Why Proposing Tip Jars For Mainstream Videogames Is Either Stupid Or Malicious (The Jimquisition)
Added 2024-04-15 13:31:40 +0000 UTCFormer Blizzard president Mike Ybarra thinks big budget games should offer players the ability to add a tip on top of already spending $70. For a number of reasons it's dumb to add tipping to big corporate games, but when it's been suggested by a literal corporate leader, the whole proposal seems more sinister than stupid.
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I'm trying to think if it would legal and ethical for a publisher to create a non-profit subsidiary, for each game it publishes, exclusively for the purpose of tipping the dev team. On the face of it, everyone's a winner: the non-profit aspect would mean that the parent company couldn't take a cut so the devs would get potentially a tidy boost to their income and, from the cynical c-[SKELETON WARRIORS] perspective, it would be easy and cheap to do, fantastic PR (which they could do with a lot of these days) and, here's why I'm iffy on the ethics... it could disincentivise unionisation since it'd be the easiest thing in the world to make go away in retaliation. The other snag would be the potential to see them do exactly what Steph describes the hospitality industry in the US doing so the games media would need to really hold their feet to the fire on promises that base salaries would be unaffected to ensure this was a genuine, crowdfunded bonus.
Kav
2024-04-18 15:07:22 +0000 UTCI seriously hope that tiktok where the landlord thought they should be tipped was a joke. Landlords are such parasites. Tipping is BS to begin with, companies should simply pay their workers a living wage! Even thinking that we should be handing more money to these publishers is delusional. Mike Ybarra is a rich scumbag. Why doesn't he just take a pay reduction so his workers can get paid more? Oh wait he never will. Burn in hell Mike.
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2024-04-16 03:40:40 +0000 UTC
