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This is why we need to have 90 dollar games! /s

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Bullshit like this is why our industry is a mess, Nintendo may be greedy fucks but their code is good because the same dudes have been working there since the fucken 80s.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, if you want to emulate a corporate ethos, I don't think Japan should be the benchmark, either...

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their crunch culture is def bad (they’re going to kill Sakurai one day), but there is quite a few things they do right. They don’t lay people off and their executives take accountability. Iwata took a significant pay cut when the Wii U flopped.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They can't lay people off, so they just put them in a room with no work to do until they get so bored that they quit. It's the same thing but different.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’ll take my chances with the boredom room.

[–] Caesium@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

forreal I write as a hobby and I spend as much free time at work sticking it to the boss by writing lol. if they literally handed me a room with little stimuli and let me bring my notebook in I'd be living

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just making sure you realize the company would have the copyright for anything you create while on the clock....

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Fuck, well, publish it as another light novel. I'm sure they'll quit soon."

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Ah your next novel is done? Make sure noone reads it, it would diminish the value of the tax-writeoff when we delete it.

You wouldn't have a notebook. Any and all stimuli would be banned as the purpose is making your experience horrible.

Also, you get incredibly mundane tasks as well. Maybe you'll get a couple sheets of random symbols and are tasked to count a certain letter. And if you don't do this task you can be laid off for underperforming.

[–] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Exactly, I would start taking naps and watch movies. You can't bore or shame me into quitting, the second I know it's a game, I will be breaking a b**** lol

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

Whatever you do, please don't throw me in the ~~briar patch~~ boredom room!

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Why would I quit my dream job? Getting paid so sit doing nothing is my life long goal.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In Japan, the barrier to firing workers is much higher than in many other places. Even layoffs for financial reasons are tough and can be challenged. This is one reason companies sit on hordes of cash here is to weather financial issues, but it also has negative economic impacts as well. That said, Nintendo are a bunch of greedy cunts IMO, and I try never to buy anything new from them anymore (just buying used where they don't get a cut).

[–] Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 month ago

In the US the barrier to firing workers is much lower than in other countries. Even layoffs for purely arbitrary or personal reasons are easy and hard to challenge in courts. This is one of the reasons companies have little free capital and choose to lay off many workers as soon as the market looks to be turning. But it also has positive economic impacts as well. That said, EA are a bunch of greedy cunts, and I try never to buy anything new from them anymore (just buying used where they don't get a cut, if they released any games worth owning).

[–] pulido@lemmings.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think a lot of what comes out of Japan is better than the West because they haven't given up their idea of the company man.

Like it or not, having to switch jobs every few years is going to impact your performance.

Most of you have no idea how much easier it is to process information when you accept that you'll be doing it the same way for decades.

[–] desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

at least the west is starting to acknowledge the torturous monotony of doing the same job for decades.

[–] pulido@lemmings.world 4 points 1 month ago

Lots of people prefer the comfort of familiarity.