Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'
Dwarf Fortress creator blasts execs behind brutal industry layoffs: 'I think they're horrible… greedy, greedy people'
Tarn Adams doesn't mince words when it comes to the dire state of the games industry.
Welcome to capitalism? The growth cannot stop or we will descend into war
Life is just one big clicker. What is life if the numbers don’t go up?
Blasting is okay, so long as no one got slammed. Decorum demands we draw a line somewhere!
Modern media is so savage using such language such as "slammed" "destroyed" etc.
Dwarf Fortress Devs Annihilated Execs
Typically the comments are merely somewhat critical. But it gets clicks. And ad revenue makes the world go round.
Wow PCG article destroyed by lemmy user
What grotesquerie have our hands wrought?
I just want the macOS version of DF Steam. I bought that like two years ago when it came out to support.
All the layoffs were inevitable with the extremely obvious bubble in any computer related jobs. Same as dotcom bubble with a bunch of superfluous hires for superfluous tasks and ridiculous budgets that were not going to pan out. So yes now we'll have tons of unemployed programmers and art departments from companies overhiring for at least a decade.
I love dwarf fortress, but it easy to throw stones when your company consists of two people.
It's a bit more than that with Kitfox involved, but I don't see why that makes him wrong. Greed kills a ton of creativity in games. Not just layoffs but over aggressive monetization and fear of innovation.
there's a reason his company is still two people dawg.
Doesn't make Tarn wrong.
I feel it's important to note that the brothers worked on this game for nearly twenty years, giving it away for free.
I know little about the game industry. I saw one person say it’s because of the high interest rates. Games cost so much to produce, they have to borrow most of it and the rates have screwed them.
No idea if thats true.