I've been watching TGA for years and this is the closest I've seen you guys being an actual celebration of videogames, rather than gaming ads with more focus on Hollywood celebrities cameos than on the people who work on the industry. Putting a "nobody" on the spot because he helped devs get a job back, the same people who make great games possible, games like Hi Fi Rush that had their entire teams laid off and even won past TGA awards... It's honorable. I hope to see more of that in the future.
@andropovstyle69 That's good to know! But I didn't mean he couldn't be of great importance in the industry. What I mean is that any dev is a "nobody", in quotation marks really, compared to all these Hollywood cameos they choose to put on the spot all these past few years. Remember last year when Antony Mackie and Simu Liu got several minutes for speeches but devs that received awards couldn't even speak for 2 minutes? They were already on billion dollar movies and extremely recognizable, but devs that were being "celebrated" couldn't have half their time to speak on a Game Awards show. Putting attention on actual people of the industry is what TGA should have been doing all along, so that's about what I meant. It really wasn't meant to down play Amir or his importance to the industry in any way and I'm sorry if it came across that way.
This is an incredible addition of an award. Honestly this award should be at the top of the show next to GOTY. An award celebrating those saving those in the industry.
He's a Tencent Director. Which they conveniently failed to mention. Specifically for Development & acquisition. He's presented as the everyday gamer while he's full Corpo.
@@johndenise5639Yes, he works in the game industry and the connections he’s cultivated have been used to help support those affected by layoffs. He’s never mentioned his role or employer when engaging with the community and I’ve only ever known him to be kind and helpful.
I was really disappointed when the layoffs weren’t acknowledged at last year’s TGAs. I was laid off by Embracer Group, alongside thousands of others. My studio had made a really cool game with a really strong community, every project was profitable, we were doing great. Embracer Group gutted our studio, and I still have former coworkers that haven’t found new game dev jobs over a year after being laid off. Something’s gotta change, we have to talk about this, and I’m so happy that Geoff finally acknowledged us. If you’re not in the industry this all might seem silly - other industries experience layoffs too. This is a small industry though. In terms of developers, it’s a VERY small industry, and it’s radically shrinking. Some of the people who made your favorite games will never find another game job because the jobs just don’t exist anymore. It’s sad as hell and it will only hurt the players. Thank you for talking about it, Geoff. Thank you for creating an award for Amir. Thank you for giving a voice to so many people whose careers have been ended. To any devs reading this that have been laid off: keep your head up. If Geoff and others keep talking about this, change will happen, and the jobs will come back. Good luck to you, and stay strong!
Incredible, incredible speech from this guy! I had no idea bout Satvat but now I will not forget that name; i really appreciate geoff keighley and tga team for recognizing the layoffs and industry issues, and adding this segment.
This was exciting to see. I remember when Amir sent me a Linkedin connection request during the Pandemic. I had a chance to chat with him a bit & his passion for not only games, but gamers and the people who make them is so evident. He bleeds passion & he's never asked a dime for his services. It's cool to have become a part of his community before it blew up. Major congrats Amir, you deserved this moment & my eyes legit watered a bit for you when I saw this. :)
Also, I once saw a higher up at a studio in Spain trashing Amir on Linkedin. So arrogant, so hateful. There will always be people who will try and tear you down. I can honestly say, that other guy will never get a standing ovation like Amir got last night. Never.
“My parents taught me, my value lies in how I treat other people” If only every CEO in the industry had parents like Amir’s. An award incredibly well deserved.
Wow it was very unexpected to pop-up in the Game Awards! Thank you Amir for everything you do for the industry! And thank you for sharing our job searches! We are creating a very unique and ambitious title, that we are aiming to be the next Game of the Year award winner (yes, we dream big), so popping up here was like a message from the Future.
This moment really was necessary. It should remind everyone that there are people behind these games and they should be treated as such. Some consumers/gamers should take pause next time they consider absolutely trashing a development team for putting something out that they're not a fan of. For many developers, these games are a part of their life's work. It's a big deal to them if a title fails to meet expectation or bombs. For the gamer, it's just a minor inconvenience and it's into the next product.
Thanks for existing Amir, youre an emotional beacon of light for me that i could make it in this industry, even though i am located in germany and a total rookie, stuck in a draining 9 to 5
Amir has been such an awesome contributor to the industry and a massive source of positivity during a pretty bleak few years. This award is well deserved and honestly is a nice acknowledgement of a part of the industry that often gets overlooked. Congrats, Amir. The world needs more people like you.
This ranks among the most notable awards The Game Awards has presented. Amir Satvat's accomplishments are genuinely inspirational, making this tribute truly captivating. ❤
This was the single best part of the entire show. Dude got a standing ovation from his peers, just pouring out his heart in stage. I sat thru the entire show and this is the only part that stuck with me as truly meaningful. Props to Amir for caring!
Much appreciated for your continued work on helping those that lost jobs, get hired on. all around seems like a humble, genuine individual with legitimately altruistic feelings towards helping others.
I can't tell you how much I appreciated the awards this year where you moved away from pure commercialization (which obviously DOES have a place, you do need money) and moved towards highlighting the devs and the gamers.
What an awesome guy! Thanks for acknowledging this, TGA! These are the people we should be celebrating, not random celebrities who probably haven’t played a videogame since Mario Kart.
This is it, Geoff. THIS is your tone for TGA going forward. Amir Satvat is the way you address industry layoffs. Take some of that $$$ you're making for trailer spots and pour it into helping those game developers. "You cannot make great games without great people." - Amir Satvat, 2024
This man is a Tencent director who works on IP acquisition. When Tencent buys Ubisoft and a ton of people there lose their jobs as a result, that will be his doing. This is some weird shit Geoff.
Well deserving for a man going out of his way for others especially those struggling in the layoffs situation. Little equivalent to the Walter Payton Award but for gaming.
you are actually right. Had to look it up as well. But i wouldnt start blaming him for working. What he did here was on his own helped a lot of people and all of that out of his own pocket. Tencent is a HUGE company not all people working there are bad.
Why did you hide that he works for Tencent as "Business Development Director?" You made it seem like he was some humble, laid off dev with a small youtube channel.
That was a role he entered into long after he had already started this career support service. He was at Amazon Games when he first reached out to me, but that was a role he had worked his way up to in recent years before that. It wasn't too many years prior to that in which he didn't work in games at all, as stated in his video here. Let's celebrate his recent rise into the gaming world, bc if you've had the chance to speak to Amir, it's very apparent that he wants to help other people rise up just like he did.
@@seanbalsanoillustration I didn't mean to imply anything untoward about it. It's just that his position gives his efforts more leverage and a particular bias, and most of his success has come with having the connections necessary to actually accomplish the goal of getting layoffs back into the industry in some capacity. It's just strange that they didn't mention it, because that would actually help make it clear exactly how he's had enough of an effect to earn the award.
@@Square1production Yea I get you. Even if I'm not particularly a big fan of Tencent either (I've always worked and loved to stay in the smaller indie scene), I do think it's admirable that he's using his gained power and influence to help others rise up though. Many upper level people aren't always so altruistic and often forget about the little people once they get big. Amir seriously devotes a whole lot of freetime, I'd say most of it, to helping others with no expectation of payment. At the very least, we need more empathetic voices in these higher level positions like this. It wasn't too long ago that he was in fact a random unknown UA-camr who was getting like 10-20 views on each of his gaming videos! That was only like 5-6 years ago. I do agree that they should have mentioned his position in the industry.
@@seanbalsanoillustration You work for the CCP too? They do love planting dei failures in other companies so they can acquire them for nothing when they tank, thanks to work Amir and others like him are doing for them.
These comments are pathetic, this is partially why the industry is failing. You wouldn't have to be laid off if you just gave us good art without trying to push your agenda.
When all the layoffs started, he made a free job board that turned into a free mentorship service and a bunch of other amazing free career guidance resources tailored to the games community to get as many affected folks back into jobs!
??? You obviously have no connection or knowledge of how or why the layoffs happened. Do you think that is how they fired people? How does it feel to be a mouth breathing idiot
There will come a time where you will mature and cringe when you think back to the nasty things you used to say. Teenage years are tough but they pass.
@@BK-ob3lono I think not. Clearly the industry is failing because they refuse to learn their lesson. I hate the CCP but they're going to eat the Western gaming industries lunch because they refuse to give us what we want, good art. From the show, it's clear the Western devs want to keep pushing their bullshit.
@@xsxxc1What's cringe about highlighting outstanding, egalitarian behavior or is that just a buzzword you throw around for anything you don't like? Are you forgetting that the point of an award show is to celebrate an industry and the people who empower it?
@@JordanztsWhat part of VIDEO GAME Awards don't you get? We watch this for this games. And it was honestly annoying when some of those devs are saying why layoffs happen, when those 2 hair dyed activists damn well know why it happens. Or partly I should say. If most Western games stopped being political, at least half of the laid off studios would still be standing.
I had a tear in my eye at the thought that a humble Tencent "Business Development Director" (did they fail to mention that...?), who seeks out companies the CCP can gobble up, helped people who destroy games get back in the industry. Truly a moment in history.
I've been watching TGA for years and this is the closest I've seen you guys being an actual celebration of videogames, rather than gaming ads with more focus on Hollywood celebrities cameos than on the people who work on the industry.
Putting a "nobody" on the spot because he helped devs get a job back, the same people who make great games possible, games like Hi Fi Rush that had their entire teams laid off and even won past TGA awards... It's honorable.
I hope to see more of that in the future.
He is the lead biz dev for tencent north america, not exactly a nobody... But I totally agree with everything you said. What a guy.
@andropovstyle69 That's good to know!
But I didn't mean he couldn't be of great importance in the industry.
What I mean is that any dev is a "nobody", in quotation marks really, compared to all these Hollywood cameos they choose to put on the spot all these past few years.
Remember last year when Antony Mackie and Simu Liu got several minutes for speeches but devs that received awards couldn't even speak for 2 minutes?
They were already on billion dollar movies and extremely recognizable, but devs that were being "celebrated" couldn't have half their time to speak on a Game Awards show.
Putting attention on actual people of the industry is what TGA should have been doing all along, so that's about what I meant.
It really wasn't meant to down play Amir or his importance to the industry in any way and I'm sorry if it came across that way.
This is an incredible addition of an award. Honestly this award should be at the top of the show next to GOTY. An award celebrating those saving those in the industry.
until you realise the game awards are rigged, this guy is literally a CCP industry plant who didn't actually help anyone...
He's a Tencent Director. Which they conveniently failed to mention. Specifically for Development & acquisition.
He's presented as the everyday gamer while he's full Corpo.
@@johndenise5639He joined tencent after doing all the things he’s currently being celebrated for.
@@johndenise5639Yes, he works in the game industry and the connections he’s cultivated have been used to help support those affected by layoffs. He’s never mentioned his role or employer when engaging with the community and I’ve only ever known him to be kind and helpful.
@@johndenise5639you must be great at parties
2:46 is me! Thanks Amir for supporting game developers! I am in the purple hoodie with the glasses on the top right!
Way to go!
happy for you !!
Love this idea of giving awards and recognition to more people like Amir. He really seems like a truly good human being. He deserves it
I was really disappointed when the layoffs weren’t acknowledged at last year’s TGAs. I was laid off by Embracer Group, alongside thousands of others. My studio had made a really cool game with a really strong community, every project was profitable, we were doing great. Embracer Group gutted our studio, and I still have former coworkers that haven’t found new game dev jobs over a year after being laid off.
Something’s gotta change, we have to talk about this, and I’m so happy that Geoff finally acknowledged us.
If you’re not in the industry this all might seem silly - other industries experience layoffs too. This is a small industry though. In terms of developers, it’s a VERY small industry, and it’s radically shrinking. Some of the people who made your favorite games will never find another game job because the jobs just don’t exist anymore. It’s sad as hell and it will only hurt the players.
Thank you for talking about it, Geoff. Thank you for creating an award for Amir. Thank you for giving a voice to so many people whose careers have been ended.
To any devs reading this that have been laid off: keep your head up. If Geoff and others keep talking about this, change will happen, and the jobs will come back. Good luck to you, and stay strong!
@@austinherrington7049 thank you for sharing! Good luck out there to you and your fellow developers.
Were you at Free Radical? I will hate Embracer till the day I die for the way they screwed FR over
Bro got a standing ovation. Well deserved!
Incredible, incredible speech from this guy! I had no idea bout Satvat but now I will not forget that name; i really appreciate geoff keighley and tga team for recognizing the layoffs and industry issues, and adding this segment.
He’s on LinkedIn super nice guy. And he’s willing to talk to you any time
Best thing the game awards have ever done hands down
This was exciting to see. I remember when Amir sent me a Linkedin connection request during the Pandemic. I had a chance to chat with him a bit & his passion for not only games, but gamers and the people who make them is so evident. He bleeds passion & he's never asked a dime for his services.
It's cool to have become a part of his community before it blew up. Major congrats Amir, you deserved this moment & my eyes legit watered a bit for you when I saw this. :)
Also, I once saw a higher up at a studio in Spain trashing Amir on Linkedin. So arrogant, so hateful. There will always be people who will try and tear you down.
I can honestly say, that other guy will never get a standing ovation like Amir got last night. Never.
Amir is a class act! More people should emulate this guy.
“My parents taught me, my value lies in how I treat other people”
If only every CEO in the industry had parents like Amir’s.
An award incredibly well deserved.
Congratulations. You fell for it.
Wow it was very unexpected to pop-up in the Game Awards!
Thank you Amir for everything you do for the industry! And thank you for sharing our job searches!
We are creating a very unique and ambitious title, that we are aiming to be the next Game of the Year award winner (yes, we dream big), so popping up here was like a message from the Future.
My value lies in how I treat other people❤
This moment really was necessary. It should remind everyone that there are people behind these games and they should be treated as such. Some consumers/gamers should take pause next time they consider absolutely trashing a development team for putting something out that they're not a fan of. For many developers, these games are a part of their life's work. It's a big deal to them if a title fails to meet expectation or bombs. For the gamer, it's just a minor inconvenience and it's into the next product.
That was heartwarming. TGA actually standing for something good. This is the right direction.
Be like Amir, be a beacon of hope for the industry, we need more folks like him.
Thanks for existing Amir, youre an emotional beacon of light for me that i could make it in this industry, even though i am located in germany and a total rookie, stuck in a draining 9 to 5
If it's your passion... you can. We can!
Amir has been such an awesome contributor to the industry and a massive source of positivity during a pretty bleak few years. This award is well deserved and honestly is a nice acknowledgement of a part of the industry that often gets overlooked. Congrats, Amir. The world needs more people like you.
What a guy! Deserves even more recognition 🙏🏾♥️
This ranks among the most notable awards The Game Awards has presented. Amir Satvat's accomplishments are genuinely inspirational, making this tribute truly captivating. ❤
This was the single best part of the entire show. Dude got a standing ovation from his peers, just pouring out his heart in stage. I sat thru the entire show and this is the only part that stuck with me as truly meaningful. Props to Amir for caring!
Much appreciated for your continued work on helping those that lost jobs, get hired on. all around seems like a humble, genuine individual with legitimately altruistic feelings towards helping others.
5:30 "my value lies in how I treat other people" is the key to true happiness
This man won the show.
We need more people like him in the world. A true hero.
I've been watching Amir build his community on LinkedIn over the last year or so, and it's nice to see his impact get attention.
Hands down the best and most important award of the night. Good call Geoff!
This is the best thing that has ever been done at The Game Awards.
Never going to forget this man. To me he is now the spirit of gaming
I want to hug this guy 😢. Thanks for everything you do Amir💌
The true highlight of the entire event.🏆
I can't tell you how much I appreciated the awards this year where you moved away from pure commercialization (which obviously DOES have a place, you do need money) and moved towards highlighting the devs and the gamers.
This man is awesome for what he did 💪 Big w for real 🏆 Definitely well-deserved 💯💯
I am in awe of this man 😮 bravo sir ❤
Thank you to this incredible man
Protect this man at all cost. We need more people like him.
A great man and very passionate, hats off to you, good sir
Well done!!! Way to go Amir!
This guy is awesome!
And the Tencent game changer award goes to...
*CLAP CLAP CLAP*
What a beautiful soul ❤️
Brilliant speech.
What an awesome guy! Thanks for acknowledging this, TGA! These are the people we should be celebrating, not random celebrities who probably haven’t played a videogame since Mario Kart.
This is it, Geoff. THIS is your tone for TGA going forward. Amir Satvat is the way you address industry layoffs. Take some of that $$$ you're making for trailer spots and pour it into helping those game developers. "You cannot make great games without great people." - Amir Satvat, 2024
Screw reveals, teasers, trailers, game news. This is what we need to know about. Every good person like Amir in Gaming industry
😂
This man is a Tencent director who works on IP acquisition. When Tencent buys Ubisoft and a ton of people there lose their jobs as a result, that will be his doing.
This is some weird shit Geoff.
They fell for it. TO his credit he does spend his own money to aid people but he's part of the machine.
Together we can do anything!
I wonder what Phil Spencer in the first row was thinking during this segment...
Hold up isn’t that the tencent director?
Well deserving for a man going out of his way for others especially those struggling in the layoffs situation. Little equivalent to the Walter Payton Award but for gaming.
Great new award and perfect person to receive it
Very high quality content! Thank you for your hard work and diligence! 🍓🌺
This dude works at Tencent lol stop trying to present this guys a a Savior😂
Isn't this guy a director in Tencent?
you are actually right. Had to look it up as well. But i wouldnt start blaming him for working. What he did here was on his own helped a lot of people and all of that out of his own pocket. Tencent is a HUGE company not all people working there are bad.
I like this guy
Im cutting onions
I didn’t even know about this guy before this and I teared up! What a legend
what a class act
What a legend! Congrats on the awards and thank you so much for helping the people that work to give us the things we love the most: games.
Why did you hide that he works for Tencent as "Business Development Director?" You made it seem like he was some humble, laid off dev with a small youtube channel.
They deleted top comments and replies pointing this out.Truly honest people with nothing to hide!
I mean he's still taking tons of unpaid free time to help others.
“All this mf said was good morning and was cool af and y’all hated him”
Damn 👏
Absolute chad.
goated
Your videos are always so entertaining and informative! Thank you for this! 🍭💝
This guy is Director of Business Development at Tencent, by the way. He's not just some guy with a UA-cam channel you've never heard of.
That was a role he entered into long after he had already started this career support service. He was at Amazon Games when he first reached out to me, but that was a role he had worked his way up to in recent years before that. It wasn't too many years prior to that in which he didn't work in games at all, as stated in his video here. Let's celebrate his recent rise into the gaming world, bc if you've had the chance to speak to Amir, it's very apparent that he wants to help other people rise up just like he did.
@@seanbalsanoillustration I didn't mean to imply anything untoward about it. It's just that his position gives his efforts more leverage and a particular bias, and most of his success has come with having the connections necessary to actually accomplish the goal of getting layoffs back into the industry in some capacity. It's just strange that they didn't mention it, because that would actually help make it clear exactly how he's had enough of an effect to earn the award.
@@Square1production Yea I get you. Even if I'm not particularly a big fan of Tencent either (I've always worked and loved to stay in the smaller indie scene), I do think it's admirable that he's using his gained power and influence to help others rise up though. Many upper level people aren't always so altruistic and often forget about the little people once they get big. Amir seriously devotes a whole lot of freetime, I'd say most of it, to helping others with no expectation of payment. At the very least, we need more empathetic voices in these higher level positions like this. It wasn't too long ago that he was in fact a random unknown UA-camr who was getting like 10-20 views on each of his gaming videos! That was only like 5-6 years ago.
I do agree that they should have mentioned his position in the industry.
@@seanbalsanoillustration You work for the CCP too? They do love planting dei failures in other companies so they can acquire them for nothing when they tank, thanks to work Amir and others like him are doing for them.
Amir is a director for Tencent 😂
3:37 is that vince gilligan?
nah I doubled checked, not him
Continue to please us with such interesting videos! You are a real professional! 🐱💞
Actual TOP TGA moment
Amir should be the icon of the gaming community
Bravo! Congratulations dear Amir! So proud of you and happy for you🎉🎉❤❤❤
These comments are pathetic, this is partially why the industry is failing. You wouldn't have to be laid off if you just gave us good art without trying to push your agenda.
Really feel like his website should be linked in the description.
Who's the chick in the thumbnail?
The layoffs is a demonstration of the gaming industries lack of good creativity. AND THEY ALL NEED TO REALIZE THAT.
SAAR PLEASE NO FIRE ME SAAR
CCP industry plant, yawn.
3:51 Who is this purple-haired woman?
Who is he and What did he do. honestly I don't know. I read how he's a great guy and he is the embodiment of gaming but nothing on what he did
When all the layoffs started, he made a free job board that turned into a free mentorship service and a bunch of other amazing free career guidance resources tailored to the games community to get as many affected folks back into jobs!
@realamanda1943 So he's a job recruiter. I mean why can't they just say that
@@thepostman257 There are numerous things they failed to mention about his "repertoire".
Bro thinks he is Keanu 😂
Well, don't sign your souls to the devil...?
Dude's gonna be busy in the next few years when naughty dog and gearbox lay off their staff for those terrible looking games.
With gearbox you actually might be right
HAHAHAHA A I GOT FIRED FOR BEING WOKE AWARD. give me a break. Lmao.
??? You obviously have no connection or knowledge of how or why the layoffs happened. Do you think that is how they fired people? How does it feel to be a mouth breathing idiot
There will come a time where you will mature and cringe when you think back to the nasty things you used to say. Teenage years are tough but they pass.
@@BK-ob3lono I think not. Clearly the industry is failing because they refuse to learn their lesson. I hate the CCP but they're going to eat the Western gaming industries lunch because they refuse to give us what we want, good art. From the show, it's clear the Western devs want to keep pushing their bullshit.
@@BK-ob3loThis segment was cringe foh
@@xsxxc1What's cringe about highlighting outstanding, egalitarian behavior or is that just a buzzword you throw around for anything you don't like? Are you forgetting that the point of an award show is to celebrate an industry and the people who empower it?
If you don’t wanna be fired, make better games.
Just a 6 min commercial. That had no business being on the VGAs.
Relax, we're celebrating an amazing kind thing. Try to show some kindness back
@@JordanztsWhat part of VIDEO GAME Awards don't you get? We watch this for this games.
And it was honestly annoying when some of those devs are saying why layoffs happen, when those 2 hair dyed activists damn well know why it happens. Or partly I should say.
If most Western games stopped being political, at least half of the laid off studios would still be standing.
@@Walt_Xander94
It must be fascinating in your head. Living in a reality so thoroughly divorced from anything tangible and real.
@@Walt_Xander94 So non-Western game studios are thriving? 🤣
Are you kidding?
This is the closest TGA ever got to being a "celebration of videogames" rather than gaming ads coupled with Hollywood cameos.
Amazing moment❤
I had a tear in my eye at the thought that a humble Tencent "Business Development Director" (did they fail to mention that...?), who seeks out companies the CCP can gobble up, helped people who destroy games get back in the industry. Truly a moment in history.