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Employees were caught off-guard
RIP Flop-guard
they should have keep their guard up
@joshuax1987 You mean they should have kept a "high guard"
Shouldnt have kept geoffs opinions in high re-guard
Carlos!
From the janitor that made Titanfall.
Titanfall 3 ⛔
Highguard ✅
Devs 3 weeks later : get fired.
Customer is king. Release whatever your playerbase wants. Make infinite money.
What's even worse is they released new content in that 3 weeks... no game should have new content in the first month. Optional DLC skins is 1 thing. But a new game mode and more characters show how lazy the dev team is.
@atk9989 It isn’t dev team it’s the Management, dev team just got fired.
Yeah I do wonder who made the executive decisions.
But also, the game doesn't play well from what I have seen, so the devs aren't completely innocent. (designers included)
@hit3894 devs have a say. They were all on it. Management is ultimately responsable, but devs did agree with these decisions else they wouldnt be here in the first place
@hit3894 so the management created the 5 v 5 game mode that came out after the complaints? It was the management that released new characters in the first month after release? I doubt that management said " no you can't make other game modes it has to be 3 v 3 on massive maps and not a single player more allowed "
Maybe the real Highguard are the Concords we made along the Marathon.
this is crazy
OMG, man please stop disrespect One piece....
While hunting across the horizon
Marathon will also be DOA.
Lmfao
Bye-Guard 👋
Fools-guard!
😂
FUCKIN BEAT ME TO IT
Never said hey-guard
Layoff-guard
Watching a gaming industry that hates gamers go broke... is cathartic.
^ :D
Yes I love seing these wokies get fired
It definitely gives me that funny feeling
DEI + DOA
Wallets Closed.
Go get a job at McDonald's.
Gamers REJECT you.
there was a developer that blamed gamers for the game failing
almost like if you make a bad product the customer wont like it
the level of entitlement from these milllenial devs is insane
“Hello is this concord? NO, THIS IS HIGHGUARD”
What the difference 😂
Same same, but different.
I thought they said they didn't need players to survive?
I can't believe AK-47 steampunk horsies castle COD magic fortnite overwatchguard didn't hold onto an audience
is that a spongebob reference?
Time to Disreguard 😂
Nice
0:18 Took an arrow to the knee guard
Knee guard, huh?
ACL guard
Shin guard
You think Geoff is still waiting for that apology? 😂
The employees should have been on... Higher guard?
"Player count is irrelevant"
Great job studio head. Tell us if developer count is also irrelevant as you lay off everyone.
The single most relevant data point 😂.
The single most relevant data point 😂.
Employee count is irrelevant.
Developer count is irrelevant if one guy can make a hit. But not on player count.
"my journey"
"my adventure"
These people are so lame lmao
Activists😂
Tell me you never tried looking for a job without telling me...
LinkedIn is like this: it sucks, but it is what it is. You adapt, or you don't find a job and don't feed your family.
Evolution made us desperate for purpose. Natural selection doesn't give a duck.
"Desperate for purpose", I like that. That desperation is at the root of politics. At least in the first world
That's Linkedin for ya, I hate that site sooo much I only made an account just because my company requirement. Never post a single thing though
McDonald's to Highguard Developers: "Welcome Home."
“There’s not a lot of meat on the bone, 7/10”
There it is, the IGN signature
RUclips highlighting “meat on the bone” as a searchable term gave me sleeper agent activation from Danganronpa.
Never change, IGN.
@adreauxonly highlighted it for you
"Too much water."
same person that gave 6/10 to where winds meet btw
That level designer's last game before Highguard was Concord btw. What a career.
Multiple devs that worked on concord were hired to do highguard.
That's why the characters and gameplay looked so similar.
@ShinzoMachimotomakes sense now.
My god these devs really just keep going from mediocrity to mediocrity….. 😂
The only reason I'd call him in for a job interview is to laugh in his face.
Imagine being so bad at your job, you get laid off twice in one year
"Rough draft" 12:21 a nice passive way of saying "the game is incomplete"
Ok furry
“It’s wasn’t over you crashed” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Nothing is f♥︎cked!?! NOTHING IS F♥︎CKED!?!! THE GADDAM PLANE HAS CRASHED INTO THE MOUNTAIN!!!!"
They really let their guard down
Your joke is appreciated👍
It was too high, everyone slipped right under.
They were guarding high, but someone gave them a ball tap. Their guard was never high again.
Like Trump quietly pulling ICE out of Minnesota before the trials start
@chiquita683 that's not letting guard down, he's just a coward. I was so happy when he won he fucked everything up EVERYTHING. I HATE him now
"Highguard..... High.. Guard" he said. I bursted out laughing just at the first mention lmao
I wonder if Geoff is still waiting for apologies.
He's laughing all the way to the bank, sadly.
I'm waiting for one of these devs to say "Titanfall 3 was going to come next if Highguard made the mark"
@selfaware7617they will probably come out and say they were working on Titanfall 3, but the studio bosses wanted something fresh and forced them onto highguard
@ThePaulg123 Would you want Titanfall 3 at Highgard's quality?
@LeCh1mpbecause it's Titanfall , the DNA is already established so it's not like they are reinventing the wheel. Highguard was just a confused mess where I don't think they even understood the game properly
The world is healing 1 Concord at a time.
They don't make Concordlikes like they used to.
The world is killing 1 Concord at a time too...😅
There's at least 2 more Concords coming: Marathon, Horizon Zero Salads
@hawkeye5955💀
The blue-haired lady didn't want it.🤔
Being surprised you got fired after doing a bad job is Peak Millennial Mentality. We need more of this.
As a gen z whos worked in retail for 6 years now i can confirm XD
We know your roof fell into your living room, but we tried so hard. Please hire us at another construction company. We have so many ideas.
The thing that everyone said was going to happen happened.
Every developer who believes in the modern audience: "It will work next time"
Modern audience is about as common as girlfriends of mod redditors
"Socialism will work next time!"
All we want is good level design for a game that's fun to play, with a cast of characters that don't look like they were randomly pulled from old National Geographic magazines that are actually hot and pleasant to look at.
@adibemaxwell96exactly “they didn’t do it this way tho” marxist
These people do not lear.
"Linkedin language" is so weird that makes me throw up.
It's the second worst social media platform. Nothing can compare with reddit. But it certainly is an atrocious place
"The ice cream machine is broken... But here is your fry-guard"
"I'm glad you put it in the ba-guard"
These people shouldn't be allowed to touch anything important like food. Let them handle garbage. Or toxic waste. They're good at that.
I love it so much when Asmon pulls the "Welcome home" Pepe out.
Peak comment
Fries in the bag-guard
I just spit my drink lmao
Ok, this one was good.
Those are actually good. More like forgot the fries guard
Do all these armchair devs in the comments realize that the average worker(everyone that got fired) has 0 control over game direction just like u have 0 control over the menu and McDonalds you work at.
1:50 As an engineer, if you ask me to make a bad game and I do, I have done my job successfully. That was a brain-dead take.
As a fellow engineer, if you're dumb enough to hitch your apple cart to a dead horse, you're not smart.
Me carrying water for Highguard devs. Videogame developers are nowhere close to engineers, and they absoluteky made a dogshit product
“Nothing is ever my fault”
We’ve got a leftist here…
Exactly what I wanted to say. Don't blame the entire team who have 0 say. Blame the leaders
Welcome... to Highguard.
I wanna see Jeff play Highguard live on a stream and show us what he saw in this that made him that hyped for it
It's almost as if this shit is only done for money and not enjoyment.
I honestly believe Geoff must have uncritically embraced the “it’s all your favorite games rolled into one” premise and got swept up by the devs’ (totally baseless) ambition and optimism.
I doubt he’s really played any competitive games in years; he probably has no sense for what they’re “supposed” to feel like anymore.
i mean if a got a big paycheck for this game i would say the same! 😂
Lmao thinking he even plays games
@Gilhope I honestly believe Geoff was given a huge paycheck.
Don't they know anything about Poker?
They should have played their High Card.
fryguard😂
Put-the-fries-in-the-bag-guard
Says the asmongold watcher.
@AndrewSchmid-o8c7ksays the asmongold watcher watcher 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@AndrewSchmid-o8c7kCool story, now put the fries in the bag.
@willowmay-d9d
Congrats you are 5 years old.
@yerbudspud
Did i hit too close to the truth?
How many videos does Amon have titled It’s over? 😂
“Yes”
Titanfall 2 literally has more players than Highguard right now.
Sucks that more people don't play it either, despite universally praising it 😕
I bet if it started getting content updates it could get pretty big again. The overall number of people who own a copy is huge.
@Jetiko27 id play it but i have too old laptop
Nope it doesnt. But its close. Titanfall 2 has roughly 2 000 players per day where as FailGuard has over 3 000. I am sure that it will change soon though.
That’s because titanfall 2 is actually a good game.
Respawn are idiots for leaving it at the wayside.
Titanfall 3 should be releasing right about now but they don’t care about the IP.
So does overwatch 2😂
damn that was quick
1:50 Come on asmon. You know that theyll find another studio dumb enough to hire them just to release another crap game in 3-4 years. Thats their whole existance
IGN gave arc raiders a score of "it's fine"
Arc raiders is boring
I never pay attention to IGN scores.
as usual - AAA cannot be criticized, but anything else is free real estate to hate and nitpicking
@NootNoot-k3ssure buddy, sure
@NootNoot-k3sMaybe to you, but loads of people love it. The same can't be said for Highguard.
"Welcome, to Highguard."
"We did it guys, we survived longer than a Housefly."
"It'll be over before you watch"
Hahahahaha 😂🤣. Most cringe introduction to a game in human history.
Welcome to McDonald's
we got lowguard.
Best thing you can say: They lasted longer than Concord.
2:38 yeah the audio was unbearable. Couldn't stand the horse noises after the first 2 min of playing
They guarded too high. They needed a low guard against the kick in the nuts they received.
Fools-guard!
That would be a mid
They thought it was going to be a low, and then got SPD'd like bum
Oof... right in the They/Thems...
Bold to assume they had nuts to begin with.
“High Guard, how are they doing? Bad, low guard. Getting even lower guard.”
Obliterated 🤣😭💀
They named a game after John Deere hydraulic fluid. ...and they wonder why it failed
Don’t you drag John Deere down into this muck 😂
@MasterAnoos: John Deere has already been taken by dei.
Well at least they tried-guard
Did they...? No, really??
Highguard couldn’t block low. 😔
Fools-guard!
They need James Cameron to raise the bar.
That 50/50 mixup got em
@skullrabbit721They kept falling for the wake up Shory. 😭
@Nosferatu880”can we get much higher~”
So the level designer? That's the person who designed the map the size of Bulgaria?
If you want a map the size of Bulgaria, you should hire them.
Use them for a game where you run around harvesting and crafting.
Yessir, pimp!
The time is right for a Concord/Highguard crossover.
Can someone ask that level designer why he thinks huge map is needed for 3v3 game ?
Probably not his choice, just getting paid
They planned to have more players but the DEI hires couldn’t do more than 3
These corpo looking games are decided by committee.
You gotta ask the lowest common denominator why they thought their feelings were more important than the game.
Sell mount skins :^p
Mounts, and whoever playtest their game gave a very misleading input
i love th mentality of these guys. "Hey the last 2 projects i was involved in bombed horribly so if you need someone for your project hire me"
Highguard: What if Concord but, with horse?
Fries+bag guard 😂
Friesinthabag guard...
All of those references to journeys or adventures suggests that they spent more time daydreaming than actually working.
How concould this happen!? Who concould've seen this coming?
I concurrd with this statement
Investors must be Activists... how long can they throw money into paper shredder
its not like concord though
It’s called crack bro, they been smoking that for years
Crack is a voodoo ritual drug.. my names Kodak black, but when you see me Im white
Ehhh probly snorting pixie dust . Rainbow flavored
No, if they were still doing Cocaine they would still be making money (see the 80s and 90s).
They are mainlining matcha and Ozempic now.
probably just mix of srii's and methderivatives, their brains are just fried. But some l3ftist globalist or saudi money keeps these people employed
Nahh bro, i have smoked crack before, and never had ideas of making "Live Service DEI Games", they are onto something more weird nasty shit!
People blaming the folks who "decided long before release" that they weren't going to get the game are so full of shit. That affects sales, yes, so maybe it sold poorly out the gate partially due to that.
But, more importaantly, it doesn't do a damn thing to explain why 97% of the people who *DID* give it a chance were gone in less than three weeks, and that's the problem that needs to be looked at by these devs. Not "Why didn't people buy our game?" but "Why did basically everyone who *did* buy our game quit playing so soon?"
The knuckle crack before: Welcome Home 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Can't spell ignorance without IGN
I like this.
Said the trump supporter/asmon viewer.
@AndrewSchmid-o8c7k
Hasan, we know it's you man this is just sad
@AndrewSchmid-o8c7k it's a really old (and always relevant) saying.
@AndrewSchmid-o8c7k Do you like IGN?
2 weeks, just like Concord, pattern recognition is important
I swear that at this point, a Geoff Keighley sponsorship is the kiss of death for your game.
"I was impacted by today's layoffs" -> "I got fired"
3:30 Someone screaming "MY LEGS!" in the distance.
They gave where winds meet a 4 or something 😂
IGN killed Alien Isolation and I'll never forgive them for that.
Yep 👍🏻….but we know better nowadays. If that game came out right now it would be a hit. Nobody trusts IGN at all anymore.
TRUTH
@will4673if only. I think it's one of the best survival horror games out there still. Thankfully it's getting it's due praise these days from the gaming community.
Loved that game
I actually just bought this game recently!
Yet another "Asmon making more money milking the game than the game itself".
I saw this earlier and I thought "Asmongold is gonna have a field day with this" LOL
But they said 2000 players is enough for them.
But it was less than 2k.😂
They still have dozens of players!
2k x 70$ = 140,000$ 😂 they are so fkn in debt, they lost their ass son
Great tactic wait to post content for a game doesn't have any content at all.
I want to see the same energy from these people, when their mechanic does a bad job.
Marathon is next
Tbh, layoff doesn't mean anything when these boss still in charge, they just simply hire new talents and do the same thing all over again, Ubisuck proves it
no way epstein just commented
I started dying right away. "if your team needs an experienced level designer." this can't be real rofl.
Not all experience is good experience.
If you have experience making food out of poop, I'm not hiring you as a chef.
Not a single one of those job begging posts took any accountability. That is why you know they'll bring their weaknesses with them wherever they go.
Theyve been playing game dev simulator for too long lmao
Yeah that's not good advertising, basically "I just came from this horrible game that bombed, anyone want to hire me?"
But then again, knowing what western game development is like these days he'll find a new franchise to help ruin.
Well they're not overtly lying. They have experience, two games worth of experience, you could definitely consider them "experienced".
There is, however, a difference between being a professional, and being experienced.
"I did not fire her, it's not true, it's bullshit, I did not fire her, I did naht! Oh highguard."
😂
Underrated comment
Classic😅
I hate that I understood this, good work though!
good memory
Lowguard 😂😂
The sad part is that they gonna find another Studio to Destroy, i think we should have something like a professional rating like Uber.
Failed to retain its player base ? WHAT PLAYER BASE there never was one.
0:42 this one really stings? It’s like these people get laid off so much and just move on to the next thing to destroy. They act like, oh this is just another firing for me, no big deal.
Thats pretty much how the tech and gaming industry has treated its employees for the past 2 decades. Regardless of outcome.
These people are used to getting laid off for good or no reason.
Its the game director’s that are to blame. Not the actually artists and designers under them. They are doing what their creative lead tells them.
It’s like gnats willingly fucking flying into my OJ.
They are slop Devs, taking advantage of the revolving door policy the industry. Have job security for 3-4 years to build a game, then get let go when it launches and fails. The never ending cycle continues
@digitalmci agree, Isn't most of AAA dev layoff their employees when they hit record profits?
Why do they layoff people who can get you profit at the first place...
These games were made for the "modern audience".
It's almost like the "modern audience" doesn't exist.
11:42 long term life-support, maybe?
Asmon roasting these fools is pure gold!😂
You could say it probably isn't ALL of their fault if upper management forced bad calls... BUT, anyone with sense should have seen what everybody saw in 2 mins of trailer and been shopping a new job for at least a year now.
Jeff 100% gave it a fair shot
Hi Concord, we have the high-guard now
waiting for marathon to go the same road
The goal of entertainment studios is not profit, it's social engineering and they will gladly bankrupt themselves in this pursuit.
Jesus H I keep screaming this and no one ever listens. Thank you. 🤙
I think this isn’t their goal, it’s just a routine publisher requirement.
The goal of an entertainment studio is to entertain. You make something people enjoy and you get money. Its simple as fuck, provide good service get good money.
Very true
This statement is ideological propaganda in itself. The entertainment industry wasnt like it is today in* the slightest 15 years ago.
Fleek put it best: “Highguard would’ve died in secret, but Geoff just gave it a public execution.” Not what he intended, but that is what happened. Geoff pushing this game, believing in it, tells me he’s the audience AAA and live services are fishing for these days. That, by itself, isn’t a fault, but that’s not most gamers.
0:20 why not Asgard? 😅
Assgard
No, Asgard is good. This is bad 😂
Because it's "Was-gard"
Witnessing crash out ego death in real time with the internet is low key fucking awesome.
Point and Laugh at all those new McDonalds Employees. Welcome Home
I was gonna joke the fast food places only hire Indians now but then I realized what job we're already talking about and the massive amount of overlap.
For now, i am sure AI Robots will replace them in the future.
Unfortunately, much like the Concord dev team, they are just going to get hired somewhere else to make even more slop.
Are you excited to have coworkers?
Mcdonalds provide service asked for these guys didnt
Welcome...to Highguard.
Jeff gave it the BEST shot it could have possibly had and he did it for FREE
Level designer looking for job, same level designer who made HUGE, empty and boring levels for team of three players 😂
Yes and it was *definitely* his fault the maps only had 3v3...
@Sangth123wouldn't being good at your Job take into account the 3v3???
I’ve only seen some gameplay footage (non-devs), but the map itself seemed pretty alright. What if it was used in a single player or coop rpg? Differently populated with clutter, interactables, NPCs, etc. Seems like it would be similar to other games I played if that’s what it would’ve been used for.
@Sangth123 Well...either he knew it was 3v3 and it was his fault for designing such a big map for it, or *at best* you could say it was a failure in communication between the person who made that decision and the level designer. Neither of those situations is good for a company to have.
He will find another job. The gaming industry is one giant cult and they cover for each other.
Have you seen a game called Date anything you can date a toilet
Of course IGN gave Highguard a 7. When you get paid top dollar to glaze a turd, then you glaze that turd.
0:55 things we left out so you could pay for them later more like.
So sick of 40% of games being taken out to add later in some season update.
3 maps but in season 1-4 we will add a new map each season that we already created at release!
Greatest irony is that if they didn’t get so greedy and carve the game up to sell you the missing pieces later it might have succeeded enough to make real add-ons
@CarbonatedGravy EXACTLY
@bobshanery5152 between that and the people who defend the practice im already dead tired
Geoff Keighley in shambles
that game review at the end sounded like it was written and read by AI
The voice sounds like gamer meld
From High-guard to Fools-guard!
Delulu-gaurd*
McDonald's-Guard