How Game Companies Abuse Passion (The Jimquisition)

I believe it is called Wargroove.

I was thinking that since AAA gaming companies say that PASSION should be enough instead of offering proper financial compensation, why do they work so hard against piracy and for painfully invasive DRM? I mean are these companies passionate about creating game? If so, it should not matter if they get paid as long as the final project is good. right?

Lilibean

"Growing trend", dude, people working on the pyramids had the same issues. "The way you're working, it's like you aren't fully invested in the divinity of our pharaoh Khufu."

GadgetBlues

Wah, the games in the video aren't labeled again :(

Gargaj

I've worked in fast food for 20 years now, usually on the overnight where you don't even get a set break (or any break, because day shifters are filthy animals 9/10 times and leave heaped up messes it's on your head to clean). In that 20 years at various jobs in various locations and franchises I have noticed a growing trend of 'devotion'. Which is the passion argument hammered into a 'brand loyalty' umbrella. Yes, if you don't want to cover a shift they don't have anyone for, you're just not 'devoted'. If you don't want to go pick up all the trash the last shift left stuffed beside the dumpster so the animals got in it you're 'refusing to do your part for the team'. And if you dare ask for time and a half or some other kind of compensation to your minimum wage job when they're all but begging you to come in and fill a gap in the lines after you've already put in more than a solid week, you're 'just not wanting to work for us' or 'you just don't care do you?'. All this... for literally a wage that says 'we would pay you less if the law didn't say this is as low as we can pay you'. Yeah, feel my loyalty. Oh and I've been told I'll never get a raise since my shift doesn't justify it since the overnight doesn't make enough money. So regardless how much work I do, I'll never get a nickel more than minimum wage. But I'm supposed to work myself to death for this company because they want people with 'job devotion'. And if you don't have it, no matter how hard you work, you're a bad person, I guess.

Trevor Bond

When unpaid internships became "a thing", this whole thing just started to roll downhill. Even medieval apprentices could expect room and board while they learned their trade; now it's like there's an expectation of a permanent class of people living with their parents, some trying to pay off student loans, grinding away to build up "exposure" and "experience" for a gravy train that never arrives and an "adult" life that never develops. What the hell?! It feels like you used to do something well and get paid for it; now you do something well and beg for people to like and subscribe, or support you on Patreon, or hope the army of middlemen see fit to give you a tiny percentage of the revenue from ads. (Or any of a hundred other messy, weasel-y, self-perpetuating schemes.)

Kraken

Ugh that sucks about Chucklefish, I am rather fond of Stardew Valley. Thank god for you good sir indeed.

kesseldarkfire

As someone with Asperger's, Alex St John can fucking eat shit and burn in hell. I've never felt more personally sickened and offended when I saw the bullshit he was spouting about people with AS, it's exactly that mindset that enables shitty organizations like Autism Speaks to promote the dangerous notion that "autism is like a horrible disease"(can't believe Sesame Street of all things partnered up with those vile fuckers).

RedBedroomRecords

What's the game at 7:55?

Jono Charles Davey