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Privately-owned companies with no ties to venture capitalists are just plain better than corpos that worry too much about "line go up".

Facts.

People seem to forget their gaming history. William SRD has an entire channel dedicated to incredibly broken, brain dead, pushed out the door for a quick buck D&D games.

It's a MASSIVE oversaturation of everything in the gaming industry. Plenty of people play games, but there are far too much product for the consumer to buy. Or, there's far too little of good products that generate any sort of money to the development teams. 99% of all game projects either die on the vine or don't make any money at launch.

The same logic goes for music, art, Hollywood, writing, books, pretty much any sort of creative role.

If you're still getting an education, don't go into the gaming industry. Don't be a musician. Don't be an artist. Don't be a writer. Don't be a Twitch streamer or YouTuber.

If you do it as a hobby, and it happens to work out, so be it. Or, if you're just doing it because you enjoy it in your spare time, that's fine, too. But, if it's your goal as the primary means to make money, don't be disappointed when it doesn't work out. You can't reliably work in oversaturated industries.

If you're trying to be a programmer and don't find a job in the gaming industry, go find some other development job that is in a more mundane industry. There's plenty of companies that better respect their employees than the fucking gaming industry.

Mergers.

Stop telling me what to do! You're not my mom.

Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.

Vote with your wallet! Don't eat in protest!

Exactly. Rocksteady was bought by WB. Therefore, it no longer exists, except as a name.

Companies don't die. They just get bought and disappear into the corporate blob of flesh.

To be fair, taking in Patreon money and creating a paid mod that makes the game look like Pokemon is already a pretty shitty move, and deserves all the flak the author is getting.

Operations like this don't have a single engineer. The more complex the project, the higher the risk of complications and outages. It's not a matter of "oh, just think harder about your changes".

Ask me how I know...

One, this is just my favorites list, not every album I've listened to. And I've listened to my playlists on random quite a few times over the years.

Two, I don't listen to pop music, so the average is probably closer to 4-5 minutes per song. (About 362 hrs of music on the playlist, if you must know.)

Three, you can't just plug in a yearly rate, convert it to hours, and use it in any meaningful way.

well this is probably PR as there is no such system nor it can be made that can have 100% uptime.

Five-nines is entirely possible with enough resources and competent outage-minded engineers.

Wired used to have actual journalists. How far they have fallen...