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Kirun
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LMAO. Best I can do is a hate crime for talking about Jews.
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OU Ariakas
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She is actually saying all the right things; however, as someone that has worked exclusively for Fortune 500 companies my entire career, they say that they want to increase agility and decrease red tape but there is always a huge mountain of bureaucracy that decisions necessarily must go through in these giant organizations. The comment about FIFTEEN levels of management is telling and cutting that by 2/3rd or 4/5th sounds like a big step in the right direction.
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Caeden
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Yeah. I got no problems with what she said. Right now I am 3 levels from the number 2 in my company and have them on text. It makes for fantastic agility.
I think Xbox is going to still end up with SteamBox X at the end of the day- but that’s probably a good strategy.
I think Xbox is going to still end up with SteamBox X at the end of the day- but that’s probably a good strategy.
spronk
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i bet a lot of those layers are also inclusiveness and diversity and shit like that, which is why you end up with all characters looking like ugly fat lesbians
until they get rid of people who only like to tell you NO instead of actually coming up with new ideas, big corpos like msft/google/facebook are fucked
until they get rid of people who only like to tell you NO instead of actually coming up with new ideas, big corpos like msft/google/facebook are fucked
Cybsled
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Depends on the company, but it usually boils down to people directly reporting to someone over them. So maybe you have a team leader, who reports to a manager, who reports to a senior manager, who reports to a director and then you get various shades of VPs and executives. Each role in theory has been delegated some responsibility from the tier above them.
I guess it could be a double edged sword in theory unless they simultaneously identified low value work things they don’t need, otherwise they’re saddling those work things on a smaller team because they still need to get done
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Utnayan
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A 2hour long game wouldn't have many concurrent users for a fairly obvious reason, by the time more people buy and play the early ones are already done. CCU doesn't mean much for smaller single player games, especially the ones that weren't popular from being by a famous person or some other shit. Look at a game like Undertale, with its all time peak of only 11k players. Yet estimations put it at around 8m sales. It just didn't release with big fanfare and the game was decently short that as the word of mouth spread, most people were already done with it.
Obviously the scale is different but CCU and sales aren't necessarily linked together. Another interesting case is Terraria. Estimated 30m sales, released to a middling 38k peak(still good but not crazy compared to lifetime sales), 9 years later hit a 580k CCU peak when they released their massive 1.4 patch.
Gavinmad
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Right sorry I thought it was single, it's 2 player coop though right? And with no replayability and less than 2hours of content and no matchmaking so it's friendslop. Still doesn't change that by the time NA gets the game, EUs finished it and by the time asia gets it, NA is done, so it just kills CCU numbers regardless.
Haus
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It's funny that I saw this tweet.... then saw no fewer than 3 tweets from game studios thanking MS for having them as part of XBOX, but excited to be getting back "out on their own". heh
Unrelated, but related to the PS front :
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