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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 36 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

boggles my mind that game devs don't unionize, like.. what do they expect? of course they're gonna be exploited without a union

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I imagine that if they try to unionize, the large game companies will just cut off their income until they either become bankrupt or until they crack.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And then they will get their ass fined in a way that they will go bankrupt instead.

[–] AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Lol ya, okay. Sure they will.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Too many people want to work in the field

public sides with publishers

[–] saze@feddit.uk 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hot take but I blame gamers stuffing the pockets of these sort of publishers by lapping up early access and pre orders. It gives publishers no incentive whatsoever to change their ways because they still have the only thing they truly care about: money.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's absolutely the gamers. They're in a competition with Apple fans to see who will purchase literally anything a company makes. Patient gamers is where it's at. Buy the good games a few years after release with all the bugs fixed, extra content, and on sale.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago

with the enormous amount of old games available for trivial cost, and games like terraria, stardew valley, and deep rock galactic which cost less than a AAA title and the devs just sort of refuse to stop updating their game for free, we're at a point where dropping 70 dollars on a game is just self harm.

[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

why place the blame on the millions of people buying the games instead of the few dozen companies making the games? do you think it’s easier to get a million people to change?

[–] saze@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Doesn't matter what is easier or the numbers involved. Fact is power lies in the money spent by millions funneled to a dozen, making them so potent. Millions don't even need to change their ways, even a significant minority can start making bottom lines bleed like a mf.

[–] automaticdoor75@sopuli.xyz 12 points 11 months ago

Comedian Frank Caliendo used to do an impression of John Madden:

"You know what I'm thankful for? Kids who pay sixty bucks each year for what is basically the same video game. A-heh-heh-heh, cha-ching!"

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

It's even worse when Bethesda does it because they split the modding community. LE, SE and AE are not compatible with each other's mods.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] balderdash9@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 months ago

I actually moved the artist's information to the middle of the image so that I didn't crop it out. So thank you ;)

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

But but but! The next CoD has different gun skins! That makes it a completely different game that isn't like the last game at all! /s

[–] aCatNamedVirtute@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Death by snu snu.