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'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs (www.pcgamer.com)

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[+] [email protected] -188 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Please do not tell me that anyone is surprised that a triple A game studio laid off most of their employees as a reward for a job well done.

Please. Please tell me everyone has figured out that nearly all large game dev companies are pure fucking evil.

EDIT: Welp, thats what I get for making an ill informed post after 36 hours on the road before passing out in my motel, yep, I probably should have read the article.

[-] [email protected] 104 points 1 year ago

I guess this is reddit and you don't know how to read past the headlines?

[-] [email protected] 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They didn't even read the headline.

The headline clearly says that Hasbro (owners of WotC/D&D) did layoffs, not Larian Studios (creators of Balder's Gate 3).

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Listen, we all know gamers can't read. What did you expect? /s

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This but unironically.

[+] [email protected] -14 points 1 year ago

The headline here on lemmy is unreadable gibberish with BG3 in the title. It could as well be

Layoff 5blagagasjjee Swen shgrwaaahahaaaa Baldurs Gate 3 dacghgfrtf gone. Click here for ads.

So i get where he's coming from. On the other hand, once you start reading the ads with some content in between it becomes clear immediately that this is about the IP holder, not the game studio.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...is that an attempt at sarcasm or something?

'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs

Same Lemmy title as the article. You know exactly who's talking ("CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke"), about whom ("the D&D team he initially worked with"), what happened to them ("is gone") and who is to blame ("due to Hasbro layoffs").

As far as titles go, it's pretty good at telling you exactly what the actual article is about. Sure, you may need basic knowledge about how a licenced product works, and that BG3 is under the D&D licence. It would be rather hard to fit all that in a title.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I'm kinda with you on that, without knowing that Hasbro doesn't own Larian this can be misread.

But I guess that the overly angry tone made people quite upset about your comment

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

...and you should read more than the headline, then you'd know that

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe they just exhausted their reading quota for today, it's a pretty long headline, after all

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