Gaming Is About To Get Way Better?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- There are some major new developments around video games that could be good news for everyone. This new law could bring a lot of creativity to gaming and the media industries in general. #gaming #halo #spiderman
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Employee non-competes were meant to be long enough to allow companies to recoup sign on bonuses. They were never meant to extend beyond the employment period. Abusive companies have forced the FTCs hand in deciding that all employee non-competes are invalid. The reason the FTC went this way is because the abusive employers didn't listen to their previous guidelines.
I can't believe these non compete clauses were ever even allowed at all. Who thought that was a good idea?
I think the original idea behind them was that non-compete clauses were supposed to prevent people stealing ideas. The idea was if someone left your company, a non-compete clause could prevent them from taking ideas you had, that you hadn't copyrighted yet, and then taking it from you. It was also something about preventing you from going to a company, getting training and certification and then leaving to set up as a rival.
It definitely wasn't supposed to be implemented as it often is now, which is basically a clause to discourage people from leaving through restricting their career prospects.
The clause also probably came from a time when the company used to offer benefits like pension plans and earned the respect of the employee.
Company A spends 50 million designing a new rock coring machine. Lead designer goes to the competitor and sells design and starts working for competitor. This is why there are non compete clauses. It protects corporate investment in new technology from competitor theft. There are legit reasons for not always filing a patent and holding certain techs as business secrets.
The original employee non-competes were tied to high level employees and sign on bonuses and were for a set period where the employee was expected to work for the employer until the contract ended so that the employer could recoup the value of the bonus. The problem is that abusive employers saw it as a way to force employees from jumping ship and applied it to all employees extending beyond the employment period. Because things have gotten so abusive and companies are ignoring the FTCs guidelines on employee non-competes, the FTC has decided to outright ban all employee non-competes to make it simple. Prevention of idea theft is handled by non-disclosure contracts.
Non-compete: recoup sign on bonus costs
Non-disclosure: prevent disclosure of sensitive company or personnel information
Nobody actually thought it was a good idea, the United States is just an anarcho-libertarian society where companies rule everyone and control everything. If it makes the businesses money they'll get away with it.
Good. I'm sick of companies taking advantage of people. They deserve to be on the receiving end for a change.
First time I've heard of this was Konami years ago.
@@TheStrayHALOMAN I honestly wish there was a documentary getting into what Konami did back then. There were allegations of literally putting the desks of people they didn't like in tiny cramped closets, even.
@@TheCondimonyKing-jo2xc Trying to nudge them into quitting while also having access to their emails and blacklisting them from other studios.
@@TheStrayHALOMAN Just insanity... crazy that was just happening under everyones noses.
While I agree I will say people need to make better decisions on what to read or play
"Non-compete" clauses are REALLY big in the world of Pro-wrestling too. Mostly just with WWE. They're so strict that with most contracts you have to wait sometimes as long as either 60 or even 90 days before you can work for another wrestling company from what I've seen and researched. Other companies might have the clauses but they aren't anywhere near as strict or harsh as WWE's are.
I'm glad gaming companies at least are learning from that kind of fiasco.
Too bad they didn't get rid of this before Vince's questionable behaviors (which I guess took place over decades)
WWE invests several million dollars in making Wrestler A a star. Wrestler A leaves WWE and potentially takes many of his fans with him to new network who invested nothing in Wrestler A. WWE left with loss in investment. Fair? Also, 60-90 day non compete clauses are not very restrictive at all. They aren’t filming 24/7/365.
@@grimfrostoreson5800 If they pay their star enough, they probably don't have to worry about them leaving.
Best thing that could happen in practices besides from us actually owning games
I'm honestly surprised these weren't made illegal decades ago, they feel like the biggest infringement on worker's rights
Non-compete always seemed like an underhanded way for corporations/companies to collectively keep wages and working conditions as minimal as possible. Just sounded like the most deliberate stealth-nerf to workers rights.
Blizzard about to lose half of their dev team 💀
They were hanging on by a thread after the whole Cosby suite thing
Well eastern games doing at least better than the western
Thx for the heart jay
Actually not really when it comes to revenue the West has been far out doing the East.
@@rexthewolf3149That's probably true given how big the West is, but I personally think that the East usually maintains the integrity of its art better.
@@thequestionable1413 Actually the East would be bigger interns of market due to China. The East just knows that if they want to get into the wallets of customers they can rap their loot boxes up with pretty anime girls. And it takes significant less effort than repackaging COD or sports games every year.
90% of the case yeah they are better.
This is a good baby step but until I see laws go into effect putting heavy regulations on microtransactions and making it a crime to advertise a game released completely unfinished while still selling it for full price, it isn't enough.
Technically they are. Microtransactions violate property law. Loot boxes aka gacha are gambling without a license to run gambling services. False advertisement is illegal. It's just that no one has properly challenged these companies in court without settling.
One question, how does this effect bob iger
I still want a law that makes predatory microtransactions illegal. Only cosmetic microtransactions should be allowed.
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Prefacing all of this: I'm ignorant and I could be wrong about any number of things I say in this comment, most of this is just what I recall from memory, and my memory may be faulty. But I still believe it's important to acknowledge that any solution will always be an imperfect solution, I'm glad to hear there's a step in the right direction, but there's always room for improvement.
From what I hear and understand, most non-compete clauses are non-enforceable in court already, they mainly only served as threat for litigation, they would almost never actually hold up in court, but most people can't afford to go to court in the first place to fight them, hence, how they deter competition.
I don't know any of the details, but unless this new law outright makes it illegal to include any form of non-compete clause in a contract, they'll STILL serve their purpose.
It's not that non-competes were viable, they're a strong arming tactic meant to intimidate former employees with the threat (albeit a mostly empty one) of being sued for trying to make a living at a different company.
As long as normal, average people would be forced to go to court just to live their lives free of the company, the tactic itself would still act as a deterrent.
Now this law may or may not fix that issue, I don't know, because the devil is in the details, and I am no lawyer, and honestly, I just don't have the personal time to look into this more.
There's also the issue that while it may not be enforceable, that doesn't mean people themselves will know that, unless they were a lawyer themselves, knew one and had access to them, or were self-educated on the subject, a lot of companies may include clauses that wouldn't actually hold up in court, simply to take advantage of the average person's ignorance and intimidate them that way.
There's loads of stories of people being pressured and harassed by company policies, contracts, or more, only for the company themselves to drop it at the first hint of a challenge because they know they can't actually win in those cases, they only intend to psychologically bully people into falling in line.
It's a step in the right direction, but it only counts if there's follow through and follow up.
Hell, for as long as some legal processes are, it's often shorter to just wait out the non-compete than it is to go to court over it, which is yet another way they try to keep you trapped.
Again though, I'm no lawyer, and I could be wrong about any number of things I said here, I just hope there's more substantial action in the future against behavior like this.
Abolishing non compete clauses doesn’t help the worker. It helps business B who now, instead of having to pay for training, design work, experimentation, etc can just poach company A’s employees, who company A invested in, and steal company A’s secrets.
So you are telling me that after reading how non-competes, though not viable in court, are still used to threaten and pressure the employee, that getting rid of them DOESNT help the employee.
You are telling me banning clauses that scares people into unemployment for minimum six months is bad for workers?
You are telling me that a company not being able to threaten litigation based on non-compete is bad for the worker?
Tell me more about how it is bad for the worker if companies cant restrict their life choices when they don't work for them anymore.
@@Demi_Arts I never said that, I don't believe I did at least, my main point was just I didn't know how effective it's gonna be in the long run and practical sense. For example, how would companies be penalized if they tried to enforce a non-compete clause?
Keep in mind, I also admit I could be wrong about ANYTHING and EVERYTHING I say here, because I am, explicitly, NOT a lawyer.
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@@Demi_Arts Okay, have a nice day. ^-^
Non compete clauses were allowed to get out of control and blanket assigned to everyone. There is a legitimate reason for non compete clauses. Often, corporations won’t get a patent on something they’re working on because a patent is a public document that outlines how something is assembled and how it functions. Since it’s public your competitor can just order a copy, see how you did it, design something roughly 30% different and enter the marketplace having basically stolen your product. To avoid this, corporations keep some of their key processes and tech secret. To protect it you have non compete clauses so your lead designer can’t start with a new company tomorrow and hand o et your designs.
I didn’t hear you mention anything about the criteria courts use to enforce non compete clauses. Typically, a court will look at the business the parties are involved in, the time restrictions in place, and/or the distance between companies covered.
Victory for gaming!
i don't get why there are non-compete clauses anyways, gaming companies these days hate making video games!
Just speculating here, but aren't those clauses there to help prevent stealing of trade secrets and corporate espionage? Maybe the original thought was this was better than having the courts tied up with thousands of trade secret cases which are notoriously expensive and usually with everyone losing something, be it money, information, time, branding, and/or reputation. The only ones there that win are the lawyers. I'm not arguing for; just saying why they might have existed in the first place.
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There is no incentive to be the best place to work
Since there is a surplus of employees, businesses have zero problem finding staff
I don't know man I'm going to still make the PS5 be my last system i don't know if it's going to get any better or not besides I'll have plenty of games to play.
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This Is the thing that stopped me from Doing the Work I enjoyed. WOOO!
Great video mista Jay!
Not until ESG goes away.
Lol that is not the biggest issue plaguing gaming. It's a minor annoyance at worst.
Starfield, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League, Redfall, Unspoken, Saints Row(the new one).
All these devs are now free to ruin the indie scene as much as they ruined the AAA industry.
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I almost clicked off because you were apologizing because you have alergies and the windows open lol... as a first time viewer I only know what I've seen since i clicked on the video..
Glad I stuck around as this was an interesting video... but in the future please dont apologize because of things out of your control like alergies or being sick... majority of people won't notice anyways... and those that do notice and choose to be pricks about it in the comments probably aren't worth paying attention too anyways
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I didn't even know this was a thing. I mean I could see it being a thing so it prevents people from stealing ideas...even though I'd still be against that somewhat. But stuck at a job? I've never heard of that in the US. Seems like, and from what I've experienced, you can leave a company for a better one, just in general. In fact people have been actually doing that recently because companies don't promote or offer raises anymore. But maybe it was only in the creative arts? I don't know. I'm more a passionate hobbyist in that field as I don't like creating shiz for other people but I guess it could've been there. However...that's really dystopian, and pretty communist friendly. That doesn't make sense. I'm really questioning this. Why would the company keep an idea that they didn't want? Just so they could take it down if it ever blew up? How would anybody know to not use their idea they had for another company out of the millions of ideas creatives have? Just doesn't make sense.
To answer your last question, to minimize competition and maximize profits.
Will this idea make a ton of money? They might not think so.
Will it take some of their potential sales if someone else puts it on the market? Possibly, and they can't have that.
We'll get the better art/movies/video games etc, when they get rid of DEI and the woke crap. In the meantime, the better stuff will be coming from people currently working on their stuff, but I don't expect anything great coming from any companies, at least the West anyway.
I, the let's play channel, am looking foward to playing through Stellar Blade.
Finally some good news with gaming
Yeah I wish there was way more, but at least there's this, Stellar Blade launches soon and is uncensored on PS, so that's a W, and there's been more people waking up to soulless corporate crap.
@@DegenerateJay indeed and frankly let’s hope this Corporate stuff finally goes away.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention Jay! I had no idea this was a thing
Sounds like you Americans need to join a trade union 😀
Tbf a lot of Europe has issues with worker rights too.
@@thequestionable1413most of the world needs better workers rights
@@thequestionable1413typical american.
Guy points out a legitimate problem and solution to an american issue.
The american responds by giving the screwdriver to Europe for no reason
@@maalikserebryakov I'm not from America, genius. Typical know it all though. Guy just points out western civilization in general has a lot of problems, and baby boy comes along and cries into a void.
Non-compete agreements are intended for situations where companies make a significant investment in training / educating an employee. In exchange for getting the benefit of that training / education, the employee agrees to not hop over to the competitor for some period of time so that the employer gets the benefit of having invested that time, money and effort into training that employee. It's really not fair to have trained someone up and then they leave as soon as the training's over before they actually do the work the training was for and instead do that work for the other guy. Such an environment discourages employers from engaging in training or education for employees.
However, at this point, employers are pretty much staying away from all training and education anyway in most cases, so non-competes make much less sense.
This^ they served a purpose once upon a time but the culture they were created in and for is long gone by now and they basically serve purely as yet another tool for corporations to control workers lives rather than their original intended use.
They don't just make less sense, they make NO sense. If the company isn't footing the bill for training/education, then they have no real stakes. That person is just an employee, not an investment. That's the key to it, investment. Companies USED TO invest in employees. Some still do, but it's much more rare. If the employee has to foot the bill to get the education or training, then the company should not be allowed to ever force them into a non-compete clause, because they have no right to restricting that potential employees future actions.
They're literally demanding the right to control what people do with their time, money, and efforts outside the job, and that is wrong.
If that is the case, non-competes should cover a certain amount of time after training, not after employment.
What? Our government actually did something meaningful that makes life better? IT'S A MIRACLE!!!
It doesn’t make anything better. Companies will just poach talent that’s already been trained at some other orginazations time and expense so that they can save money on training or designing their own unique products. This isn’t pro worker this is pro business
@@grimfrostoreson5800 Well, the other way is also bad, so what solution do you propose?
This is kind of good to heard the new change that are coming like this screw the weirdos who are screw up gaming right now this is a start to hopefully more to come down the line for thing to change here the first time I heard about this
They need to ban the free to play model and the item shop
LOL. That is what they said about Stellar Blade. Do you see what happened to that "UNCENSORED" game? LMFAO
Won't stop discriminatory hiring and associative practices, though. And that's causing just as much if not more danage to the industry, because it stifles creativity by enforcing limitations.
Ay yo finally. Working in gamin’ was like working at shinra for years. Now we can all be like AVALANCHE, yo
Or if you're in a position to actually know trade secrets.
only downside would be softcore corporate espionage. Learn a skill at one place and easily switch to another company, trade secrets be damned.
Oh, yeah, non-compete is garbage, "we're protecting our tech by preventing you from working for our competitor", but it's really just to keep you from quitting since you have to wait 3 months, 6 months, a year, or longer before you can get another job in the same general field. So, stay in a crappy situation or quit and be unemployed or try to get a job sufficiently unrelated to your current one - which can be really tricky.
The only downside to this is that it's "no FRESH non-compete" contracts, which means if you're under one now I'm not sure you can take advantage of this since it still should apply to the existing contract.
How will it affect the gaming industries regarding enforcing agendas down our throats (like sweet baby inc. and others) ?
What's the brawler game shown? Looks fun
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale. It was on the PS3.
You don’t need a law. Just plug in an NES, SNES, Genesis, and N64. Problem solved.
There's a few people the company I work for wanted to hire. They couldn't due to a non-compete clause in their contract. If they left, they could not work within the field of expertise for 1 year. Sad part is they would have doubled their money working for us. This is within the last month of the time in posting this. Honestly, it's sad, I think it's BS, and I don't think anyone has the right to say you can't work in your profession or for another company for 1 year if you leave us. That's honestly a form of imprisonment.
It really is the case of abuse.
They lure you in with nice looking lounges and "gaming corners" but you're never given the chance to capitalise on those benefits. Especially during crunch.
By then you're locked in by non-compete, and god help you if you use your standard coding signature in another game.
Once my interactions with company A is over they have no right to get involved with me & company B. Now if I got here is all the secrets from company A passwords & all that’s completely different.
From what I’ve heard these were barely enforceable in a court.
I'm wondering if this was to prevent competitive wages
let's petition to make online gaming for consoles to be free please
Let's Go Brandon! (Unironically)
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You know your a gamer when you zone out of the topic at hand in the video looking at the games that are being played/recorded playtime.
As long as it's not because my gameplay is absolutely horrendous I'll take it.
*you're. Learn spelling and punctuation before commenting. Sheesh. Poser.
law never helps
No just go play old games.
This is outstanding news
Non-compete agreements is so an employee will not take knowledge that a company want private and miss using that in a new company. It is a way to keep other companies from underhandedly spy on them.
Unfortunately, the very companies that were enforcing and threatening people with these clauses didn't get the memo, and have refused to operate by the guidelines and statutes provided to them by the FTC for years, so now they get what's coming to them and there's no such thing unless you are in a high executive position. If they didn't want that fate, they should have actually used these clauses for the original purpose, which was already sketchy enough and relied completely on honesty and honor, which companies have shown they have none of.
What's sad is this is too little, too late. Had this happened 20 years ago like it should've, it would've actually done something. Now, it's just going to incentivise companies to use AI for their development. Even if AI is stealing, not enough people care, so it won't make a difference. Even if they outlaw the use of it, companies will still find ways to implement it, somehow. There really is no hope.
Here in the Netherlands, and many places in Europe at least, when you lose your job, you have social safety nets, you get a minimum income to get by. There are rules to it, like you have to apply to jobs and you have to attend job interviews if the governmental institute for the unemployed found a possible job for you. For each year that you worked, you build a month of unemployment fees. So when you lose your job, you still get 70% of your normal income. Once you used up all these months, you end up in the social funds who are the minimum wage income wages. The only time you won't get any benefits is when you got fired for breaking the rules, like stealing, abuse, etc. I believe you only get the bare minimum then. Most often not enough to cover your basic costs thus probably have to leave your house and such. Though I could be wrong about that part.
As to not allowed to work, I was a movie editor and in my contract they also included that I wasn't allowed to work for the competition if I lost my job, but it was only within a certain area. So in my town I wasn't allowed to go work for another media company, but 30 minutes further down the road was fine. It was to prevent direct competition and companies stealing each others employees and the knowledge they have of the local competition. It's different per company but as far as I know they can't forbid you to work in the same field, only in a certain area range. Though laws are different per country of course.
This is hugely beneficial for wrestlers too. Wrestling companies like the hype around a wrestler to die out over 90 day non competes so their competition can’t have them fast and to try and limit their opportunities.
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I'd like people to think about those DEI hires for companies to get good ESG scores. Now I'd like people to think about them immediately jumping ship for another company once they've done their damage.
They already do. They jump from project to project like a swarm of locusts.
@@dragonmaster1360 yeah but this just makes it so that they can never get in trouble for it.
this is good news but for some reason i thought you were going to say something like battlepasses being banned because it fits under some law that i've never heard of
Non compete clauses? Crony corporate nonesense. Competition is what drives things to get better.
Certainly is supposed to be. Just annoying how many companies are allowed to get away with not actually competing , including how many make backdoor deals with their supposed competitors and then just refuse to play ball with the way capitalism is supposed to work.
@@DegenerateJay one word: collusion