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hello Jim Sterling

We can get as mad as we want, & we should, but it needs to be explicitly said that this is capitalism working exactly as intended. Embracer are an inevitable outcome of this economic system.

This is like marrying someone, stripping their car and home then divorcing... but you get to keep their family name and file taxes as if still married.

The idiocy of Capitalism never stops. Pre-name change, THQ Nordic was doing quite well. It was sustainable. But of course sustainable is not acceptable under Capitalism. You gotta use up everything, burn through all resources, in order to have "infinite growth" and to have it as quickly and extremely as possible. Of course, it isn't possible. Growth must be finite. Under some sort of sane system, the goal would be to reach an equilibrium, to exist in balance and sustainability.

All the poor people and games

As always, thanks for telling it like it is.

why they didnt call the company buttfuggers is the real question :D

Truly your 9/11

But for a brief period they created a lot of value for the investors, and that's all that matters

File this under "Shit I already know."

It really says something depressing that more people are angry at Ubisoft for putting a black guy in Japan than they are about Ubisoft openly fantasizing about turning video games into streaming...

I fear for what might be coming for Ghost Ship Games. They're actually making good stuff.

Do you look back on this video like how Oppenheimer looked back on the creation of the atomic bomb

I have to disagree with one of Steph's takes. Corporate execs absolutely understand consequences. They simply do not care what the consequences *are* - they will never have to reckon with anything that happens to their companies or employees, so consequences do not matter to them. It's less ignorance and more actual malevolence.

I worked for Embracer for 2 years - at Asmodee (their Board Game subsidiary group....thing) and it was just...there were so many baffling decisions coming down from the corporate and Embracer side of things, and we were under constant fear of layoffs. It was massively stressful and mismanaged as fuck.

Game journalism is weird. You start out reviewing a disappointing first person shooter and then a few years pass and suddenly were fighting capitalism.

You helped create a monster, this is your FAULT

Its crazy how people still complain about fromsoft fans as if easy mode demanders aren't the ones who are constantly bringing up the topic. Literally zero people have ever actually made the point that dark souls players are better than other people, its just non fans being really insecure about it. I mean here you are screeching like a lunatic about how this supposedly awful fanbase puts people off of the series, meanwhile Elden Ring is literally their most successful game to date. Like it's crazy how much insecurity and projection is on display here

okay this is just evil

As someone in the industry directly under embracer thank you for bringing awareness

That + icon in Embracer's logo should be changed to a minus icon. And a toxic waste icon. And a few hundred tombstone icons.

It seems like they used the video game industry to do financial arbitrage. Like corporate raiders in the 80s.

oppenheimer

Oh of course it was thq nordic

I was so hopeful we'd finally get the 3rd and last prequal to Deus Ex before a glorious HD remake to make a generation weep in joy..but no. Embracer shot the golden goose. They shot that sweet innocent hope in the face. Clubbed it to death like a baby seal, and then went off to wipe out the polar bears. I hope these ceos never have a nice poo again. I hope their money never buys them the comfort of a healthy bowl. Let their money hang around them like maggots in a corpse.

do you think this guy feels like oppenheimer

Good thing we give these investors tax breaks, they're job creators...

Ahh, getting Ubisoft+ commercial to a Jimquisition video! 😘 Oh, Ubisoft…

i wander how many jobs a games are lost because dei consultant company?

I mean, they sold Freddy Kreuger toys to kids in the 80s. Iconic characters are always going to be sliced from their IP to make a quick buck.

The buy-up and termination of development studious is the point. Publishers are quite literally trying to reduce and eliminate the number of developers out there. The fewer developers there are, the more publishers can force control of the industry... up to, and including, massive increases in the price of games.

Aw crap, even Limited Run? No wonder there's no much complaints about their service and products these days...

Embracer Group to EA: "I can do that! Hold my Beers!"

Every journalism outlet that covers these games or interviews these corporations about a "success" without saying straight-up that these layoffs are a sign of abject failure every single time they open their damn mouths about "record growth" is complicit. Fudging the numbers to get success means that your original metrics showed failure, and figureheads shouldn't get to hide behind the numbers they made up just because their company shat out some AAA grindmill that made you feel nice. If you ain't saying shit like "Embracer Group _alleges_ record profits despite billion dollar debt and thousands of employee layoffs" then you are telling the emperor his new clothes are wonderful. Fact-check these fuckers until they're red in the face from embarrassment, because they sure as hell ain't gonna be red from shame.

Normally I loath creator-product placements but god damnit, do I love the tune and dance they do at the end 😂 It’s just so infectious - you keep movin them hips love!

If anything is going to crash the video game industry, it's companies like Embracer group closing out all the game studios they buy out, dropping all the actual game developers to the point where none of them will want to work in the gaming industry anymore.

That guy's UA-cam page is unhinged.

The New Testament says nothing about e girls.

Thank god for you

That "Lars" looks suspiciously like "Geoff K." I always knew these people come from underground clone laboratories..

I both hate these videos and will always watch these videos. Ah to live in a world where such videos weren't necessary... alas

That better be 4532 severance packages…

RIP Free Radical Design We were so close to TimeSplitters 4

Nutty how companies and corporations fail upwards. It makes zero sense how "Bad" somehow equal "Good". And not just one time but somehow all the time. You'd think it would lead to their demise.

4532 layoffs WHAT THE FU.... 🎶SKELTON WARRIORS 🎶

Michelin is shutting down our tire plant in a few months. 2500+ people laid off, $200,000,000 a year removed from the local economy.

Blizzard has been bought and sold 4 or 5 times

Not to take from the pertinent point but I did not expect TotalBiscuit power bombing pedestrians at 11:20, he would be proud x

This is spilling over into the board game industry too. There are rumours that Embracer is planning to dump its debt onto Asmodee, which is itself a fairly massive umbrella company and would probably start "restructuring"...

A few people made millions of dollars off of all this. BeCaUse CaPiTaLiSm Is BeTtEr ThAn CoMmUnIsM