Several factors have come together to make this an incredibly tumultuous time for video game developers, and could have lasting effects on the industry.
“It’s exclusively the workers fault that their employers are shitheels”
You can acknowledge that workers need to do more to better their own working conditions without placing all the blame on them. The publishers have as much free will as the developers, they choose to be awful as much as developers choose to work for them. And they have a lot more power to influence change.
You really live in a truly binary world, don’t you? Either it’s all one thing or it’s all another.
No, it’s not likely that mega-corporations are suddenly going to magically decide to be okay guys. Yes, it’s mostly likely going to take a great deal of communication and organization of workers and/or government intervention to make things better.
That does not preclude that the people running those mega-corporations made that choice. It is not a forgone conclusion that they are going to be shitheels. They are specifically making that choice. Believing otherwise removes that onus from them, and whatever blame can be laid at their feet.
If you want to live in a black and white world, and just assume that everything as a good or bad trait, that everything has a yes or no answer, feel free. But just know that you are not living in reality, but some fantasy you have created to try and explain the world away.
“It’s exclusively the workers fault that their employers are shitheels”
You can acknowledge that workers need to do more to better their own working conditions without placing all the blame on them. The publishers have as much free will as the developers, they choose to be awful as much as developers choose to work for them. And they have a lot more power to influence change.
Expecting a company to do anything for you without being forced is naive.
Yet we have armies of bootlickers hoping for it…
You really live in a truly binary world, don’t you? Either it’s all one thing or it’s all another.
No, it’s not likely that mega-corporations are suddenly going to magically decide to be okay guys. Yes, it’s mostly likely going to take a great deal of communication and organization of workers and/or government intervention to make things better.
That does not preclude that the people running those mega-corporations made that choice. It is not a forgone conclusion that they are going to be shitheels. They are specifically making that choice. Believing otherwise removes that onus from them, and whatever blame can be laid at their feet.
If you want to live in a black and white world, and just assume that everything as a good or bad trait, that everything has a yes or no answer, feel free. But just know that you are not living in reality, but some fantasy you have created to try and explain the world away.
The bootlickers would be the people denying the responsibility of the company… Maybe read your comment again with that thought in mind.
shallow understanding of how bootlickers operate.
so much work to be done…
Shallow ability to state your stance more like. Don’t blame other people because you can’t express your thoughts.