Can you separate the work from the artist? Should one separate it from the artist? This is a question that has always been employing media consumers. For example, in recent years, it is Joanne K. Rowling, author of Harry Potter novels, which ensures headlines and discussions here. She posted on Twitter some transcritical comments. Even after herber criticism of many fans she did not took them back, but reaffirmed her views and thus pushed the actual very large Harry Potter fanbase within the trans community in front of his head.
During video games, then: Can and should one separate games from their publishers and developer studios, if they tend to be problematic or behavior? And how can everyone bypass with them when the behavior of a company is diametrically opposite to their own values?
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- Page 1sexism, PTBS, and more: What s going on with the games industry? – Page 1
- 1st Youth Blizzard!
- 1.2Paradox and ubisoft are also off the table
- 1.3 sauce other studios have their problems
- 1.4Crunch, crunch, and even more crunch
- 1.5Amazon is just as much as possible
- 1.6The games industry needs fundamental changes
- Page 2Sexism, PTS, and more: What s going on with the games industry?
- 2.1Curable working hours increase productivity
- 2.2ES goes without crunch
- 2.3indie studios instead of the big name
- 2.4Boycott without boycott?
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- For me, many indie titles are a good alternative
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Bye Biss Blizzard!
Meanwhile, it becomes clear: a considerable part of large games studios are somehow not so cool. We all have noticed the scandal around Blizzard, fortunately, at least I find at least World of Warcraft not so good, which is why I can return the game without problems. Heroes of the Storm, as Moba Enthusiast, I also liked to play, but after Blizzard from the recent heaven adjusted the title E-Sport scene and thereby lost numerous players to their job, I saw no more to continue playing the game. At Hearthstone, there was the Hong Kong controversy, Warcraft 3: reforgan was simply not good and the developers were doing as well as all their promises.
At present, there are many good alternatives of companies at the present time, which, according to current knowledge – do not treat their employees and treat badly. So I m not so hard to say goodbye to Blizzard. Sure, most normal developers of the company can not do anything for these circumstances, but the big money still make people in the upper floors, and there are many of the accused employees.
Paradox and ubisoft are also off the table
But what about other games and genres? When it comes to strategy, Paradox Interactive is one of the largest players in the market. Europe Universalis, Victoria, Crusader Kings, all pretty good games. But as it turned out, Paradox also houses the so-called Frat Boy Culture and numerous – especially female employees complained about bullying at work and the like.
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Maybe Far Cry 6 can give a little distraction. However, this was developed by Ubisoft Toronto. And Ubisoft has been in criticism for some time. In various studios of the global company, sexual harassment, bullying and other dramatic misconduct should have come. An ad against leading employees has also been introduced. Several senior company members had to take their hat. All these grievances have been known to have been known, but often ignored.
Other studios have such problems
The allegations do not always have to be of huge extent. But even at Mortal Kombat, I can not access without hesitation, there are fighting games of one of my favorite genres. Part of the development process is that developers are watching ultrabutal videos with real violence for hours. At least with one of the employees, this led to a post-traumatic stress disorder. He could not sleep normally, as he had very disturbing dreams about these things every night.
How about valorant instead? Also with shooter I have my fun. But then I think that at Riot Games, exactly the same Frat-Boy Culture prevails as with so many other great gaming studios. No is probably not always no, but for me it is at least a clear no to the games of Riot Games.
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Crunch, crunch, and even more crunch
The Witcher 3 of CD project Red is considered one of the best Open World Games at all. Personally, I also like Sci-Fi, so why not try Cyberpunk 2077? According to Definition, a cyberpunk setting is a dystopia, which mainly exercises criticism of commercialization and large corporations that their employees exploit profit. In order to bring this game to the market, the developers had to work six days a week, so were probably exploited for a game that exploit is criticized by corporations.
Is this irony or cynicism? Especially if you consider that CDPR Crunch previously swore publicly and apologized for appropriate methods in the past? Bonuses to be paid after the launch of the game are often linked to metacritic ratings. This is the case with many studios, but still a questioning procedure.
Crunch is generally present again and again with many major developer studios. For example, developers at Rockstar had to work at Red Dead Redemption 2 at Rockstar.
Amazon makes it just as long as before
A new player in the game industry, but what deals with employees, unfortunately very old-fashioned. Amazon. The Amazon Game Studios celebrate with the MMO New World just great successes, but the huge company behind it is considered one of the largest malefactors, which is concerned with lousy treatment of the staff. Strictly regulated pee pauses, monitoring for every second, missing protective measures during the high-phase of the corona pandemic, work until collapse and, and, and.
All boxes will be ticked here again, Frat-Boy Culture, Sexism, etc., etc. According to Jason Schreier, many female employees who worked for various other companies experienced the worst way of sexism at Amazon. In the hard work, the good Mr. Bezos has still earned a universe flight, paid by the consumers.
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And Electronic Arts? The aims of the monetization of your games mainly on a young audience, which can not be done properly with Lootboxes (gambling) and the like. FIFA is themelessly suitable for all ages, which, of course, very targeted so designed systems, especially in ultimate team mode, on the other hand, not.
The gaming industry needs fundamental changes
One thing is clear: Something is wrong with the video game industry so not at all. No wonder Employees of Ubisoft and Blizzard demand real changes in an open letter. And not only with their own companies, but throughout the industry. But as it currently looks, fundamental changes will probably have to wait for a while. Finally, games with problem-related history are still bought millions and Bobby Kotick and Co. dismiss hundreds of employees and still dust huge bonus payments. Return Further 1 2 3 Sexism, PTBS, and more: What s going on with the games industry? – Page 1sexism, PTBS, and more: What s going on with the games industry? Image gallery for Sexism, PTBS, and more: What s going on with the games industry?
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