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EA promises they did everything they could to avoid layoffs, but did they?
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Talk about sweet baby inc. Trying to take down a users steam account for simply saying which games they’re involved with. Now they locked their twitter account after being incredibly scummy.
So you are not covering sweet baby inc. lol??? Wow big disappointed, and you call yourself game journalist. Sorry Ralph but I did not expect this from you. Literally gamergate 2.0 and you don't even mention it. I thought you were better.
Australia is not even real.
Ignoring the situation with sweet baby inc when this is the biggest new in gaming right now, should have at least covering it and not voicing an opinion if you don't want to be at the end of cancel culture. Ignoring it entirely leave a bad taste in people mouth.
@@Lou_Tenant66gamergate 2.0? So gamers making a fuss over nothing
Gotta love Ubisoft’s business strategy of spending millions of dollars and a decade of time developing a pirate game just to give Assassin’s Creed Black Flag a bump in engagement. Genius!
"Our AC:BF player count has DOUBLED" just don't ask what it's doubled from.
The funny thing is it's not their money that they spent. I believe it's from a country that was founding the development for years until the game came out...
It is genius. They essentially scammed the Singaporean government for years.
I have to give props to EA here. It's been some times since the last time they did something terrible, and they saw people dunking on Sony; they weren't gonna let Sony take their "worst company" crown, so here we are.
It's like these people think "Worst gaming company" is some prestigious award!
Lookin at EA like your dropped this
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they’ve always had terrible practices. this is just the one the media focuses upon.
What did they do? Layoffs? Everyone is doing that.
Cancelling licensed games? Good, make original IP or work on existing IPs.
@@LogicalError007 that's a dumb take. Just because everyone is doing layoffs we shouldn't criticize or make fun of EA for it? Lol
And cancelling games, regardless of if they're licensed or not, is not something to cheer. That's work devs put into a game that will never be recognized, and is money flushed down the drain.
Do I want more licensed games over new IPs? Hell no. I'd much prefer if they didn't even start working on a licensed game, and not cancel it so devs actually have the chance to release games they worked on.
I'm so very, very, sick of executives taking home exponentially more money than anyone else and then pretending they did everything they could to protect employee's jobs.
Agreed. I recommend taxing the rich more.
@@LurkingLarper unfortunately the rich control the taxes
right? like "everything they could" obviously comes with the caveat (except take a pay cut).
@@LurkingLarper But we can't have that, that's SoCiAliSm
Gamers don't care about the condition of the people who make it, doesn't matter what the human cost is. Suicide, Sexual assaults, Workplace racism, Crunching, Wage cuts/thefts, Layoffs, any workplace abuse, They will buy it they truly could not care less. They just want their games. I hate working in this industry.
The contextualized details of EA's executive comp and stock buybacks compared to how long that could've supported the staff that was fired was perfect. Well done Mr. Up.
@Michael_Lochlannboomer mentality leaves a large wake and deep ripples. The notion of working a job vs not working at all is still very heavy especially here in the states. Even if you’re flipping burgers and you don’t even make back the gas to get to work daily.
@Michael_Lochlann seemingly culture wars. On top of how job security tends to attract left wing talking points, you'll notice many commente of that nature asking about Sweet Baby, a group considered 'Woke'.
@Michael_LochlannCrabs in a bucket. Most people are dumb and would rather hold others back than see everyone get a leg up.
Death, taxes and developers getting fired
Are you the same monkeee from Bookaholics?
And here I was loving death and robots :(
that's a fantastic reference, thanks for the chuckle dude
from some of the trash games ive seen, its not a bad thing.
I wonder why skill up doesn’t hire an additional one or two recently laid off developers. It would reduce the CEO salary which is by definition good.
Andrew Wilson looks like a character from Lazy Town, but they were characters with stylized prosthetics. He just looks like a weird Muppet that gained sentience.
why is this true 😭
All of these big shot people are all artificial. They have to be to get so big, we all know how corrupt and dirty capitalism is at lower level. Imagine at his scale.
Ok I’m scared.
No normal human can reach the point of a 40 mil year salary
fluoride stare
Phil Spencer's play time of Skull & Bones is 2 mins
I thought it was a joke until I looked it up.
He accidentally booted it up because he mistook it for Sea of Thieves.
Ubisoft spent $200 million and a decade making a game for 500 players. Wow, so generous of them!
@@Krenisphia I actually don't think it was ever intended to be anything more than a box ticking exercise to satisfy the legal obligations they had to fulfil. That studio has worked on EVERY mainline Assassin's Creed game since AC II. So Ubisoft have basically had at least a decade and a half of grants and tax breaks from the Singaporean government and basically had all that work done on their major titles on the cheap...then thrown out this trash to dodge any legal hassles.
It is absolutely insane to me that these CEOs and Executives take home double digit millions of dollars and yet we’ve had almost 10k people in the last two months jobless.
That’s insane to me.
@@guyincle126what do you suggest they do about it? Given that you mention guns, I’m wondering lol
If the company is scaling down or canceling projects, there's nothing wrong with cutting jobs. You don't pay people just for the hell of it. Maybe you would, and that's why you're not a CEO.
@@guyincle126 lmao what do you want them to do, force the companies at gunpoint to give them a job? have you ever even held a job before, or are you some 13yo spouting nonsense
@@debroofgreenmmm boots. Your bonus is in the mail
@@debroofgreen but aren’t they cancelling project due to their poor decisions?
They never explain HOW these mass layoffs help with their magical boost to quality, though.
It’s boosting the quality of the CEO and shareholders’ lives, and isn’t that what really matters? /s
@@KickinRadTopHat exactly! Wont someone think of the shareholders?!
Looks like its just time to play old games.
Gash darn it my memory fails me but isn't one of the major game dev studios referring their process precisely as "[game studio name] magic"?
edit. I thought it was Warcraft, but Blizzard Magic doesn't sound right.
@@TheJunnutin It was Bioware. Wonder how well it's aged 🤔
not minimizing the layoffs in the game industry because they're quite dire at the moment, but just scrolling down my linkedin, many of my highly skilled and hard working friends in tech and science and finance are being laid off.
My point being, that I don't believe it to be because a "video game crash". I think worldwide, companies are realizing they can get away with destroying the lives of workers in favor of profits and stockholders. It is rather that in the gaming community, consumers are more aware of game developers being laid off than other tech and science fields.
Yes. It is a world wide issue right now. Consumers aren't spending money and everyone is terrified of inflation. They all want to hoard money and put it into investments that aren't as affected by inflation, rather than spend it.
@@MyNameIsSalo It's a self-fufilling prophecy that makes things worse for everyone, even those at the top. Corporations pay staff less and less when accounting for inflation --> staff cut back on spending --> less is spent on the unnecessary goods and services that those corporations sell. There's far too much hubris and short-term planning from executives for any of this to be sustainable, especially within entertainment industries that tend to be the first to be impacted when consumers cut back on spending. Unfortunately, the "safe" thing to do right now as a corporation is make and save as much as possible while it's still possible so there's enough of a cushion when the bubble bursts.
It's more alot more nuanced than just "stocks gotta go up".
Games industry in the west is acting like big tech. Meanwhile capcom is raising everyone's salaries
@Michael_LochlannYup, if even half the working population stopped working, things would change overnight. Easy solution, which is why the rich put so much effort into divide and conquer.
I'm again asking for timestamps
be the change you want to see in the world, get upvotes, get bragging rights, be a shining beacon of inspiration for others just like jesus or donald trump, then sit back and watch as others follow in your example making timetamps FOR you
@@007kingifrit I'm asking THEM (video creator) to put in timestamps.
Really appreciate your framing of the layoffs around CEO compensation and stock buybacks. it's good to call out the corporate ghouls as the unfeeling monsters they are
Never forget Iwata. The bungie employees didn't. But alas X is not that sort of company
Would you cut your pay for someone else?
@@kingjabonAndrew Wilson takes home 20 million usd a year in compensation I couldn't give a fuck if he wants a pay cut he should be forced by the shareholders to take a gigantic paycut.
@@kingjabon yes. I'd take a few dollars if my hourly pay in retail of I always had backup on Saturday.
You have star players in hockey like Sakic, Yzerman, and Brodeur who either altered their play styles to earn fewer points per year but win more games and Stanley Cups, or take less home a year to get the team to get you more wins and cups. You can do good things and make sacrifices to benefit yourself in the longtern
@@kingjabon if i made 60 god damn million dollars in 2 years yes 100%. You personally being sympathetic to ghouls isn't a universal value.
"speaking of clowns, embrecer group" man that had me dead
@@therotten6152you people need to find a different boogeyman to be scared of because this is so overplayed at this point
Embracer group manages to be the biggest villain in a triple a space full of awful monsters in charge lol
@@therotten6152 I agree, but shillup won’t say a word. He’s bought and paid for
@@invalid_420 oooo someone’s scared their world view is being rejected 😂
@@invalid_420whoa, why’d you get all defensive lmao
Didn't expect the Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience at the end there. But I do think its apt with the gaming landscape as of today. A poorly produced, AI-generated cash grab spectacle--that would be dead on its tracks and boo'd to heck... if it were not for the passionate and very real cast of actors that they hired who gave all that they could despite the dire circumstances of the event. Very reflective of the gaming and art industry these days.
Do look the actors up and the stories they share about the event. They're wonderful. I love how the Oompa Loompa lady with what minimal candy she was provided tried her damnest to ration the jelly beans so each kid who attended could AT LEAST get one.
Makes me very glad that my favourite gaming content creator is incredibly, unapologetically pro-workers rights and anyone who thinks it’s irrelevant to the gaming sphere needs to grow up.
My wishlist has gone from completely unused a month ago to very very full since following your channel. I really appreciate these weekly updates especially the ‘put this on your radar’ portion.
Never stop covering all aspects of this industry. The good and the bad we need all the information we can get in the clearest possible context.
No time constraints needed. The more the merrier.
Unless it has to do with Sweet Baby. Then he shutting the hell up
“All aspects” 😂
@@ItsReallyJCole it's just a dangerous topic for any public person. So they avoid it like plague.
Or double down on it and bring it to extreme, if they aim at some "right wing" audience. But it's almost never adequately covered.
Another problem, if you start mentioning it, various bad people (of both extremes) will be attracted and start toxic arguments. Some will try to go after your job security, and it may actually really harm you in the modern world. If I was in his place and my job depended on it, I would also probably not mention it.
If nothing else, he may just easily lose invitations to events, interviews and early reviews from many companies, cause it's bad PR.
Though I see no harm in neutrally stating the fact about ESG rating compliance and things that feel fake. Cause it's another corpo evil. Forced diversity by quotas doesn't help anyone, it only makes things worse. I want real sincere passionate diversity for example.
Can we target this instead of crying that someone's gender, race or sexual orientation is wrong.
So you're not "ring wing" or a "bigot" if you mention this. Proper progressive left wing people should actually care about it even more. Cause it's average people vs corporations.
But may be it's easy to take your words out of context and weaponize against you, so no one wants to even risk starting this battle.
@@ItsReallyJColeGood! That stupid nonsense does not deserve to be covered, all it does is give the grifters the attention they want
"Dreadwolf will release this year"
X to DOUBT
I'm guessing holiday season
@@hoshi314 It could be announced for that, but if so I would expect a delay into Q1 2025
@@violentpursuit for a game that might make or break bioware? I could believe that
Your summary of the Warner Bros Execs "absolute clowns, all of them" was so on point, thanks for saying out loud what I was screaming at my TV while you talked about that segment 😂😂
As some one who worked on Crash Team Rumble we knew it was gonna be mid during its dev cycle. We all scratched our heads as to why ABK was even making this game in the first place.
Was the project meant to be something else at first? Or did management just walk in one day and go “hey, we’re making a Crash Bandicoot MOBA!”
@@gavo7911 It was originally supposed to be DLC for Crash its about time. It was not ready in enough time so ABK was like fuck it we are just gonna make it into its own game and release it later.
Thank you for your contributions, and I'm sorry you had to work on something that didn't turn out grand. It still looks really good and cartoony though.
I still feel bad for all the hardworking people who made it
Would love chapters in the vid so i could skim through the video to check if i wanna watch something
Thank you for adding it in the future
Ralph: "Sifu - The closest thing we've got to a John Wick game."
Bithell Games: 😢
The real tragedy in Nintendo vs Yuzu is the death of Citra, the 3DS emulator. The 3DS eShop is closed, and soon the multiplayer servers will be shut down too. Nintendo isn't losing any sales to Citra, and communities for multiplayer titles like Monster Hunter 4 could have continued to exist using Citra's multiplayer features.
The biggest issue is that many of these now twenty thousand people or so that have been laid off since the whole thing started last year, will probably leave the industry for good. They have nowhere to go. When almost everyone is laying people off by the hundreds or thousands, no one can possibly hire enough to take in even a fraction of these people. They'll probably land in more traditional software development and never look back. And the signal this sends to aspiring game developers: don't even think about it. The implications of this coprorate greed for ever infinite growth will be felt for many years from now, and frankly the gaming industry already had a big problem with talent retention when almost everyone was exploiting their workers with poor working condition, crunch and bad pay.
"Boring" jobs are better anyway. When you're passionate about your job, you can be more easily exploited. Save your passion for your personal projects.
Whenever I read 'corporate greed', I am reminded how so many do not understand how markets work and how any industry is at the mercy of them.
That said, this post has no other redeeming value or points. No one is being 'exploited' here ffs... If you dont like where you work, leave... "Bad pay?"... Do you have any idea how much skilled developers and artists make?
I'm celebrating the layoffs to be honest.
AAA devs have been making nothing but crap for years and have given the worst and most entitled opinions towards things like Elden Ring, BG3, and other recent popular titles. While I'm sure plenty of the people getting layed off might be good at their jobs, the reality is the industry is extremely bloated and is using far too much on too little.
If this allows for a restructuring of these companies towards smaller, more talented dev teams that make better games, then great. If it kills them completely, then also great. We have had no shortage of good games coming out recently and the employment of others doesn't come before the quality of the industry. The decline of the AAA scene is pushing the mainstream community towards smaller studios that really deserve the attention.
IMO we are at the early stage of a gaming renaissance.
@@pagatryx5451 No one likes to see people unemployed that want to work, nor should anyone think that is what you are saying (surely not), but your points are well taken and, I believe, true.
What also is not being taken into account here by most is covid over-hiring (and these layoff being the correction) and the introduction of AI into production pipelines - something that will inevitably trim job seats.
@@pagatryx5451This is an extremely naive position. The people being laid off aren't responsible for bloat, they're talented and passionate developers and creatives. The people left behind are executives and business people who made the terrible decisions in the first place. You're advocating for an industry consisting entirely of Bobby Koticks.
I dont know if anyone else feels the same way, but for the last 6 months, I’ve barely seem good news from the gaming industry. It feels like that old adage “it will get worse before it gets better” is getting closer and closer way faster than I’ve imagined
lots of good news in the indie scene. They're popping off, so many job layoffs means they can hire people easy. All of the best games this year have been indie or small studio games.
The big AAA studio scene is dying off because its just not profitable anymore. The companies grew far too big and became too inefficient with their staff. Which is shown when studios of
I dont know what the fuck your on about. The gaming industry is only getting better recently with Helldivers 2 and Lethal Company. The game world is in the best spot its been in a while
Andrew Wilson looks like what an alien would think a handsome man looks like.
WB has no idea that Suicide Squad flopped LARGELY BECAUSE it was a Live Service Looter Shooter. All that their charts are telling them is that IP failed, but the Harry Potter one didn't. So of course the smartest thing they can think of is make the next Harry Potter ip game a Live Service.
The layoffs are obviously not "normal" but they're not gaming industry specific either. You may have noticed that there's a near worldwide economic downturn, and maybe, if you're one of the millions who've been affected by it, it's not about either caring or not caring about layoffs in this one industry, but about not being interested in a shallow analysis of it.
You mean there might be more to it than "CEO bad"? I am absolutely shocked! 😂
in such a grim section, that 'Randy, why can't you just be normal?' line cracked me the fuck up - well played.
Unicorn Overlord is not on PC, despite being on "All platforms".
"In difficult moments, we must remember how important it is to show up for our players and for each other. Except the people we casually fired."
I fixed her quote.
The timing is crazy because Rooster Teeth just got shut down
Literally feels like there are layoffs every single day.
Because there are. Welcome to the real world where you are not entitled to have a job if your employer doesn't want you.
I just lost a job a month ago. They said it is because of my health, as I have depression and tried suicide last year. It really hit me hard, I barely function now at all, so I understand the severity of a lay off. But with that said, thats life, it happens all the time and I think Ralph overstates the tragedy of it. It is not a tragedy, it is just a lay off. I mean it is sad that it happens to people, but it happens, you getting a job does not mean you can rely on it forever, if you ever think that, you are stupid. People say that companies are rich to keep people, well, you do not become rich by wasting money, ever, that is not how successful people operate, if they feel they can afford losing employees, they will cut them. It is not a charity, sorry, its not. Losing job is usually not the end of the world or even close to that, if you are healthy and qualified. I honestly at this point sick of hearing of people treat industry lay offs as a tragedy of some kind, and I lost my job 37 days ago myself and am defeated myself. But just enough of it, can they stop pretending that companies running simple business are evil because they run a.... business...
@@TheRealUcanUwillwhen it happens industry wide it has more effects than just the questionable ethics of record profits and mass lay offs, it's that when you get these mass firings you begin losing veteran talent and aspiring experts, which means that in the future for a while when they re-hire for a fraction of a salary, because they always do you get a very new green dev studio who will struggle to make actually good games for a long time, so the triple A space gets worse overall
@@therotten6152 thats the boom and bust cycle, it just happens. Economy booming= hire more people and buy more things. economy bust= layoffs and spending cuts
@@Michael_Lochlann As I said, it WAS a big deal to me, because I am very ill, I am likely to commit suicide soon. But even with that said, I still realize that it is part of life. I understand covering this because it is part of industry news, and this is literally what video is about, but I am tired hearing how companies firing people are evil, how terrible they must be for daring not having as much employees as before... Like seriously, WTF? It is simple business, everyone must keep their people no matter how many or how few, because unemployment is bad...? Like WTF are we even talking about?
Is it sad that some companies pay one man 20 Mil a year, while laying 100 minimum wage people? Yes, of course it is, but it is their decision, it is share holders or whatever decision, they try to make most money, they aren't doing charity to one ultra millionaire while purposely screwing 100 poor people, just in spite. They believe it makes their company more efficient, and that is their choice, even if it is stupid. At the end of the day, it is their investment, period. They are literal successful millionaires in this story, they probably know at least something about what are they doing. What else is here to discuss?
I appreciate that Ralph puts TitanFall IP in his thumbnail any chance he gets.
2 is one of 2 games I've 100% and ive been craving more ever since.
Love these weekly videos and you not sugarcoating much in them to say the least, cheers!
Just hearing the words "The Last of Us: Part 3" made me chuckle a bit.
The Animal Crossing recreation killed me 😂
Stock buy backs really get me. Even in my job we miss out bonus constantly because we missed some sales quota, but we can turn around and spend 3b on buy backs
If you are from the US you can thank Ronald Reagan for making stock buybacks legal again during his cursed presidency.
Dude! You're so close to a million subs! Well deserved.
Correction: Unicorn Overlord is NOT coming out on all platforms. No PC release.
Edit: ATLUS released a public statement regarding a PC release of Unicorn Overlord:
“As a publisher, we would like to deliver it to PC users as well, but per our agreement with Vanillaware, we are only releasing on console. In other words, there are no plans to port it to PC currently.”
Damn
I was happy for a moment, and then sad!
It's because the devs wants their game to actually...work on release 🫢
Well they could use an emulator....
Can you name one time that the time that a CEO claimed they did everything they can to save jobs and it was true?
...Itsa him, Iwata?
Thanks for the update my dude!
4:59 Amy Hennig’s Captain America/Black Panther game is not under EA, it’s under Skydance. EA opened a new studio, Cliffhanger Games, to work on their own Black Panther game.
My college professor was a senior environment artist at Deck 9 and got sacked. I heard about it from him and my first thought was "yep, SkillUp's show ain't gonna be pretty this week either"...
Here's to hoping the industry shifts again by the time we graduate
Deck 9 is absolute trash. They make shitty hipster point and click walking sim games...
@@CaptainFancyCat You know, instead of being a gigantic asshole, you could just say "Even though I'm not a fan of their games, it's such a shame that so many talented people lost their jobs."
But you do you. Just remember shit like this when you wonder why nobody invites you to parties any more.
Sure man, cover the layoffs. It's important. It also does not need to be half the runtime of the vid.
Thank you for not feeding into the "Nintendo are greedy jerks; leave the multibillion dollar company alone" narrative that is all to prevalent on Twitter these days. Glad to see that there still are mature people on the internet who are able to see things from two sides.
Screw those jerks for protecting their IP and Patented products from Illegal piracy. What a bunch of jerks. /S
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I'm glad to say I'm one of the lucky one to be in a studio that is thriving. After 5 years of struggling. I wish all the best for the people who got layoff
Will you cover the Sweet Baby Inc scandal at any point? I'd be interested in your take on how it might affect the industry as a whole with regard to inflating game budgets possibly due to overpriced consulting fees for example.
Covering the industry doesn’t have to mean consistently highlighting layoffs as if it’s the end of Western Civilization. It sucks we get it.
This happens, the industry is course correcting and sometimes that means people lose their jobs.
Again, game developers aren’t any more special than anyone else . If this means less games, that’s probably a good thing considering what’s come out from AAA studios recently
10:40 I kinda like the subtle putdown of "no, I'm not telling you anything bro, use your head" in Randy's statement there. Corporate middle finger where it normally is, right between
the lines.
Great show as usual
31:05 That was brutal. Poor Mike Bithell...
another lack of mention of the ESG hedgefunds drying up causing a lot of these layoffs, starting to think skillup is purposefully ignoring this fact.
Because it doesn't fit with his narrative.
Can you elaborate?
@@tommyswain3762A sweet baby inc employee harassed a steam curator, hope that helps
@@tommyswain3762 sure, I first noticed it when Skillup did not mention his mate was involved in the scandal he was reporting on, then when all these people started losing their jobs he has not mentioned one of the major reasons why is due to the ESG based hedgefunds removing funding to these companies, they all took the poisoned investment, worked with these corrupt and incompetent consultation firms and are all now reaping what they sowed.
Élaborâte por favor?
Any shot we can get timestamps on these videos? I love them and watch every one, but sometimes I already know about a story or two and would like to be able to jump to the next one instead of randomly skip ahead and hope I land on the next story
I'd say the main difference between an Ubisoft open world and FFVIIRebirth's one is that most of the rewards in Rebirth are good and worth it, whether it be new materia, items useful in hard battles or narritive secrets and lore drops.
The main difference is that there is also a lot of variety in FFVII with the mini games. Ubisoft just has a rinse and repeat pattern to their open worlds.
Covering the Industry IS covering our Games. Thank you Ralph! o7
Except he decided to ignore the most glaring gaming news this week in the form of the sweet baby inc situation
Please do not stop reporting on job cuts. This is important information for everyone involved in the industry, wheter it be as consumers or developers.
No.
What am I missing about R* wanting a 5-day work in office policy?! That's a normal week for the majority of people.
In-office.
Since the pandemic, R* employees have been able to do an amount of those 5 workdays at home. For those complaining, work-from-home probably negates a painful commute as well as other benefits.
I know that is the case for my aunt in another industry, she commutes an hour both ways only twice a month now, and probably will never again work a job that won't allow most or all hours to be remote.
All these layofs are just sad. Thanks for keeping us updated. Hopefully no more layoffs tho..
I mean you didn't review Baldurs Gate 3 (another lengthy RPG) why would I expect a Rebirth review?
He never promised a Baldur’s gate 3 review. And he said he has nothing to add to all the positive reviews previously. Plus, all,the things he’s already said about the game in his podcasts.
Maybe when the game finally is complete with no more patches and doesn’t have any bugs he could review it.
@@Michael_LochlannVerdict also seems in on Rebirth so by your own point he doesn't need to review it then.
@@makasete30If he has nothing to add then what does he have to say that's new about Rebirth? Also BG3 is feature complete there is no add-ons coming, any patches are just small minor tweaks. Its not a buggy game.
If the company is scaling down or canceling projects, there's nothing wrong with cutting jobs. You don't pay people just for the hell of it. Remember how Twitter cut many jobs yet the website works fine? There are probably many unnecessary jobs at EA. The CEO pay is irrelevant - that's the market rate for a company that big. Not everyone can be a CEO. You certainly couldn't if you'd squander money from a stock buyback on paying people just to keep them employed. EA probably hired too many people during the COVID boom and they're downscaling. It happens everywhere and it's not a moral issue, it's business.
I understand and my comment was unsympathetic to the toll on the fired workers. I wasn't seeing any comments which suggested that the layoffs might have been necessary though. I don't know if they were or it's just corporate greed, but many people made comments suggesting that it was done to give executives a raise or something like that. We can't know exactly why, so I hypothesized that the job cuts were done to stabilize the company as a whole so it can continues to employ the thousands of other workers.
It's unrealistic to expect companies to only add jobs but lots of people think layoffs are automatically evil. The only jobs that have great security are public ones (which can be good or bad but that's a different discussion). I've been let go due to lack of work and I've terminated people. It sucks but most of the time it's not the end of the world Also, I doubt Skill Up or most other UA-camrs pay their team anywhere close to what they pay themselves. The channel owner usually takes home many times what even their full-time employees get. That's why I don't like the moral posturing about the huge executive salaries.
It's naive of Skill Up to assume that companies that take in billions in profits can always afford to keep their employees at the current level, and it's possible that the ones who were laid off worked on games that he hated or that underperformed. Some people do deserve to be fired and sometimes a company just takes on fewer projects and has no use for all of its workers. Even companies that make billions still have to operate like a business. Some of those big companies aren't even profitable yet (like VC-backed ones). If Skill Up has any evidence of corporate malfeasance regarding the EA layoffs, then he can take the position he does. Pointing to execute salaries isn't sufficient evidence of wrongdoing, it only shows that they're getting paid the going rate for executive positions in such a big company. If Skill Up's channel took in a lot.less money, he'd have to fire his team members or cut their salaries/hours too. I think he was taking a cheap shot because he doesn't know how necessary the layoffs were..@@Michael_Lochlann
man I could listen to you all day bashing the Execs and calling people out! this was so great to listen to.
I enjoy the tone of these videos.
SkillUp I know this is dangerous turf to ask but will you do a video or segment on Sweet Baby Inc? I'd like to see your perspective, however brief or detailed, as you are someone who is very well versed and knowledgeable on the inside of the industry. I think the more coverage and light shown on these people the better because they're trojan horsing using real issues as bait and creating more division.
Why do you think he hasn’t covered them?
ShillUp about to roast Android Wilson. 🍿🍿🍿
Lmao
I appreciate your reporting, comrade.
near the million brother!! 🎉
We have arrived at the 'go broke' part of the formula.
Shhh 🤫 lose lips sinks ships 🤐
not gonna talk about sweet baby? whats been trending lately?
suspicious that he would avoid that
Just because you have the money to pay staff does not mean you don’t let them go. If your job is not needed, it is not needed. It’s that simple.
A minor correction. Dark Forces is available for basically everything including the switch.
Profits: Have been rising for years.
Companies: "Damn we can't afford employees anymore."
What's your opinion on the whole sweet baby controversy?
He won't talk about it.
@@stryker0ae I bet the Laymen Bros would've. Sadly Ralph sold his soul and embraced the Shill Up identity.
@@jez49647 I agree that I'm disappointed he's pleading the 5th on the issue. But shilly never made fun of anyone else publicly for having a strong opinion, which is the whole deal here.
At least he just stays out of all of it.
@@stryker0ae I wouldn't have a problem with him staying out of it if it weren't for his supposed commitment to commenting on news in the industry. It feels like the layoffs are an easy subject for him to virtue signal over and suck up to devs, while ignoring an issue that is actually of interest to the audience, some of us, at least.
@@jez49647 sorry I was replying to someone else with an orange icon. My bad
One way to fix the live service shenanigans. Someone like Aus or Germany, where it's small but takes a big monetary chunk of the games industry, passes a law where taking a game off live service requires adding tools for 3rd party servers or player hosted lobbies.
You guys are doing such A great job of these episodes honestly. Keep it up team 😎🔥
Would love you to cover the Sweet baby Ink news
He will do only when it's "safe"...
What news? “WOKE consulting group RUINING games with WOKENESS”. They’re not reporting it because there is no news; same culture war BS.
@@giversinner971really? So the steam curator page being targeted by a sweet baby inc employee and harassing them isnt news? Cuz that sure sounds like news to me.
I think what frustrates me the most with anytime there's layoffs is usually the entire workforce that gets sacked can be avoided by one exec not taking home some massive bonus or a small percentage cut being done at the top that could fund everything but no it's always the people at the bottom who actually are trying to survive that get cut. Meanwhile at the top sure you'd lose money but you'd be losing the ability to buy another yacht or some frivolous stuff rather than losing the ability to send your kids to school or pay basic bills etc
Being an "older" gamer I do love it, SkillUp, when you make jokes referencing early Sega vs Nintendo stuff like your "Sega does what Nintendon't" reference in this one :D and it reminds me I'm not the only one who was around back then!
Average age of a gamer is 34 mate. Keep on gaming! ✌️
Its not usual in VideoGames industry which was in a protected bublle, but in other parts of the work segmants, since 5 years and with the inflation, its hard to find jobs in "normal" segments.
So Videogame industry, welcome to the real world where most of workers are in constant struggle to survive.
The video game industry crashes before, probably before you were born. I don't know if you missed it, the industry is more profitable than ever but the greed of execs are what is driving the layoffs. Seek understanding before showing your ignorance and condescension for all to see.
@@fourmoyle the videogame is more profitable means nothing as in "normal industry". Some a minor segment is very rich, the others struggle, the majority of them.
And yes they were in a bublle, the fact is theyre impacted as others workers in other sectors. Take2 and EA have a lot of money as Microsoft but the rest struggle to maintain profit. As in the real world 10 companies are very very rich when 1000 others struggle.
Youre videogames are very profitable means nothing in real numbers. Your point is like the financials in game Cie seeing Fortnite numbers and saying Game as a Service are very profitable....
@Michael_LochlannMy point is to not forget the majority of people working in all the other segments, who has been in crisys since the covid; and noone think of them, it will be nice when noticing the recent layoffs to relate the general economic recession for all workers. This segment (videogame industry) has been protected for decades. So i didnt say rejoice, but take a step back. The writing were on the walls.
No mention of Sweet Baby...
Just now noticing his extreme bias are we?
Of course not, none of these reviewers ever said anything against the DEI
No news on the Sweet Baby implosion?, was tuning in for this.
I dont think skillup will ever talk about this until it becomes so socially acceptable that IGN mentions it
He'll never talk about anything so overtly political, unfortunately.
@@stryker0aeI tought everything was political? Especially videogames
@@DionPanday whether it is or isn't, shilly doesn't seem to be the type to give his opinion, lest he alienate a portion of his fan base.
It's good business sense, even if it's a bit spineless.
@@stryker0ae I’d rather have principles than be a shill but I guess that’s just me
its sad that every week has to start with another round of layoffs, but it still was a great episode as always
as a game dev, thank you for talking about the lay offs.
No wonder you didn't mention sweet baby inc disaster
Sometimes developers aren't worth keeping, even if you have the money.
Wilson: This greater focus (on my bonuses)
Seeing an old CRT monitor with Web 1.0 style pages mixed with MacOS 7 windows and UI incorporating themes of streaming and modern social media followings... it all reminds me of Futurama's "whalers on the moon".
I know it won't always be popular but I'm begging you please continue to cover the layoffs even if it gets tiring. They win when we let it become normalized because we're tired of hearing the impact to our friends and coworkers. Layoffs affect real people that some of us know that go through real pain and it's important someone tells some small part of their story.
Ever gonna cover Sweet Baby or
I wouldn't count on that, unfortunately.
@@Downsider24 yeah lately I've been starting to understand why his channel is so big.
no cause he agrees with their ideology
Executives hate taking any real responsibility.
Ghost of Tsushima PC trailer just dropped. Never change Skill Up.
No coverage of the Sweet Baby Inc catastrophe? :/
He's a coward in that regard, dont expect coverage here
what catastrophe? all ive heard is that they compared a section of white male gamers who cry about minorities in their games to picky babies. which is just accurate if u look at some of the reactions to tlou2, some black woman in god of war or anytime a female character doesnt look like a barbie sexdoll
@@KimFromTheCrypt
There’s more to it than that: some of the employers have said some racist and prejudiced things in tweets about white people and deleted them recently, but they were still spotted. For a sensitivity writer to have those views is concerning.
They tried to get a steam page and user harassed and cancelled for posting a list of their games, then it backfired.
The CEO admitted in a presentation that threatening is a good way to get business if you are not listened to.
A developer said they didn’t have much input in Suicide Squd but then social media messages from a SBI employer surfaced where he said that he was proud for much of the writing for a lot of the script and dialogue and they hired more writers for the game.
As to the unrelated matter of GOWR you brought up. Personally, if I’m watching a movie or playing a game based on African, Chinese or Indian mythology and just one of the Gods or deities is a young white woman it’s going to break immersion and be jarring. Yes, even fantasies need logical world building consistency.
Similarly, in a Norse mythology it is worth commenting that the only reason for the inclusion is diversity where none was needed and not present in the first game. It’s not a big deal and the actress did a good job, but it’s worth criticizing.
The other games you brought up have different contexts, but you are in danger of projecting reasons and misrepresenting a whole host of complaints.
Having said all that - it’s not a catastrophe or main news, just silly drama that we are wasting our time on and will forget about soon as we carry on with our lives.
Obsessed.
I’ll cover it for you bc I’m the bravest. WOKENESS. WOKE. They’re WOKE writing WOKE garbage ruining games with WOKENESS. WOKE WOKE WOKE.
It's important to cover layoffs, to everyone that is questioning this while watching a videogames news editorial, think for a moment: do you really think that this isn't going to have an impact on the games you play? C'mon.
Also: I can't belive you didn't cover the Sweet Baby Inc. mess. I really wish to hear your opinion on that, Ralph.
That TMNT arcade game is legit fun. I can't wait to revisit it.
jo, Shill up on a holy rant mission this week. i like.
Please don’t stop covering the layoffs, these need to be put on more people’s eyes. Especially during a time when almost everyone enjoys video games and profits are incalculable
very odd not to mention the sweet baby thing, huge gaming news not being covered in a gaming news show.
Really makes you think doesn’t it 🤔
"Nintendoes what Segcant" would have been better.
I feel like every round of layoffs sheds more creative people leaving the companies leaning more and more towards the bean counter copo suit types who don't understand their audience