“Greed is not the issue here” - actual dragon sitting on literal pile of gold.
It’s probably worth highlighting that, despite the clickbait headline, this guy has not been affiliated with Sony or Playstation for almost twenty years, and these days he’s mostly an investor on multiple middleware and outsourcing videogame-adjacent companies.
Also, to his credit, what he’s actually saying is that he’s optimistic that people and the industry will rebound fairly quickly and may need to bridge themselves over to the next gig somehow. The other thing he apparently proposes is “go lay on a beach somewhere”. But he’s not saying that you should go be an Uber driver if you lost your games industry job, he’s saying it’s likely that your games industry skillset will remain valuable and you’ll find something else soon-ish.
I hate that media keeps making me do this and defend people I disagree with. I think there’s an interesting debate here about whether the gig-fire-hire-repeat flow of the games industry is good or sustainable, and about what alternatives there are. But if you go and clickbait this hard I’m kinda forced to point that out first and now we’re all arguing about what was said and not about the underlying issue.
Thank you for pointing that out. I don’t think his opinion a wrong on a fundamental level, but I agree that his choice of words makes him seem more depreciative than his intent is.
Lemmy in a nutshell. In like one post. Print it out, hang it on the wall, you never need to log in again.
Christ what a soulless anti human, and these people infest and run AAA companies. Would explain the rot behind those companies for the last 2 decades.
drive an Uber or whatever, go off to find a cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year.
Shockingly tone-deaf.
When I was laid off, my savings were running very low after about 3 months until I was able to get another job.
Absolutely no way I would be able to take a year off to go to the beach. It’s like he doesn’t realize we all aren’t CEOs.
cheap place to live and go to the beach for a year.
Cheap place… Lol
Close to the beach!? LMFAO
This ghoul isn’t even from our reality and they’re trying to tell us to chill out. Stick to your own dimension where housing is affordable, especially with any proximity to a beach…
What? Don’t you all have a beach house and million in the bank?
What a piece of shit.
It’s people like this asshat the reason why I rarely play an AAA game anymore and the few I play are always the pirated version.
You’d be misplacing that anger. He hasn’t been part of a AAA studio or publisher in decades, and as far as I can tell his last venture involved investing in and shutting down some edutainment dev in Malta.
I guess “money guy for a bunch of middleware companies” didn’t get nearly as many clicks as “exSONY BOSS PLAYSTATION MAN”.
Even if he isn’t part of the gaming industry, we can’t pretend he’s the only one thinking like this (hence my comment “people like this asshat”). This kind of assholery is the reason the AAA industry is like this.
Corporate greed is a reason. But it’s not the only one. The other reason is they’re not making games people want to play. Look at Dustborn and Concord.
Sony’s EX president is the one who should be driving ubers.
This is the opening to John Scalzi’s Starter Villain. Great book for anyone interested in a humorous look at late stage capitalist supervillains.
When was the last time he was even in charge of anything? Who cares what his opinion is? He should fuck all the way off.
Oh thank goodness…
People are going to start taking out the guillotines…
