r/gaming • u/CiabattaKatsuie Console • Oct 01 '24

The games industry is undergoing a 'generational change,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney: 'A lot of games are released with high budgets, and they're not selling'

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/the-games-industry-is-undergoing-a-generational-change-says-epic-ceo-tim-sweeney-a-lot-of-games-are-released-with-high-budgets-and-theyre-not-selling/

Tim Sweeney apparently thinks big budget games fail because... They aren't social enough? I personally feel that this is BS, but what do you guys think? Is there a trend to support his comments?

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u/xSlippyFistx Oct 02 '24

I don’t even think you have to learn it in an Econ class to understand it’s unsustainable. Just have a job that discusses financial goals and just experience it for yourself. I work for a consulting firm I just look at how my company will have projected revenue and profits for the business. It’s always an increase in profits. Even if we miss by a few million which is still an improvement from last year but NOT QUITE the projected value, we get a round of layoffs. It’s absolutely unsustainable. You’d think when if we were to smash the projected values we all get nice raises or bonuses right? Naw but the big wigs at top sure do. We get raises that don’t even keep up with inflation. The jobs are going to campus hires and offshores like India to squeeze that extra bit of profit every year so forget about quality of service at that point.

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u/Far_Associate9859 Oct 02 '24

That's because they don't view layoffs as a big deal. Employees are just a resource to them - a nob you turn up and down. Keeping it turned on decreases profit (you pay your employees), so if the profit didn't explode from keeping it where it was, you just turn the nob down and voilà, your profits just increased (making sure 50% of your workforce outputs the same as 100% of your workforce is a job for middle management)

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u/bookoocash Oct 02 '24

Every sales job I had, they would set quotas or sales goals for us. We would reach them and feel good. The next month, the goal posts are shifted up. Even though we were consistently selling good from the start, we keep needing to sell more and more. At a certain point, a small city, serviced by multiple stores and locations, only has so many people who would want what we were selling. Eventually the well dries a bit, but even then we were staying steady. It was never enough for them.

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u/xSlippyFistx Oct 02 '24

Yeah when I worked retail there was a goal of credit card applications. It was essentially if the store didn’t get x amount of credit card apps every day, it would look bad for the stores performance. I always wondered, what if we completed the goal everyday? Eventually the small city would run out of people to apply when EVERYONE had a card. Then what? Are we failing as a store because every single customer that comes in to buy things is putting it on their store credit card and we can’t get any more applications?

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u/Mr_hacker_fire PC Oct 03 '24

Leathal Company in a nutshell