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Mix. posted:just do what xiv does and add a bunch of skimpy outfits for the men too, problem solved Lost ark has beefcake outfits for the male classes, they're just not default gear like the cheesecake for many of the ladies. It's dumb, but it's like they just set all the body sliders to 200% in character creation and locked them so you get martial artists running around in six inch heels and the like.
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Studio posted:This didn't happen. They were removing some of the uh, more than inappropriate paintings (like the one of the intern, it's been posted here before), and players thought they'd also remove skimpy transmogs. Nothing ever popped up on the PTR showing any sort of sexy armor culling, unlike the paintings. The patch also removed a bunch of the horniest joke and flirt emotes, as well as the /spit emote (supposedly because someone created a sub-mod on Burning Crusade Classic that made you automatically spam it at anyone who was riding the mount from the collector’s edition).
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I thought they removed /spit because everyone was doing it in front of Afrasiabi's self-insert thing
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:I thought they removed /spit because everyone was doing it in front of Afrasiabi's self-insert thing There were a lot of things there Several of them were okay but also nothing more than rearranging furniture on little st James island
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Reset the clock: https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1501663965922971648 https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1501664688433737733 Big 'the rules don't say that a dog can't play' energy.
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Soonmot posted:The game also has some skimpy stuff for male characters too. They even recently added more in Endwalker! 
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I feel like this is a new low for Square-Enix's non-mobile division. https://twitter.com/TangoBun/status/1501898430284656643 https://twitter.com/TangoBun/status/1502063477812248576 According to people elsewhere, mithril expires in 5 months, just to add insult to injury. What a wild choice of game to drop this bomb on. claw game handjob fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Mar 11, 2022 |
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secretly best girl posted:I feel like this is a new low for Square-Enix's non-mobile division. Wow, I wanted to get that game because it would be cute as gently caress to play with the kids, but seeing that bullshit? No thanks.
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CodfishCartographer posted:https://twitter.com/Vivi_Flynn/status/1502081727254122503?t=luV7hA81XDhKDH_c04LHtg&s=19 I can't wait for the Sterling video on this poo poo E: also that is one legendarily terrible battlepass, zero rewards for whole blocks of levels right at the start Somfin fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Mar 12, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/iggymaid/status/1502662994311925762?s=21 A thread. We don’t hear about the Japanese side of things but it kinda sucks to know that this is a problem everywhere no matter what
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Most of the reviews go back to 2012-2016, but still a bummer that the working conditions were like that back then. And when you see something as busted as Elden Ring's release, you have to wonder how much of it is down to shoddy workplace conditions. For reference, Dark Souls 1 came out in 2011 (PC 2012), and Dark Souls 3 in 2016.
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DC Murderverse posted:https://twitter.com/iggymaid/status/1502662994311925762?s=21 Yeah, those job postings have been making the rounds for a while now. I hope there's some actual reporting done on it, interviewing Fromsoft employees or others in the Japanese game dev industry. It sounds real lovely but I'm also hesitant to make a fuss based on screenshots I can't read translated by internet strangers. Like, its pretty well established that Japan is notorious for unpaid overtime and a glass ceiling for women so its very believable, but I want to base this on more than a vtuber's twitter. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 13:06 on Mar 13, 2022 |
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CuddleCryptid posted:Shout out to the guy who had to comb through Sony's policies for this trial to make sure they didn't do the shockingly common thing of having sexism.txt written plainly somewhere in their legalese. Fees fees fees baby trebles all round 
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DC Murderverse posted:https://twitter.com/iggymaid/status/1502662994311925762?s=21 Japanese work culture sucks really bad for mental or physical state of people in general, so not that surprising it also exists in their gaming companies, the big story is if the things that ubi and blizz stuff exists with all the sexual harassment and frat boy culture
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DC Murderverse posted:https://twitter.com/iggymaid/status/1502662994311925762?s=21 There is always bias with these things due to the voluntary survey method but looking around the websites that I can find information on it seems that this price point is for the absolute entry level and when taken on average the wages of developers tends to be roughly double that if not more. It's still not good to pay $29k to someone right out of college, especially if you are headquartered in Tokyo, but it's not like every developer is barely scraping by.
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I was looking at the average wage for artist jobs in the UK and was laughing, because "suggested" minimum wage" for juniors was about 12k higher than i usually see it offered for when looking across multiple studios. So i'd guess its not entirely just "oh the only people doing this are entry level" because even the seniors were barely making above suggested junior level for the last few places i worked.
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dogstile posted:So i'd guess its not entirely just "oh the only people doing this are entry level" because even the seniors were barely making above suggested junior level for the last few places i worked. From experience, there's also that in most cases if you started a company as a junior, no matter how many promotions you go through your salary in the end will still be very significantly less than if you came to that company as a senior. There's a reason most game companies try to sneak in "can't discuss salaries" into their contracts. Falcorum fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Mar 14, 2022 |
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next up for toxic work environment, Moon Studios (ORI games) https://venturebeat.com/2022/03/18/despite-its-beautiful-ori-games-moon-studio-is-called-an-oppressive-place-to-work/ 
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CodfishCartographer posted:https://twitter.com/Vivi_Flynn/status/1502081727254122503?t=luV7hA81XDhKDH_c04LHtg&s=19 lol
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haldolium posted:next up for toxic work environment, Moon Studios (ORI games) Man 
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And another bunch of abuse accusations surfaced today extending to Robin Hunicke and Annapurna (indirectly) from a story initially meant to cover already known stories about some indie devs https://www.gamedeveloper.com/culture/funomena-co-founder-robin-hunicke-accused-of-workplace-emotional-abuse original PMG video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDPzZkx0cPs&t=1372s quote:In one instance, Hunicke allegedly said "[This employee] is struggling with their sexuality right now, so it makes sense that they're a little bit distracted." This apparently happened in a meeting with other co-workers.
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haldolium posted:next up for toxic work environment, Moon Studios (ORI games) Apparently MS was aware of it which is why they stopped publishing their games: https://wccftech.com/ori-moon-studios-oppressive-work-culture-microsoft-split/
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haldolium posted:next up for toxic work environment, Moon Studios (ORI games)
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Original_Z posted:Apparently MS was aware of it which is why they stopped publishing their games: It's kinda amazing that Microsoft apparently genuinely does care about toxic workplace issues considering their reputation for their own problems. Then again, maybe that's why, learning the problems of having a company at war with itself the hard way.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's kinda amazing that Microsoft apparently genuinely does care about toxic workplace issues considering their reputation for their own problems. Then again, maybe that's why, learning the problems of having a company at war with itself the hard way. While I'm not going to read a Dean Takahashi article, I'd say they care about bad PR, just like any other company.
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It's a long article, once you get past the corporate statement and look at the individual developers speaking out about their experiences, it gets much clearer. There's so many quotes I can pull, I had to edit it down. quote:Multiple people observed that Mahler would hire talented people to work at Moon Studio. When he introduced them, however, he revealed his own insecurities. He felt a need to trash the games that they worked on and point out why they were “poo poo games,” regardless of the stature or size of the studio that the workers came from. quote:“I think one of the worst things about the studio is that it was very toxic. Never mind how they treat each other. It’s how they treat other members of the studio,” said one game developer. “They argue with each other, using incredibly aggressive, vile, toxic language in the whole company group chat. It’s like you have a big office and like having a massive shouting match with the head of the company.” quote:The detachment that is possible in online conversations and audio chats over Skype enabled the founders to act more critical and abusive, developers alleged. It’s akin to how people behave on Twitter, where they feel more empowered to speak their minds and cut down others with short criticisms, multiple workers noted.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's kinda amazing that Microsoft apparently genuinely does care about toxic workplace issues considering their reputation for their own problems. Then again, maybe that's why, learning the problems of having a company at war with itself the hard way. The ABK mess is proof enough that even if you're a soulless capitalist who doesn't care at all about the individual well-being of workers, letting your offices turn into a festering cesspool is a terrible idea because it's both extremely bad press if it goes public and is actively damaging to your ability to output products that make money. It also dramatically accelerates the progress of things you, the company, probably don't want, like unionization efforts.
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Here are a few more indie studios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDPzZkx0cPs
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Original_Z posted:Here are a few more indie studios: scroll up, chief: haldolium posted:original PMG video
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Kanos posted:The ABK mess is proof enough that even if you're a soulless capitalist who doesn't care at all about the individual well-being of workers, letting your offices turn into a festering cesspool is a terrible idea because it's both extremely bad press if it goes public and is actively damaging to your ability to output products that make money. It also dramatically accelerates the progress of things you, the company, probably don't want, like unionization efforts. Yeah, and it sounds like in some cases like in ABK it only gets that bad when it goes all the way to to the top. Might also be a culture thing too. Microsoft isn't just making entertainment products, they make all kinds of poo poo that comes under serious business products for serious business people. They can put up with some necessary frippery from the people who make the games, but turning offices into pub crawls isn't something that looks good when you've also got the brand as the definition of boring omnipresent business software that needs to work. When you're already keeping an eye on your employees' behaviour with an often arbitrary standard of professionalism, it's probably not hard to punish discrimination along with that.
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