The absolute state of AAA video games

The absolute state of AAA video games

He's a CEO, retard.

Have the guys who pay the bills for the companies ever played games?

Toys are for children bud, I'm a CEO

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He’s just there to give the supplies and okay things to the actual higher ups in charge of the game development

Just found out the janitor at Rockstar HQ isn't a gamer. Shan't be buying GTA 6.

Just me, as a fan of professional wrestling, you do not want your owners to be marks for the business like Tony Khan

Dr Pavel, I'm CEO

this thread AGAIN

business man is not customer of his own business, more news at 11.

Here's a CEO

All anons here wouldn’t be playing videogames either if they got the kind of money that guy has unless they’re not motivated to do anything in life. Vidya is a poorfag hobby.

Todd Hollenshead was the CEO of id Software

should tech company CEOs come outside the field?

bro has a family three kids and a wife, works out. Why consume when you can create? Passively? Don't tell me you fall for the man of the people political bullshit?

with the amount of shitposting here you can't convince me people actually have time to play games

"i play with my Barbie dolls everyday" CEO of Mattel

He’s just like me! I won’t be playing (or buying) it either!

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Create

Lol.

Raping children is his hobby, most likely.

reminder that dan houser left the company, so anyone hoping it will be RDR2 with cars is going to be disappointed

"I manage the whole company"

"No, I don't read books about managing or go for courses."

"I'm the best candidate because I spend my time playing video games all the time"

Company dies

"Whyyyyyyy????? I play video games!! I'm clearly the best candidate!!!"

Yawn, wake me up when their designers don't play video games.

... and that's a bad thing

didn't play even a single video game in his entire life

single-handedly built a gaming behemoth.

If i was in charge of a company making video games I would actually try to earn my pay by learning about video games. These people are parasites and the sooner they are removed from the industry the better.

Anon Babbletards should be CEOs

Well, that's the problem - he's a businessman, that's why the game will be hot garbage - he doesn't get his own product & won't employ people who get it either.

This will fail, hard, and only astroturfing & bribery will keep them afloat, like BG3 & TLOU2

Take-Two is a holding company. Rockstar Gamers is a subsidiary of that holding company. Rockstar is lead by Sam Houser who most certainly plays games.
Hope this helps.

Gaben does

In February 2020, Rockstar Games's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, announced Houser's resignation from Rockstar Games. He left Rockstar on 11 March 2020, following an extended break in 2019.

hes not a gamer but guess what he (((is))), you have one guess. also he ruined Civ 7

it's a binary choice

either he never plays video games

or he games 24/7 in his mom's basement

What's your IQ? Genuine question btw.

Silly cat that's Dan not Sam.

also he ruined Civ 7

Explain.

You're mixing up the brothers, bro. Dan Houser peaced out in 2020, yeah, but Sam Houser's still at Rockstar as president. Dan was more of the writer/narrative guy (RDR2's juicy dialogue? That was him), while Sam handles the business and big picture stuff. So technically you're correct about Dan, wrong about who's still steering the ship.

I was at a conference with him a year ago, he presented something to my team (I work at zynga)
one of my coworkers asked him about his favorite game all time, he said:
"I dont play videogames, videogames are a waste of time"
he said this to a room of 500 of his workers

he made it release early and charge for week one DLC and plus more for leaders and all sorts of bullshit. The game flopped huge and more people play Civ 5 and 6 than 7 currently, six months after it released. They underestimated how intelligent civ players are as far as dirty business tactics and the game is doomed.

Yeah, this is like learning the CEO of McDonalds doesn't eat that garbage he serves to american cattle

So Houser ultimately answers to a guy who doesn't play video games. If Strauss decides that GTA 7 will release in 2028 and feature a trans protagonist, it will happen and Houser can either make it happen or go find other employment.

especially rockstar movie games, maybe if the people working on them played less games they be less shit

Game companies don't need business people around
They are parasites

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He should be

Yeah. DAN Houser. His Brother

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Lol, lmao

i think thats why the other brother left, go start a company just incase we get kiked

no idea what he says to Rs employees
when he comes to our offices we are all forced to work out with him, hundreds of people
he wont enter any room without a full bowl of strawberries in it, we call them straussberries because he gets annoyed if he doesn't see them
I wish I was kidding

Take-two owns Firaxis. (((Zelnick))) is the CEO of take-two.

Game companies don't need business people around

studios with thousands of employees don't need funding and management

Loving every laugh

No it isn't you fucking retard. It's more like learning the CEO of McDonalds doesn't eat food at all.

Gayming should only be a very small part of your life (if you're not some aspiring dev or creator).

If you're broke with no future financial plan and you play games all the time, you fucked up.

No it isn't you fucking retard.

souless AAA corpo suit doesn't interact with his own product

Nigga that litterally every big studio now
Their passions include money and sucking off investors for money. You don't get to be a ceo of a billion something studio by caring about anything else
and some people wonder why that one healthcare guy got shot, im surprised it doesn't happen more often

imagine calling mcdonalds "food"

lmfao

im going to play video games all the time for the rest of my life and you can't stop me

think we saw these creative souls prove reality with kickstarter games, in any case rockstar isn't in the business of making good games - they make games people want to buy

I'm a gamer, and I won't be playing GTA 6 either.

Outdated boomer advice that has already been debunked by fact checkers

Okay, enjoy. I'm still going to make sure I can retire early, and I'll be playing games as well. Good luck out there.

play games all the time

nigga rockstar releases games like once every 2 decades

Real adults don't play games
Games are for kids

Keep seething, Darren. Your meltdown has been hilarious so far

what do real adults do? work 9 to 5?

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CEO

Outdated boomer advice

Kek, no. I'm living on crypto wins and pay tax like a good goy. That equals stress free, non-wagie living. That isn't boomer, that's the trve neet.

work out

make money

start a family

learn martial arts

You should only be playing games as an adult if you're making money from it

Most huge crypto gains were made around mid 2010s which is 10 or more years ago

Which makes you a boomer

Seethe

Anon Babble runs a multi-billion dollar company

No I don't intend to test our product

I'm not interessed in it at all

But hear me out on what we need to put in it

It's the new trend in the market, you have to put it in

Investissors, who also won't play the game, said so

never get high on your own supply

What's the issue?

Don't worry, anon. It's all done there's no gains to be made in crypto anymore. You are right.

I just checked and he is in fact Jewish

Dan Hauser quit in 2020, which is when GTA6 went into production

Pepper your Angus, lads. This might not be what you’re expecting.

Why do CEOs always look like psychopaths? They just have 'that' look about them, you know? Like they wouldn't give a single fuck if they saw a toddler get run over by a car in front of them, but they would feign shock and fear.
You know what I mean?

Those are some dead as fuck eyes.
Look this mother fucker.

If I was the CEO of a mega corp I would also not play video games. I'd probably just have orgies all the time.

Pepper your Angus, lads. This might not be what you’re expecting.

If only you knew. 10+ years worth of analytics has given them enough insight on the best ways to squeeze blood out of a stone.

There's just... something off about him.
Something doesn't feel right.

There are gains but there are no wild gains like back then

People were making tens of millions with a 5 page "white paper", you fucking retard

Very antisemitic posts

Of course he's Jewish.
I didn't even have to look into early-life.
I could smell this fucking Kike a mile away.

studios with thousands of employees don't need funding and management

I'd go as far as to say studios don't need thousands of people either, guarantee most of them are useless danger hairs who have never done a single productive thing in their entire time there.
All of the greatest games ever made were made by teams small enough to share a pizza.

This guy gives serial killer vibes for days holy shit.

It's a company worth over 30bn dollars. They need a proper CEO not some gamer bro. Learn how companies operate, chud.

why do psychopaths always look like psychopaths?

Gee, dunno...

There are gains but there are no wild gains like back then

You can literally hit 6fig pnl on some spot flip and it isn't even rare. That isn't "wild gains" to an everyday wagie? You're in a position to not call 6fig flips wild gains? Interesting..

There's always some self-assured fagget with no experience in any of this who confidently yaps at me like I'm wrong and I have no clue because he doesn't want to really put the work in to study this arena.

Americans and their food analogies lmao

What the fuck was the name of that bitch from Chicken run?
He looks like her.

They named their Conniving Usurer character after their fucking CEO? Lmao

yaps

Boomer

mon visage quand

SAAR

CEOs do not manage shit, directors and department heads do.
CEOs do cocaine and rape children with same minded fellows to get free investor money. The best rape - the best money.

Careful now, you will arrive to 'companies do not need business people around' and thats communism. You don't want to be a fucking commie, do you?

Well, good for him, I guess.

Why the fuck you need martial arts? Do you make money by it or what?

Honestly I’m more surprised that he doesn’t game due to age. Hes not even an old boomer type, he should at least have memories of playing games right?

Every CEO have. That's because they all are

No.

hey I remember someone making a post like this ages ago or referring to it. I honestly believe it. He's probably someone who just knows what structure the money in the company should take / look like. You could replace Video games with any other type of product or metric that's just how these rich guys operate.

studios with thousands of employees should not exist
video games don't require even 100 developers to produce

All of that sounds boring though

Cause they wouldn't mind seeing your corpse shrivel up as long as they got their money. Don't give a fuck about you just what you do.

work out

You could use that time to make money for your family instead of wasting it on a meaningless pursuit.

exercise

work

work

exercise

good advice for alternative leisure activities

Of course you're a neo-nazi.
I can look at your retarded antisemitic posts. Hitler lost btw.

Shit bait.

They only hire you as a Ceo when you have soulless eyes.

To be fair, game development has changed and it is harder to make games with a small team than it used to be. Granted, a lot of that is due to graphical quality being pushed so much.

You are required to be a tall chad with perfect jawline and a career on the rise to get those things.

I'd rather sit inside and laugh at normie gamer oppressors while consuming vidya, anime and Anon Babble. Society denied teenage love from me, I shall deny taxes from society.

???

I mean, guys a top executive for a large publicly traded company.

Don't think he has the time. Any time he does have he probably wants to spend with his family and take part in more fufilling hobbies.

He is 100% psychopath. That makes him self centered and bad at feeling emotions. Psychos almost never do things just for fun - they cant feel fun, unless it is very physical: drugs, sex, adrenaline rush things.
So he doesn't lie he doesn't play games. He also doesn't listen music for fun, or watch movies, read fiction, watch sunsets or take walks at lake shore, unless he feels like it will improve his social appearance.
Psychopaths are machines of success.

He probably wants to spend with his family

Mistress.

And take part in more fulfilling hobbies

Child rape, yes.

Because you you need to be an emotionless meat sack who backstabs and manipulates to get to that level in the first place - so a psychopath.

Garbage game incoming.

There are one-man projects on UE5 that looks exactly like big-company projects.
Engines already have all the effects, all the assets, half on environment is generated.

Child rape is not a hobby, it is requirement, otherwise they will not let you get investor money.

I'm a musician

No I don't listen to music I just wanna make money

CEO = Bad

Anon Babbleeddit is here, it's your own fault you're poor and depressed

What a Chad. He took every one of your crushes virginities while you were gaming.

Usually not a good sign if the CEO doesn't at least use the product. It is especially worse when the company is taken over by accountants or nepos whose only interest is money or pushing a message at the cost of quality/satisfaction, eg, Boeing, Intel, Ubisoft, Sony Pictures, etc.

this lol

That's more the Executive producer's domain than the CEOs.

Yeah. Child rapists are the most loyal allies and henchmen you could ever wish for. They can't disobey or call out any of your crimes no matter what, because you can just instantly send them to jail to get lynched or turn the entire society against them. "Good guys get whacked" like they say in mafia.

That's fair.

Honestly, I doubt most Ceo's have real hobbies. They are just permanently in the work mindset.

based beyond belief

I'm well off and happy. Still think all CEO's should be killed.

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What a Chad. He took every one of your crushes virginities while you were gaming.

even Tifa's?

Literally all poser games

Well, considering that he is 67 and i had crushes in school, it is possibility, CEOs are known to prefer young side. But I doubt it, last time I checked all my crushes are still alive.

I'm sorry I don't care I'm busy playing with my Nintendo 3DS Entertainment System Game Console

So what is CEO domain? I never got it, every single thing that come up and add some value to product is done by someone else.
Is it like american psycho, showing of business cards to fellow ceos?

Yes, twice.

Anon Babble be like

VIDEO GAMES WERE THE BEST WHEN THEY WERE MADE BY PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T PLAY THEM. THEY WERE SO FRESH AND HAD FRESH IDEAS

and also

WTF THE CEO DOESN'T PLAY VIDEO GAMES?! WHAT A HECKIN JOKERINO

No one said games were best though. Only that he built a behemoth.
Nintendo is shit tier company with cult-like consumers.

Is it like american psycho, showing of business cards to fellow ceos?

Pretty much.

VIDEO GAMES WERE THE BEST WHEN THEY WERE MADE BY PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T PLAY THEM

Nobody thinks that. Games were best when they were made with people with diverse backgrounds. Besides, most of them still came from a background of computer software.

What do these guys do besides go on yachts and eat food with snooty people?

Upper and uppest management generally isn't that knowledgeable about the details of their business. They listen to various top experts in their company, and make decisions when the experts disagree on something. If all your experts agree on something, there's really no decision to be made, you just do what everyone says. But this kind of consensus doesn't happen every time. Hell, in entertainment business it probably only rarely happens.

If you think 10 experts with equal authority is any way to make a decision, you have never made a decision or worked in a group and you're not good at anything.

In completely privately owned firms with no shareholders or investors the CEO handles long term and wide scale strategy. The CEO makes decisions like when the company should expand and into which markets, when to save capital for a possible market downturn, and how best to run the company.
In most publicly traded companies the CEO is either a grifter that will sacrifice all long term benefit to make line go up next quarter or a hype man whose job it is to stand on stage and lie about what magic things the companys products will definitely do.

He built a behemoth mostly by viewing Nintendo first and foremost as a company that sells toys. That was, especially at the time, a working formula but you can see it decline pretty quickly.

He's a good example of a way in which a non standard background can result in success. Zelnick doesn't have that, frankly. His background was mostly in television, and when it comes to credentials largely just a typical stock business executive.

would explain why he doesnt give a shit about people who criticise his games

It's amazing how they reinvented the worst parts of feudalism by accident.

Well yeah, videogames are for manchildren, the male CEOs for cosmetic brands don't wear makeup either

The propagandist does not consume the pamphlets he himself prints

Damn! I'm like... so mad!!

It's all propaganda

Then why even have a CEO? Dump the position and it will cost way less to produce.

Since we are talking about psychopaths here.
Why is some psychopaths go on to me serial killers who murder and cut up hookers for fun while other psychopaths go on to become CEOs of big companies.
Like how do they decided on these two options? and are there really no other lifepaths for these kinds of people?

Buy and murder poor people for fun

Because the board/shareholders need a scapegoat for when things go wrong, that's why so many of them have golden parachutes. It's an especially effective scapegoat when you can point to the CEO and say they are incompetent because they know nothing about the product they are selling.