuff in them. I am against pushing agendas in games though. That's completely different balls game. Those can go eff themselves.
@@info0 u mean politics as more or less inspired by political systems from the real world?? like take Star wars and the republic for example if the greeks never invented democracy star wars probably wouldnt exist atleast not like it does now. well ofc its gonna be inspired by real world things political or not thats how things are created take lord of the rings tolkien was inspired by catholicism cause he was a christian and other things connected to Europes history and culture and that is one of the greatest if not the greatest fantasy universes ever made and its completely different from political messaging about womens rights or trans or diversity or in general making men into an evil thing.
@@BlueFire015 that's partially what I meant. There are papers on how games and politics were always intertwined. You're right though, modern politics and mostly pushing of certain agendas can go f**k themselves.They want us to think in certain way and not for ourselves and that's a no-go in my book.
9:13 Actually, It's one of the easiest problems to solve, although its a baby and bathwater solution... AI translation (its already being used, and probably will take over most of translation work soon enough).
Yeah but the reason those devs are leaving CD is because it's already a sinking ship. Mise well go to Warhorse where their work will be appreciated. We knew Witcher was doomed as soon as CD released that DEI video awhile back.
actually the guys who made CP2077 and Witcher 3 created their own studio Rebel Wolves. Rebel Wolves is a new studio, but our team has years of experience working on some of the most critically acclaimed video games of all times. We co-created titles such as “The Witcher 3”, “Cyberpunk 2077”, and many others. We decided to create our own studio and run it on our own terms. Chief among them: the team comes first, always. Happy people make great games - games players want and deserve. Yes, it’s as simple as that. We’re industry veterans, but we’re hungry for more. We want to create amazing virtual worlds, filled to the brim with powerful emotions and unique experiences. Most of all, we want to share our boundless passion for video games. We know what players love, because we’re players ourselves. We’re currently working on our own AAA IP, story-driven RPG saga for PCs and next-gen consoles. We’re humbled by the interest and will share more as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience - it’ll be worth it!
I just don't understand why the West can't make diversity like Japan does. Anybody that has consumed a lot of Anime, VNs, or JRPGs, know that there's been a lot of diversity in their media. Femboys, masculin women, gay, lesbian, weird, flamboyant, ect, have been in the vast majority of Japanese content for as long as I've been alive. But everyone is cool with that because these characters have real personalities and the games are actually diverse and not just, let's be real, "black". Also you don't see Asian hate in Asian games (maybe in historical contexts tho). That's my biggest concern with the West. A lot of people think White people are taking the blunt of things, but behind the scenes, these DEI crazy people are pretty much anti everything Asian. I've seen the racism in the injustice of their games and anime, but also irl with having asian friends. I just hope I don't see the day that companies like ATLUS get overtaken by Western influence. ATLUS has always had diversity. Especially in their Persona games. But they do it in their own way, and honestly, imo, the right way.
Sure, some devs don't deserve the heat, bit the ones yapping on Twitter against gamers do. And gamer are not responsible of devs losing their jobs, their bosses and their decisions are.
@@Nexus3386-l8g Yeah some other DEI Shill is trying to rebrand it with that in Microsoft I believe. Typical case of pushing the agenda being more important than making the game.
@@Nexus3386-l8g Yeah Microsoft is trying to implent/rebrand it as that because they know how much its been getting shredded and making games worse. They're reaching for anything for literally any little thing to push an agenda over making a good, genuine, and most importantly fun game.
I can confirm software spending is out of control for these AAA companies. Microsoft licensing alone for E3-P2 licenses runs roughly about 500K for 1000 people. And to think that's just for the Office 365 suite. There's no telling what other products these developers are using that enterprise licensing is so extreme. At my last job Splunk was costing us around $2,000,000 a year then an additional $50k a month for data retention.
This Gaming Industry cycle has been very much been led by publishers, as opposed to dev teams. The collapse this time isn't from a developer stand point. I predict this: Major publishers will collapse, but not all, just the majority. I'm not worried, though, as I've been in this hobby for over 4 decades at this point, and like every collapse before, both major and minor, the Indies ALWAYS fill the void. The Indie dev teams are thriving more today than ever before.
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Congrats on the channel growth dude. I am going to bet that all woke/DEI/Feminazi Xbox/Halo dev team is going to gender/race swap Master Chief in their next title.
Does your source know about the Soul Reaver 1&2 remasters?
I hope Atlus can fix the dubs for metaphor but right now i plan to buy it when the phsy version is on sale and the only game i am looking to buy is the soul reaver remasterds
The idea that localization is "hard to deal with" is stupid. All the company has to do is teach someone to speak English or hire a native english speaker and teach them Jap and then you can get rid of the entire overseas localization industry......
its literally the easiest thing to fix of all these problems.
at this point, im starting to think there are people planted inside these companies to destroy it so it gets sold to chinese companies, there is no way so many people are so dumb
When it comes to consulting, I always think of this:
“If you’re not part of the solution, there’s money to be made in prolonging the problem.”
Yup
Imma steal that if you don't mind🤔
This makes way too much sense in the gaming industry
Exactly 💯
Standard for politics as well.
Imagine paying for consulting firms instead of simply asking your fans what they would like to see
@@Skateandcreate9 because they are intent on pushing a message, not giving us what we want. It's what their pay masters believe we NEED to see. We need to be educated and coerced into behaviours they deem appropriate.
Entities like blackrok are bulying them into submission. More often than not it’s blakrok or another equivalent that has majority shares, and then the whole ESG point value system etc is designed to destroy your company if you don’t play ball.
It’s a racket essentially.
And it’s intent on social engineering the public at all costs. Cuz in case you’re living under a rock, conservative or even Godly values are under seige.
From politics all the way to the classroom. Blackrok is essentially the buisness arm of the WEF. Replacing national flags with rainbow ones, taking away national pride, open bordrs and bombarding your kids in school with left ranbow ideology and taking your rights as a parent away.
What we are seeing in the gaming industry is infecting other genres and industries as well, even cards and board games are not immune.
What we are seeing in the entertainment industry as a whole is a microcosm of something much larger and sinister at play, that stems from the very elites and power players we keep seeing get exposed by things like didy or Epstn. Tentacles that lead to the same head.
Gamers: I want a game with a hot girl in it
Consultants: our games don't have hot girls in it
Gamers: why not
Consultants: because gamers don't like hot girls
Gamer: then give me a escapist fantasy
Consultants: our games aren't escapist fantasies
Gamer: why not?
Consultants: because gamers don't like them they want realistic worlds with realistic characters
Game company: but this gamer just asked for an escapist fantasy with hot girl characters
Consultants: trust us we know what they really want
That's nonsense we have plenty of designers openly admit to making woke designs to "own the chuds" the existence of social media and their own participation in it makes their lies transparent.
I would expect there to be a mix of quality legacy artists, along with the DEI hires that are slowly but surely replacing them like pod people.
I think the good designers will probably have to leave the compny to let it collapse. It's the natural order of things to teach the higher ups that customer loyalty is how you survive in a free market capitalist society. They need to take a page out of Elon Musk and just hire people that add value and not expand so much. When he fired those twitter mods that were just doing nothing he saved a lot of money.
The communists don't seem to understand that a more expensive product with bloat is not preferable to a lean and mean game company that has smaller team of higher skilled people. If those commies want to get a job they got to work their way up the ladder by making small projects first, find the audience that likes their content and slowly build from there. That is how the respect meter is built up. You don't just get respected for existing. You earn respect over time. Will these people ever listen to us? No. They think they can just make gold like Larian Studios and not have to worry what the fans have to say. Baldur's Gate 3 is NOT an anomaly. It's how games used to be made: the developers would ask the fans what they think, they would then offer feedback and then the company would refine the product to perfection. On release of the game the public plays it and is blown away by the quality because the makers of the game had passion and knew what they wanted to create and gave it 100%.
Most of the people at the triple A companies are just there to get a paycheck only and see it as a daily grind. Not a passion. So that is the core issue here. Are the communists really there to add value or to lecture us about their world view?
If it's the latter they are a liability since most gamers are smarter and have higher IQ than them. We don't need them lecuturing us since we think they are wrong about how the world works. So it's like a fundamentalist christian trying to preach to an athiest who doesn't even believe in God. If that athiest thinks the christian is harassing him he will call the cops eventually to get the guy off his property because he isn't interested in the message and has heard it already.
That's what it feels like dealing with the woke mob. They want to preach their message but nobody agrees with their world view which is basically "give me a job because I exist. F those guys that had to earn the position". Vast majority of people do not want to live in a world run by dictators who think people are entitled to have something for existing.
So what do we do? We should let the companies fail and the workers should quit those companies. (just work outside the system) If you want to put your name on a game that sucks all it will do is hurt your reputation!
I agree there are artist that just want to earn a paycheck and just give the boss exactly the best worst design they ask for but if you speak out for the woke you are a target. And the people who are speaking out load are usually among those who have powers to decide.
@@UToobUsername01 Problem is a lot of these companies started out small, with highly skilled people, but once a company reaches a certain size they're required to hire an HR dept, and then the infection begins.
Well yah that’s the point of his video the designers that don’t agree can’t do so visibly or they will lose their livelihood with no hope of any company in the west being better
It might just be me, but if the Triple A Industry died out, i wouldn't shed a Tear. i'll be more than happy to play games made by Small Studios that look like PS1 or 2 games, than pay $70 to be FUCKING LECTURED AT FOR 50+ HOURS!!!
lol, right
I don't know where you get the idea that games from small studios have to look like PS1 or PS2 games. Indie games look better than ever.
Plus nowadays some indie games are better than AAA like BG3 and kingdome come are technically indie
@@federicodeangeli8103 never played em, bg3 is woke so not playing that..and i thought the kingdom come was lame while watching my buddy play that..just not my type of game.
@@void_gazer bg3 not so woke as you think. Just dont bang male companions and you never see any woke bs.
The only thing I don't agree is that the incompetence is all about the executives and not the 'grunts' below. No no... it was probably both.
yea. these people should simply quit or they are co-signing it to get that paycheck
and the good devs if there are any should band together and go indie
@@Remi-bo7tn nah, the good devs got labeled with SA claims. There are several stories in YT alone where whamen completely make up a story; like this one guy gets SA claimed after taking one of his female underlings to a room privately at work to have discussion about behavior.
@@FullchanAnon Which is exactly why women should be gatekept out of the industry. Sorry not sorry
This
From what I have seen, the individual devs that are getting cooked online are bringing it on themselves by lashing out at gamers first and calling them names. I have no sympathy for them.
'It isn't artists making horrible designs' then why do we keep seeing artists online bragging about the horrible designs they made for a game?
I think it's because a lot of these atrocious designs are ultimately "design by committee". "Artists" who go on Twitter to brag about their slop are largely just egotists who overvalue their contribution.
@@humrH2360 And the DEI infested companys see this and hire them to push their moronic views and beliefs onto gamers
Because the ones who know they should be ashamed just don't say anything.
Wrong. The artists are the ones braghing, not the committees.
Exactly, only a industry wide purge of all will do now.
"I was just doing my job"
Now where have i heard that before.
World War 2. You can also bet that after work these people go out on the streets in masks and call for the destruction and death of the same old certain group.
As a player, when the devs come out and bash us, yet want us to respect them, i find i comical. Respect is earned, not given. And when you bash the people you want to buy your game, you loose any amount of respect you had.
exactly. And there are no colleague devs rising up to defend the gamers when one of them insults us. They don't need to say that they agree with us, just show us some respect
Yeah and as a modder I know how games work so
Dev's closing statement of "it needs to be a BRIDGE" just sounds like a dogwhistle knowing that the new term that's going to be pushed industry wide is BRIDGE instead of DEI.
If devs want pity and support from the masses, they can take a stand and quit or get fired like the original devs at Infinity Ward when they shifted to make their own studio Respawn. I feel no pity or sympathy for a stranger significantly more well off than I am, crying about how hard their job is or the politics and drama associated around their work place.
Yea the dev is one of them, he just wants it to be his version of DEI, its all the same bs.
Staying quiet when something you don't agree with is happening means your part of the problem. Just like the Germans who didn't speak up about killing Jews.
When CDPR released that video about how they were going whole hog on DEI, I knew the company was cooked, and lost interest in any future releases from them.
Same, I've enjoyed cp77 2.0 but also realised it probably is their last good game.
Only Kingdome come deliverance 2 can save us, they refuse to go woke or take the knee. 100% preordered.
@@BOTG_Adventures Considering the hub-bub they went through for standing up to the wokies wanting more diverse races in 1403's Bohemia, taking into account the quality of the game itself, and considering they now have folks from the glory days of CDPR working on 2, I have very high hopes for that game!
@@SoSezTheDude the old devs of CDPR who were part of CP2077 and Witcher series made their own studio called Rebel Wolves.
Rebel Wolves is a new studio, but our team has years of experience working on some of the most critically acclaimed video games of all times. We co-created titles such as “The Witcher 3”, “Cyberpunk 2077”, and many others.
We decided to create our own studio and run it on our own terms. Chief among them: the team comes first, always. Happy people make great games - games players want and deserve. Yes, it’s as simple as that.
We’re industry veterans, but we’re hungry for more. We want to create amazing virtual worlds, filled to the brim with powerful emotions and unique experiences. Most of all, we want to share our boundless passion for video games. We know what players love, because we’re players ourselves.
We’re currently working on our own AAA IP, story-driven RPG saga for PCs and next-gen consoles. We’re humbled by the interest and will share more as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience - it’ll be worth it!
@@SoSezTheDude KCD2 is only game im excited about
“Have more compassion for devs.” Compassion is one thing but I’m not spending money on a sub par “woke” game out of compassion.
I have zero sympathy for Developers. We've seen plenty of photos of what the Ubisoft development team looks like and they are the exact type of people that would support all of the terrible decisions that Ubisoft makes
I was going to say, in another video he showed the dev team being the ones making problems and not working thus having external workers come in to boost development, then in this video it's giving the opposite message that 'oh its the people at the top'.
The people at the top are always make dumb moves in some of these big companies, but doesn't make the devs blameless outright.
They attack the players as well.
@@DonForceFeedbackremember, this isn't his opinion, it's the opinion of the dev. If you can tell by his tone, he's still a leftist, he still supports diversity, but he just thinks they're doing it wrong. we've heard this spiel thousands of times and it's pretty obvious this Dev is like an older Democrat voter that doesn't understand that what he's supporting is continuing the rot .
He doesn't understand that so-called toxic boys club is due to them hiring nothing but far left-wing feminist activists Junior developers who can barely hold a single line of cold and who interpret someone saying hi to them as a form of harassment. There was a decision in the middle management to hire these incapable quota feeling devs who are mostly female that's causing this stupid so-called boys club narrative to form.
This de is still blue pilled, constantly blaming the higher-ups instead of looking at people around him and going some of these people do not deserve to be here with me.
Yea, this whole “the devs are the good guys” narrative needs to stop. They are in these companies and actively pushing this nonsense too. They are not innocent
I was thinking this too. I’ve literally seen too many photos of devs with purple hair and nose rings with portfolios stressing diversity.
I have a really hard time believing that dev.
Sorry if I sound cynical but, I lost empathy and compassion a long time ago for the industry. The devs are part of the problem, like it or not they continue with the status quo just droning along and licking the boots of those above them. Just because you make a game doesn’t mean you deserve my respect or time, karma comes when they least expect it. The games industry must heal and it starts with the hole, not singling out targets
No, you are being fair, they aren’t entitled to our money or respect and I’m tired of being put down when I call this stuff out, and I’m just going to say it I don’t care if they lose their jobs; if they truly cared about the gaming industry they would work on projects they were legitimately passionate about instead of just complaining about it online.
Those who don't like it but stay quiet should move on to other jobs. If all the devs that wanted nothing to do with this stuff quit or switched companies, then there would be no one left to take on these AAA projects and the whole AAA sphere would collapse in on itself. Move, even if it's a pay cut, and go to a small company that doesn't have this problem.
And never, ever sell out. Do what Mihoyo did when Tencent offered a huge buy-out deal - reject and keep doing your own thing. When they try to buy you out, they just want to exploit you and take away everything you built. You'll be better off rejecting them.
"We are victims too, we don't want woke stuff but if we speak up we get fired and blacklisted"
Im a brazilian who has a wife and three kids to feed. I used to work as a teacher, but I got fired because I refused to teach wokefied history.
I changed career and now I work with private security, earning a bit less than I did before but my principles are intact. My wife supported me.
Why am I saying that? Because I don't buy this guy's excuses. He's a first worlder who works a very comfortable job compared to most people, and he claims to be a slave who is forced to do woke stuff.
I call it BS. If you and your colleagues had any principles you would not accept that.
I have no sympathy whatsoever for devs who work for AAA western studios. Nothing changes the fact that your job is to ruin our beloved franchises.
If you were truly committed to the thruth, you wouldn't fear going against them openly, or you would go indie. Anything but compromising to wokism.
"Muh life is hard"
F off. You work with creating games. Your livelihoods isn't really on the line. I actually have a bullet scar because of my job.
Grow some balls.
Well said! 👍
100% what pussies. I'd have walked out at the first sign.
I can't like this comment any harder if I tried, bruh
Tell them!
Plus if all devs feeling this way spoke up we might not be where we are now .😊😢
I was a soldier and I was refused re-enlistment to continue my education becasue my opinions were not the right ones. Now I work as a sandblaster.
so sick of the guilt trip. if you're part of a failed/woke project, you are guilty by association. the hammer must fall.
The hammer will never fall unless we bring it down hard
Not a charity. Not buying the game to save some artists.
"i was just following orders," - modern game developers.
How did you get that from the video?
If some talented dev makes 20 variants for a SINGLE character in that Concord game, and the woke weirdos at the top choose the most "representative" looking one, how is it the dev's fault?
Will they refuse to create different kinds of characters and lose their job because you would be a NotSee otherwise?
Stop acting like the twitter freaks and implying fascism at every random thing.
@@AtramentousMindframe-ju5fx because they were silent after that. they were silent when their coworkers were fired for being white. they kept filling their pockets with money by working for racist and sexist corporate regime. i have no sympathy for these developers, they are as much complicit for dei slop as their managers. and people like you be: "leave racist multi billion corporations alone T_T"
There was no need for exposing. We already knew Ubisofts agenda by just looking at their games
It's needed so people cannot be gaslit into thinking they are being hysterical and imagining things.
consumer memory is evidently very short, a steady flow of informative videos like these help educate and remind customers old and new
Many people will deny it to your face. So yes there is a need.
@@thetikijam This is true. Sad, but true. Look at ActMan. That dude is CLEARLY lying on purpose.
Facts Italians building tanks and speaking English in the 1400s is woke
At this point I just hope for Ubisoft to declare bankruptcy and become a decent warning for other AAA game companies who despise their customers.
this will not be a warning. They will just loot the licenses and move on doing the same shit until they die themselves
It happened to volition yet no one seemed to learn from them going bankrupt for a 2nd time.
I’m glad you talked about bad localization. I’m shocked at how so few people are aware of all the malicious changes being made to their (otherwise great) eastern games.
Even Japanese players who are aware of the problem have proposed industry-wide blacklists for these localizers.
I read recently that some japanese studios are training AI for localization.
It's all coming from the Government & International Organizations.
Anyone can check what they have to do to get the contracts & grants & subsidies & tax cuts & low tariffs...
You can't export your game if the government says so.
A lot of this is in the Trade Agreements & International Governance (UN & WHO & ...).
They should just blacklist all Western localizers instead.
@@Remi-bo7tnThat could work for subs but theyll still need an editor to clen it up.
Oh I hope they do it. It happens in anime too. Any time these types get to insert themselves in between the customer and the company, they will twist and pervert everything they can to get it reflect THEIR beliefs.
The fact this insider is STILL arguing that DEI and ‘diversity’ is a positive just shows they’re still in denial and part of the liberal bubble that inevitably leads to the problems we’re having.
You do not get better products by having more varied superficial characteristics. It wouldn’t matter if a game about heterosexual male eskimos was made by an all female, lesbian, Somalian dev team, if they were good enough at their job and not too narcissistic to empathise and imagine other people’s lives.
He’s stepped right up to the border of truly understanding the problem, but just isn’t willing to take that last step into admitting that the entire modern western obsession with identity and inclusivity is the underlying problem.
Weak minded liberals who see the problem but still toe the line and the "message" will always be deluded and will give in to the tiniest amount of peer pressure. They're the same ones who thought Bye-den was okay until the media told them it was okay to admit that he has problems...
"it wasn't me it was the other guy" ffs. If they submit 20 designs why submit ugly ones they can pick? "not me the other guy" oldest excuse in history. Woke and rotton top to bottom, we see them with their green hair and nose rings, Ubisoft staff pic was 100% woke with Kim Belair hiding at the back. But is was not them "it was the other guy"
Exactly. Don't believe a word of it. They are all responsible. Anyone who says they are forced to work there is just lying.
That's the dumbest excuse ever. Back in art school, we were forced to make 50 character designs in a week.
To be the devils advocate, that was actually an older photo and likely did not have all developers present, just that select group. Iirc, it was from like 2015-2016 but I could very well be wrong.
It's not that they deliver ugly, they are told to make it ugly.
if they ask you to make a "body positive woman of african decent" and you make someone who looks like bayonetta you are bad at your job. do you think the company asks them to make 'woman with gun"and they make 7 that look like super models 8 that are fat and 5 that look like dudes? they made 20 versions of an ugly character because they were following the instructions they were given.
do you people also yell at the minimum wage cashier because store suddenly increased the price of milk without any warning? i expect this type of point of view from middle aged women that people call karens cause they spent most of their adult as housewife or something similar and don't have much worklife experience. so what the hell are you fellas doing? like i am genuinely curious what sort of life you all have lead that makes you have this sort of pov.
"How am I evil? I did what they told me to!"
I have no sympathy for these devs. None.
:3..
Ubisoft: *Gamers should get used to not owning games*
Gamers: *Ubisoft should get used to not owning a company*
Ah yes, the classic Uno Reverse card
@@Hadfield15 Ironically the uno video game is published by ubisoft 🙃
Hey man, if it takes China to make good games again, I am all here for it. Our western studios are already lost to this woke shit. Wukong, Stellar Blade and the upcoming Phantom Blade Zero are a indicator that good games will only be produced by the eastern asian companies anymore.
I mean i got pretty comfortable with not owning their games. More comfortable than they would like, it seems.
@@oceyhodude, who do you think is pushing woke on the western world?
So begins the age of devs passing the buck. If you're too cowardly to stand up for your principles, you don't deserve sympathy. The ones that kept their mouth shut are the main reason games are trash today.
So, basically, "toxic gamers" were right
Pretty much the same story in all industries at the moment.
🌎 🧑🚀🔫🧑🏽🚀
@@conservingcommonsense4980Exactly. 👍
Anytime you're called toxic, it's because you're right and they're mad at what you noticed.
This was never in question by actual human beings.
Localisation problems SHOULD be easy to fix. The translated script is reviewed by the devs and rejected if its full of activism.
Problem is the devs don't know the language it's been localized in.
Gotta wonder whatever happened to Tom at XSEED. Based AF and great at localizing, he was a strong bulwark against this nonsense until he got forced out.
These companies are mentally insane for firing devs that have different world views. God help them
God already left these studios a long time ago
EXCELLENT WORK. ENDYMIONTV 😊😊😊😊😊
Incidentally that in itself is the opposite of ‘diversity’
@@Starfield-Guyit's pretty good
"Who's pulling the strings, who's calls the shots?"
The Devs should know "i was just following orders" doesn't work as a defense
"evil can not create, only destroy"
*Small hat goblins
so by the amount of times he says localizers, the word means jack sh** lol
Yup
So destruction of Ubisoft is an evil act?
Describing the jews I see.
So the Nerumberg excuse of just following orders. Nah not buying it and no mercy. Oblivion is the only solution that will satisfy my anger.
Remember when devs who disagreed would quit and start their own studios or indie projects? If they don't agree, but stay silent and do the shill work, then they are complicit.
Prove they want my money, instead of letting some idiot make it sound like they are saying that they don't want my money.
Do you realize how much more money that takes now? Or how much larger the gaming industry is meaning loads more competition? Think dude, it's not nearly that simple, just because McDonald's employees make a shitty hamburger because the manager tells them to you're not gonna just go start a burger stand. These game devs might want to own a house one day, or a car, or be able to eat.
Sir have you seen the economy no one has the money for that. Plus look up the term golden handcuffs which is what I think ties quite a few hands
So the point is proven. If you are working for a woke company, you are complicit in its actions by default.
And don't give me the poor hungry dev bs. They earn atleast six figure salaries.
Is there still no punishment for false sexual assault claims?
PS: I have ZERO problem with “boys club” type culture. Why can’t men have their own spaces?
Exactly, remember when games weren’t made for everyone and people loved them because they gave people unique and awe-inspiring experiences.
Men never want to join in female spaces (unless they are ghey), but females always want to join male spaces. It's been this way since we all were kids on the playground at recess.
Although I agree that it sucks when the hardworking devs get fired because of poor management decisions, I’m going to have to disagree with that being the case with Ubisoft. That company is rotten all the way through. They’ve replaced the overwhelming majority of their staff with people who spend 16 hours a day being a Twitter activist. Every time one of them comes out and talks about their customers, their entire post just drips with derision and scorn. I’m 100% certain that the devs who actually want to make good games are a very small minority left in that company
Sorry, I'm not buying this story. We saw too many times how the SUPPOSED developers loathe us, and how they gatekept studios to make it a haven for those hateful individuals.
More likely this Serge Hascoët is going through a John Lasseter situation where they manufactured accusations to push out a competent boss they envied.
'Agreed. This is too fishy. Seems like a "I too understand your struggles and can relate!" type of cheap PR move.'
@@oompalumpus699 Like the Demon screaming "MOMMY!" to Frieren.
No mercy for developers. No mercy for publishers. No mercy for investors.
No mercy for the industry. I'm out of Fs to give, and now it's time to pay the piper.
Easy tough guy, no one's telling you to buy them
@@FoxesInferno they literally are saying to give their trash products a chance and buy them
@@adaptivegamer9905 If you refuse to play a good game because it had an ideology you disagree with you're not a gamer anymore, you're an activist.
@@closetdwight2450 if the game it's pushing an ideology, then it's not a game anymore, it's propaganda.
@@closetdwight2450the fact is that, those games sucks asses too, they pursuit the inclusivity over making a fun game, they buried themselves.
_This year was another example of what happens when companies like Ubislop prioritize their own personal ideologies over giving the customer’s what they want. They done this to themselves._
I always, always, always doubt sexual harassment allegations these days. You hire in a bunch of DEI women who get angered over saying "hello" to them and suddenly have a bunch of men being accused of harassment. Big shock.
Also, almost all of the world's inventions and creations have come out of "boy's clubs."
this is exactly what I was thinking. Hiring those people is like opening the door to the wolf. And boys clubs are what those studios should be with no woman around. I am sure that their games would be absolute masterpieces. Let women work on mobile games
Just what I was thinking during his whole speal about it.
I was thinking the same thing. Just a bunch of allegations and no proof. But their eco chambers inside ubisoft was aiming for top positions. So, they accuse some staff of sexual harassment to take his position.
Finally someone says it, look I’m not saying woman don’t/can’t enjoy Videogames but let’s be honest it’s mostly men/boys who play them; it’s literally the reason the saying sex sells exists.
Yea I’m not at all trusting of the public allegations here.
“Believe all women” - really? Without proof?
And the allegation alone ruins men, even if way down the line they aren’t charged.
This stuff pisses me off. Activists leveraged power and removed talent from all sorts of industry. That’s how we’re here.
I just hope all those true talents land at a new studio. I’ll buy their games.
CD Project Red is cooked, with thier woke push in the Witcher.
At this point I don't think people would care if these companies were to just shut down permanently.
I know I wouldn't. The developers that made these studios the giants they are have long since been dismissed or left.
The only real thing I'll miss from Ubi is Assassin's Creed but even then if a decent enough company picks up the IP they might be able to recapture the magic the old games had.
Gaming will die by 2030.
I wouldn’t mourn any Western studio at this point.
I think there would be street parties for years 🎉
I understand completely how the devs feel. That is - most of them. I work as Sr. Linux sysadmin in a large company. Sure, I do have a decent amount of experience, but I am far from the most senior one in the company. I've seen first hand how even people with 15+ years of experience are unable to do the things they know are right, just because it requires the approval of some out of touch manager, who has his own agenda and no clue on the technical issues at hand. It is frustrating and I hate it. But in all honesty, there is nothing I or anyone in a similar technical position as me can do about it. The issue is due to the managers and it trickles down from the incompetent execs.
That being said, there are some devs who are full blown activists and would openly attack games better than their own. Most of you could probably recall the backlash against Elden Ring and how the devs from Ubislop and the Horizon (Nicocado with bow) series have severely opposed the lack of markers, text and yellow paint, because it clashes with their fundamental understanding of game design. And the past part is, that Elden Ring outsold every single game those devs have worked on and likely will work on. Many such cases.
You still followed orders.
You too take responsibility.
"but, but, but..." there is no but.
Sounds like you'd be one of the twits spitting on Vietnam vets as they came home. Same logic. Same sentiment.
You'd fall in line, big boy.
@@ihaznothumbs I dont have a twitter.
But I have the balls to admit I have done what I have done
@@andreypavlov5187 that's not what twit means little buddy.
Balls? It doesn't take balls to leave a crap job. Nor does it take balls to puff your chest.
Know what does? Staying at a terrible job because you have a family that depends on you and that paycheck you bring in.
It's a lot easier to leave when you have nothing to lose. You think people want to work 12+ hours a day doing back breaking labour? No, they don't. But they do because even if they hate it they have the grit to stick it out.
@@andreypavlov5187 that's not what twit means little buddy.
Balls? There's nothing brave about puffing out your chest or leaving a terrible job.
You know what does? Staying at a place you hate because you have a family to care for. You think people want to work 12+ hours a day doing back breaking labour for basically no pay? No, they have responsibilities. They just can't throw away a lucrative job just because. And if you can do that... Guess what bud? You didn't need that job to begin with.
21:11 I have never seen an individual dev being harassed that didn't first lash out on social media. People will shit on the writing and designs, then a dev will come out and call them chuds or nazi's.
It would be easier to have sympathy for devs if they weren't such cowards.
True. They're spineless.
It's their livelihood. If you know you're gonna get fired by speaking up you wouldn't do anything either. Well either way, if they get fired or not, the end result is the same....they will end up in another company.
cowards? You would stick your neck to get fired would you? Losing a job which pays you almost 12000$/month?
Everyone of you is gangsta on the Internet, but real life is no game.
@@AninoireThat's how evil ideology like communism continued to be perpetrated back then. All you need is a few developers with a spine willing to come out together and speak out. once one dev speaks out, it usually creates a chain effect that allows other devs to speak up before it becomes too much of a wave that even large AAA companies cannot ignore.
The fact of the matter is the game industry is full of cowards, even Hollywood is starting to warm up to supporting Trump, we need more people like that in the gaming industry.
If they don’t speak up their whole industry will crash and they’ll all lose their jobs anyways.
21:48 you realise you just said Bridge? What has Kirsche been talking about for the last 2 years? Bridge is what they are changing DEI and ESG to
I quite literally don't care about the game industry anymore. I haven't bought a new title in quite some time and only play old games now. If we ever see an end to all this woke DEI shit then I'll be happy to jump back on board but sadly that's not going to happen any time soon. Keep up the good work Endymion.
Find a way to get involved, dude. If you do nothing, nothing happens. At the very least, throw a like on every one of the videos like these and make sure you vote in the upcoming election.
Only new stuff I have is indy. Everything else is old stuff on sale. At least half off, min.
@@DandelionMonk They aren’t entitled to our money; also really politics ok go make an hour long video about capitalism or something man, we’re just here to be entertained that’s what Videogames we’re about before all this.
@@Guyfield20XX and the less you do about it, the worse it will get. The only way to fight it is to get involved. You don't like it? Do something about it. If you don't, you got no right to complain when it's nothing BUT politics.
Still plenty of good games coming out, chill out 😂
Regarding Sweet Baby and other consulting firms, I often hear "They only consult, they don't make final decisions on games". While this is true on a surface level, it's more complicated than that. When these recommendations come back from consulting companies, they're passed down the chain at the developer. So if a Manager or DE&I or Sensitivity Reader receives the recommendation from Sweet Baby, they're likely going to approve the change and down the chain it goes. So in effect, it's pretty much decided right then and there the "woke" changes are implemented.
they are giving advises like the mob does to businesses when they advise you to pay up for protection. No one is forcing you, but there are consequences
Nobody is attacking developers. Out of the 500 who worked on a flop, 490 didn't come out on a crusade against the evil gamers who didn't buy the game. The 10 that did got laughed off the internet and apparently that's harassment for them. Will the 490 lose their job because of their bosses bad decisions? Yes. But that's not our problem, just as it's not theirs if any of us loses his job because our boss was stupid. Nobody is entitled to success because "they tried real hard".
the problem is that none of the 490 even dared to reasonably push back, even by just saying "on my side I don't hate gamers, and since they are our customers maybe their concerns should be taken seriously"
Yup, but we’re the villains because we don’t want to buy their slop anymore, than they just cry about it online how they lost there job instead of just I don’t know looking for a new one that actually appreciates them; but no keep complaining we’re all at fault right.
@@pepinlebref7585 Not my problem.
Normally, I would agree with you.
Normally I wouldnt tell you to google what the dev teams of games such as Concord and Shadows look like.
I wouldnt tell you to check their twitter bios.
At this point I do not feel bad for any dev still working with any of these woke companies. Work Indy or find another career. You take that paycheck from these companies but want none of the blame? Yeah, no.
Exactly, if they really want to be a part of the industry just go Indie, they just want the pay check with none of the difficulties. Remember when people had pride in what they worked on these aren’t Devs they are losers who are too weak-willed to put in the work.
FYi Serge isn't guilty, he bas been more likely thrown away under the bus, he is counter attacking Ubisoft in French court.
I'd say so many people who made quality content being ousted for alleged sexual misconducts is highly suspicious.
'Kinda like how political dissidents are suddenly brought in by the FBI or the CIA for s3x crimes.'
Given how harmless “sexual harassment” always ends up being when the details are revealed, I think a game dev studio should form with all the devs accused of it and create the best damn studio ever. All the best writers and designers always seem to be accused of nonsense by woke companies.
Usually it’s just a way to get rid of someone they don’t like to put their own person there. We all know this. I just wish all the awesome devs can just band together and set up their own studio to start making games like they use to, they will become huge in no time.
My comment in a nutshell!😊 👍🏻
They pushed out all the talented employees over the years as the industry went from creating new and interesting experiences to trend chasing and maxing profits and appeasing their investors. The amount of people that had been working at these places for over two decades all leaving once we saw the massive change in the gaming landscape basically left no one with talent working there anymore, and that let these political agenda driven ideologues free reign to jump in and just screw everything up.
Once they got in and DEI started, they began hiring based on political nepotism, filling up roles with only those who parrot the same messed up ideology they do. They treat it as a cool kids club and to piggy-back ride off the company's success. We know that they actively want the industry to burn, so if companies like Ubisoft and Blizzard go under, they'll just move on to something else and ruin that too.
People say we're "winning", but I really don't feel like we are. These people are too ingrained in the industry to simply remove, especially when they're being protected. If these companies were only interested in profits, they would see how DEI is not good for business, so the only conclusion I can make is that the people running the show are far-left as well and are willing to lose it all for their political ideology.
It's basically a cancer that has spread too far to be removed and treated now. At this stage there's no salvaging Ubisoft or other companies like them. All we can do is watch. We simply don't have the means to go into these companies and remove the problems at its source. It sucks because we're constantly losing at every turn.
Though I don't think it's hopeless nor should we give up. Indie games are thriving and people passionate about games aren't held back by being part of a big corporate entity. We could also see these companies burning down as an opportunity to go in and take back control. From the ashes of the old we can potentially revive them and their old IPs.
You always have a choice, why should that place them in exemption of fault? If they all would leave together and make their own game, working on the side on small other projects. A lot of adult crying, but not enough adult to have actual solutions. Crazy world we be living in.
Speaking the true brother, I feel like they are all just man-children who would use any excuse instead of taking accountability.
Devs: It's not me, it's the execs.
Me: Sucks to be you.
I’m tired of being told to feel bad for the hard working developers who supposedly don’t wanna make DEI crap. Yet they’re all on social media with their gay flags, palenatine flags and trans flags telling about trump being a Nazi. Sorry if you’re actually not an idiot like that then go work for workhorse, saber or devolver. I’m tier of hearing about feel bad for the innocent devs
Now I don't work in the development space but I am fairly knowledgeable about it's inner workiings and knew that this is basically how it operated. But still, it does raise several questions about the industry at large such as: why are the devs so zealous about defending the slop they didn't like how it was going while also attacking anyone who criticizes it knowing they 'felt the same way'? Why is the media with no know ties to these slop games defending those games so fiercely? Why was it the when sought after games like stellar blade, black myth and Warhammer come out they're attacked by other devs for not conforming to their ideological practices and failing alongside them? And why is it in the last few years did these companies suddenly decide to abandon development processes that has always worked for this new one that almost ensures failure? Call me cynical but I think that person you spoke to is either completely discounting all these other factors, unaware of a broader situation or trying steer people's view of the situation to seek sympathy. "Painting the roses red" if you will.
Yup, but no we’re apparently the problem, look it’s sad that they are going to lose their job; but it’s a job that actively doesn’t want them there. Anyone that still works there are people solely in for the paycheck, if they truly cared about the industry they would go indie and actually put in the hard work to create something people would actually enjoy.
Ubisoft and other game companies that pushed the message allowed the infestation that is DEI to run rampant.
Now they must live with the side effects.
If they go bankrupt, it'll be the workers who'll suffer.
the spineless workers
No such thing as workers in these companies anymore, the people at the bottom are propagandists too.
If the company has to hire contractors to do your work for you, why do you have a job?
Because the company is afraid of their own people. Everyone in the chain knows the mentally ill employees can end their career with false accusations. Toxic positivity on the surface, culture of fear below
"On no, the gaming industry is likely going to collapse? How will I ever be able to spend $60-$100 for low quality, boring, pointless and broken games that I don't enjoy?"
I WANT the AAA gaming industry to collapse. Games won't go away but a few major companies collapsing may be enough to get the industry to change. If it doesn't - I don't care.
I gave up on their games years ago. Indy gaming has so much more to offer.
I swear all these Devs know how to do is complain when things don’t go their way. We don’t owe you our money it’s earned through blood sweat tears and hard work for a project you legitimately care about, something these Devs have clearly forgotten about.
Companies have become too big for their own good. Bloated beyond imagination to the point that the consumer's needs are not represented in their board rooms, nor are they important to these executives, and it shows.
If a company isn’t hiring on merit and is instead hiring off diversity regardless of merit then said diversity can only be seen as a net negative.
As someone who works in the game industry as a tools developer, and also a game engine consultant, I have been developing my own indie games and the first will be out soon. I am fine with the big companies going under, it gives space for the indies to move in. My first game is simple and fun and inexpensive, and my follow-up game coming out late 2025 is a lot of fun to develop and create what I want in a game.
The more these devs keep destroying themselves, the more they’re proving Larian and Saber right
Even Larian has consultants (HIT REG LCC), so we can't trust anyone
The difference betwren larian and lets say ubisoft is Larian wanted to have a good game but there is alot of woke stuff in BG3 and i thought we wanted to get rid of woke stuff?
Larian complained about players making too many white male fighters in the early access. Even the straights are gay in BG3
Difference is, in BG3, you have to go looking for it.
@@BlueFire015 all the gay stuff in BG3 was so cringe I stopped playing it
senior devs leave cd project because they made good money and want to be their own bosses, but there might be some issue with new generation of developers (or workers in poland in general) have some kind of assertiveness and resistance against toxic, unrealistic demands or incompetency,and laziness, as other side would put it
Keep it going, Endymion! The news about the gaming industry is almost as entertaining as the games!
Thank you 🤘🏻🔥
It's more entertaining than Ubislop games!
@@EndymionTvyeah dive deep and expose everything, the problem will heal quicker under the sunlight.
Keep up the good work @@EndymionTv
People these days really enjoy negative news about the game industry 💀 and too many content creator that always make this kind of content.
I don't care about cowards who claim they were just following orders, they should be organizing with other like-minded people and create or join a proper studio. There isn't an excuse for staying with these morally bankrupt companies.
I'm 52 and been gaming as long as I can remember. It's never been this bad. I have never been so board with it. It's just sad really. For the first time I'm not even interested in upgrading my pc. Everything is about money and the lack of passion is showing big time.
Imagine having values SO BAD that the only way they can be competitive is if everyone knows their career is over if they challenge them and still think you are the one "on the right side of history"...
Regardless of who is at fault at these companies, I will keep voting with my wallet - any LGBT degeneracy, feminism, DEI, censorship, etc. and I am not paying for the product.
You and me both!
Me neither.😊
Unfortunately lots of people just buy that shit anyway , nullifying our efforts.😢
I will even not play for free
Love this energy. I hate how weak so many other gamers are. They will buy anything and make so many excuses for people that fcuking hate them
@@ColorMeHoppy Thx - yep, honestly I think more and more people feel the way we do, there are just a good percentage that are afraid to take a stand against it - they may be afraid of being called names, etc. We need to encourage these folks to know they are not alone and it's okay to stand up and push back with the truth.
1:56 Loved Child of Light. It’s amazing that only 10 years ago Ubisoft could make games like this that were as creative and artistic as any independent game, and now only 10 years later they’re a hollow shell and a dinosaur of a company.
So basically it’s a good chance your favorite dev is full of diversity hires if they recently switched to Unreal from inhouse engine.
Yeah this is quite telling.
It's sad how the problems described in the video sounds exactly like what happens in my friend's studio even though it's small.
The leadership/investors for whatever reason sees no problem with the woke agenda and over diversification, and the decision making, like what is described in the character design goes through so many hands, the end result is no longer what the game designer first envisioned - and we end up with doo-doo games and movies like we do lately.
I’m not excusing with the Surge guy possibly did, but it would make sense that he being the quality director would stop a lot of woke people from doing more work stuff so they falsify accusations to get him out so they can do more
That might as well be the case.. they removed all the old heads in position of power to put their own people.
I have the same feeling
That is literally what the MeTwoo movement was supposed to do. It was a Trojan Horse to replace the old guard with activists.
2:57 That argument is irrelevant to the fantasy. "If I had the power" is pure wishful thinking, you can't logic it away. People are allowed to have imaginations.
It's a shame, from a Pole perspective, that CDPR turned out like this. I thought it wasn't going to happen and CDPR would remain Polish, but nah. It's no wonder most of developers who worked on The Witcher and Cyberpunk left the studio and created their own company called Rebel Wolves.
CDPR is not Polish anymore. It's USA managed studio who sold out to Western Capital with all it's downfalls unfortunately. :(
Next Witcher might be woke - but I still trust that Sapkowski and Witcher fans won't allow for this to happen.
When did the EU become so woke? CDPR, Ubisoft, Rocksteady, guerrila games. All European, and all failing.
@@yunusgokcen174 they didn't. Most of those companies are based in Europe, sure, but look at where their HQ are. Most of them are in California, USA.
It's USA mindset and pushing agenda that's killing studios in Europe. Guerilla Games are still fine in my book. Maybe because I live in NL nowadays and I know how Dutch people are. I still wait for Horizon III with hopes they don't butch it up.
@@info0 These California liberals really be bankrupting European game companies.
@@info0 Fani Wiedzmina nie mają tutaj nic do gadania a Sapkowski ma gdzieś co zrobią z grą tak długo jak mu za to zapłacą. Czas pokaże ale nie ma co płakać za durnymi decyzjami deweloperów nawet jeśli zniszczą następną część Wiedzmina, spójrz co zrobili z serialem ,nie ma co się oszukiwać i pogodzić się że nic z tego nie będzie. Czy to przykre z perspektywy fanów wcześniejszych części gier? Oczywiście, ale jak to bywa z firmami które produkują kiepskie produkty, prędzej czy później przestają istnieć i należy się tym przejmować bo w ich miejsce wejdą takie które będą robić lepsze produkty.
@@yunusgokcen174 the EU is the reenactment of USSR with a woke twist. EU leaders are 100% as woke as the California ones
A whole segment about "handsy devs" and I can't help but wonder what woman got her career furthered by slanderimg her superior.
Well, to be blunt - nobody forces these people to work for studios like Ubisoft if they are not happy with how their work is/isn't approved and changed by some higher-ups and when they know they work for a DEI-infested company... They have the choice to work for other companies, but they decide to stay and work for companies like Ubisoft. So from that perspective I don't feel sorry or sad for them at all if they lose their jobs. Their choice - their consequences.
'It isn't artists making horrible designs". As a customer idk what I'm suppose to do with that. I feel bad for them, but I'm also not going to purchase a product that I'm not interested in because the artists of said company might lose their job if I don't.
I'm not going to get gaslit to feel sorry for those poor devs at Ubisoft or elsewhere. I'm sw dev myself (not gaming more like bios/embedded) so I know how it is working for bad company and how hard it is to take chance and quit to start doing something else. They are in for the salary as we all are.
Your speaking the truth, if they really cared about gaming as an art they would create something that resonates with people instead of there wallets, success isn’t made by shifting the blame if they are so stressed about there work culture than they should just leave man-up and get a new job/project; and if they don’t they were never part of the industry to being with.
Serge isn't guilty. You and your source said yourselves, if they speak out they get blacklisted. This is just another form of blacklisting, a way to blacklist people who otherwise could have just gone on to make a new studio.
If we already know one side is 100% dishonest, then why pretend they are honest? Take sides and use common sense.
If the work is bad, the company deserves to fail. It doesn’t matter whose fault it is. Blaming the executives doesn’t make the games better or mitigate financial losses.
As someone who went to school for Animation and took a Character & Prop Design class, this is all very true. Doesn't matter how big the studio is, you will be expected redraw and redesign nearly every single aspect of a character several times until it meets the vision of the directors in charge. It's the art director who sits down and draws all over your drawings in red ink to outline everything the the other departments want you to change. You will also be expected to make entire sheets of different designs, down to every little detail, like the shape of the character or object, down to even the color pallete. It's not an easy job and it gets brutal sometimes. Leaves very little room to do anything of your own. It's very often for the original vision for a character to be completely unrecognizable by the end.
Hopefully by 2030, we won't be having discussion like this and we won't see anymore political messaging agenda and see games being made in good faith.
Idk we are going up against someone who has close to 20 trillion dollars but that being Said those 20 trillion dollars are being divesified across multiple things and not just gaming...
Politics has always been part of gaming. People need to realise that Politics =/= pushing agenda.
Good implemented politics in games, actually make you think of your actions. Fallout, BioShock, Deus Ex, Metal Gear Solid, Mass Effect, Spec Ops: The Line, every RTS game out there from Age of Empires to Civilization series, ALL have political stuff in them.
I am against pushing agendas in games though. That's completely different balls game. Those can go eff themselves.
@@info0 u mean politics as more or less inspired by political systems from the real world?? like take Star wars and the republic for example if the greeks never invented democracy star wars probably wouldnt exist atleast not like it does now. well ofc its gonna be inspired by real world things political or not thats how things are created take lord of the rings tolkien was inspired by catholicism cause he was a christian and other things connected to Europes history and culture and that is one of the greatest if not the greatest fantasy universes ever made and its completely different from political messaging about womens rights or trans or diversity or in general making men into an evil thing.
@@BlueFire015 that's partially what I meant.
There are papers on how games and politics were always intertwined.
You're right though, modern politics and mostly pushing of certain agendas can go f**k themselves.They want us to think in certain way and not for ourselves and that's a no-go in my book.
by that time you will be fighting in a trench in Syberia
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Actually, It's one of the easiest problems to solve, although its a baby and bathwater solution... AI translation (its already being used, and probably will take over most of translation work soon enough).
Kinda bitter sweet about Warhorse poaching from CD project red, because KCD2 is gonna be great… but the Witcher might not
Whenever a studio goes public it dies. Cdpr became another corporate monster like any other
Yeah but the reason those devs are leaving CD is because it's already a sinking ship. Mise well go to Warhorse where their work will be appreciated. We knew Witcher was doomed as soon as CD released that DEI video awhile back.
Hopefully they poached the good employees and not the compromised employees
@@altname4742 yah I’ve only worked for private companies and the level of bullshit seems to be way lower, unless it’s government work
actually the guys who made CP2077 and Witcher 3 created their own studio Rebel Wolves.
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We decided to create our own studio and run it on our own terms. Chief among them: the team comes first, always. Happy people make great games - games players want and deserve. Yes, it’s as simple as that.
We’re industry veterans, but we’re hungry for more. We want to create amazing virtual worlds, filled to the brim with powerful emotions and unique experiences. Most of all, we want to share our boundless passion for video games. We know what players love, because we’re players ourselves.
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I just don't understand why the West can't make diversity like Japan does. Anybody that has consumed a lot of Anime, VNs, or JRPGs, know that there's been a lot of diversity in their media. Femboys, masculin women, gay, lesbian, weird, flamboyant, ect, have been in the vast majority of Japanese content for as long as I've been alive. But everyone is cool with that because these characters have real personalities and the games are actually diverse and not just, let's be real, "black". Also you don't see Asian hate in Asian games (maybe in historical contexts tho). That's my biggest concern with the West. A lot of people think White people are taking the blunt of things, but behind the scenes, these DEI crazy people are pretty much anti everything Asian. I've seen the racism in the injustice of their games and anime, but also irl with having asian friends. I just hope I don't see the day that companies like ATLUS get overtaken by Western influence. ATLUS has always had diversity. Especially in their Persona games. But they do it in their own way, and honestly, imo, the right way.
To be used as a bridge……..what’s the new name of the DEI program again?
I don’t feel bad for the devs cause they all bend the knee. Can’t wait to not tip them for making my coffee
If there's a chance my money goes to a consultant I simply won't buy.
Same here bro, anita sarkeesian and kim belair don't understand any other language...
What about the devs that open their "mouths" on social media? It's not their fault either?
Sure, some devs don't deserve the heat, bit the ones yapping on Twitter against gamers do.
And gamer are not responsible of devs losing their jobs, their bosses and their decisions are.
Exactly what I was saying. The entertainment industry is basically following orders. And if you refuse to comply you get put down.
Man, if you continue this way, I think UBI will unleash Yasuke on you!
"DEI should be used as a bridge and not as a weapon"
Hell of a quote. I hope this dev finds the light at the end of this tunnel.
I heard somewhere that the concept "bridge" is the start of rebranding DEI so that they can leave the bad publicity behind....
He is delusional. This is the proof that he is also deeply affected by the disease.
@@Nexus3386-l8g Yeah some other DEI Shill is trying to rebrand it with that in Microsoft I believe. Typical case of pushing the agenda being more important than making the game.
Ya that sounds almost word for word what BRIDGE describes it as. Replacement for DEI that is pretty much worse. Kirsche talks about that.
@@Nexus3386-l8g Yeah Microsoft is trying to implent/rebrand it as that because they know how much its been getting shredded and making games worse. They're reaching for anything for literally any little thing to push an agenda over making a good, genuine, and most importantly fun game.
I can confirm software spending is out of control for these AAA companies. Microsoft licensing alone for E3-P2 licenses runs roughly about 500K for 1000 people. And to think that's just for the Office 365 suite. There's no telling what other products these developers are using that enterprise licensing is so extreme. At my last job Splunk was costing us around $2,000,000 a year then an additional $50k a month for data retention.
This Gaming Industry cycle has been very much been led by publishers, as opposed to dev teams. The collapse this time isn't from a developer stand point. I predict this: Major publishers will collapse, but not all, just the majority. I'm not worried, though, as I've been in this hobby for over 4 decades at this point, and like every collapse before, both major and minor, the Indies ALWAYS fill the void. The Indie dev teams are thriving more today than ever before.
The top minority were talking about all come with a VP title they have to justify having. Thus everyone of them needs to 'tweeks' every decision.