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Back in the early 2010s, EA and Ubisoft were considered the worst gaming studios because they pushed "loot crate" mechanics. Now, Activision-Blizzard has not on
by afrcnc 4y ago
Back in the early 2010s, EA and Ubisoft were considered the worst gaming studios because they pushed "loot crate" mechanics. Now, Activision-Blizzard has not only developed some of the most expensive stores in any game, but they almost always deliver half-finished games and abuse their employees in the process, while EA and Ubisoft are considered some of the best places to work in the gaming industry. I think this company needs a boycott really bad to put it back on the good path.
- oblio 4y ago> EA and Ubisoft are considered some of the best places to work in the gaming industry Oh, really? I haven't followed this kind of stuff in a while. So they're good now? How would they rank for software development, in general? Game studios are notoriously subpar when you start comparing them to FAANG, big enterprise sotware development shops, etc.
- bartread 4y ago> Game studios are notoriously subpar when you start comparing them to FAANG, big enterprise sotware development shops, etc. I don't think this has changed substantially. It's supply and demand: lots of people want to build games for the sake of building games. At least in theory it sounds more exciting than maintaining whatever microservice for a FAANG. So, because there's a lot more supply than demand, they get paid less.
- wetpaws 4y agoUnisoft is an absolute shitfest internally. EA on other hand was always a good place to work, despite being an plague of the gaming industry on itself. Doing good things and being a good place to work are not necessary the same thing.
- bsenftner 4y agoNo, they just started paying PR firms when their deserved reputation started causing brand new graduates (their core hire) to pass on their job offers. The entire game industry is a massive shit show of employee abuse.