Don't let YAGOO's dream be just a dream.I'm ..... very tempted to buy this.
I actually went bankrupt.
Kidding aside, I tried the demo and there is quite a bit of depth in there. Considering picking up the full game.
Don't let YAGOO's dream be just a dream.I'm ..... very tempted to buy this.
I actually went bankrupt.
Okay, I think you've sold me on this game. Give me them gacha scandals.3 hours later: my budding idol agency almost went bankrupt, then it was saved by a hugely successful return single. Then I expanded too quickly, hired a lot of idols and staff without sufficient profit centers, my top idol was embroiled in a gacha scandal and then had an accident due to exhaustion, and I actually went bankrupt. A+, will play again.
But seriously this is a much more difficult and involved management sim than I would have ever expected from the title.
It's kinda interseting when game developers themselves get a "we are listening" response.
A Letter From CEO Bobby Kotick to All Employees
This has been a difficult and upsetting week.
I want to recognize and thank all those who have come forward in the past and in recent days. I so appreciate your courage. Every voice matters - and
we will do a better job of listening now, and in the future.
Our initial responses to the issues we face together, and to your concerns, were, quite frankly, tone deaf.
It is imperative that we acknowledge all perspectives and experiences and respect the feelings of those who have been mistreated in any way. I am
sorry that we did not provide the right empathy and understanding.
Many of you have told us that active outreach comes from caring so deeply for the Company. That so many people have reached out and shared
thoughts, suggestions, and highlighted opportunities for improvement is a powerful reflection of how you care for our communities of colleagues and
players – and for each other. Ensuring that we have a safe and welcoming work environment is my highest priority. The leadership team has heard you
loud and clear.
We are taking swift action to be the compassionate, caring company you came to work for and to ensure a safe environment. There is no place
anywhere at our Company for discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment of any kind.
We will do everything possible to make sure that together, we improve and build the kind of inclusive workplace that is essential to foster creativity and
inspiration.
I have asked the law firm WilmerHale to conduct a review of our policies and procedures to ensure that we have and maintain best practices to
promote a respectful and inclusive workplace. This work will begin immediately. The WilmerHale team will be led by Stephanie Avakian, who is a
member of the management team at WilmerHale and was most recently the Director of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s
Division of Enforcement.
We encourage anyone with an experience you believe violates our policies or in any way made you uncomfortable in the workplace to use any of our
many existing channels for reporting or to reach out to Stephanie. She and her team at WilmerHale will be available to speak with you on a confidential
basis and can be reached at ATVI@wilmerhale.com or 202-247-2725. Your outreach will be kept confidential. Of course, NO retaliation will be
tolerated.
We are committed to long-lasting change. Effective immediately, we will be taking the following actions:
1. Employee Support. We will continue to investigate each and every claim and will not hesitate to take decisive action. To
strengthen our capabilities in this area we are adding additional senior staff and other resources to both the Compliance
team and the Employee Relations team.
2. Listening Sessions. We know many of you have inspired ideas on how to improve our culture. We will be creating safe
spaces, moderated by third parties, for you to speak out and share areas for improvement.
3. Personnel Changes. We are immediately evaluating managers and leaders across the Company. Anyone found to have
impeded the integrity of our processes for evaluating claims and imposing appropriate consequences will be terminated.
4. Hiring Practices. Earlier this year I sent an email requiring all hiring managers to ensure they have diverse candidate slates
for all open positions. We will be adding compliance resources to ensure that our hiring managers are in fact adhering to
this directive.
5. In-game Changes. We have heard the input from employee and player communities that some of our in-game content is
inappropriate. We are removing that content.
Your well-being remains my priority and I will spare no company resource ensuring that our company has the most welcoming, comfortable, and safe
culture possible.
You have my unwavering commitment that we will improve our company together, and we will be the most inspiring, inclusive entertainment company
in the world.
Yours sincerely,
Bobby
I need to play the Ace Attorney Trilogy firstGreat Ace Attorney is in fact fucking great. That's all.
Please buy it so the series doesn't die.
I really also should start streaming, as you said no one reads blogs anymore.:/I suppose it’s no longer hype to blog ? New cool is streaming ?
Just in one of those ‘I should do something with my life’ night.
I was going to say that this was the third or fourth time we have seen this sort of letter from kottik. Then realised it was Ubisoft.
A Letter From CEO Bobby Kotick to All Employees
This has been a difficult and upsetting week.
I want to recognize and thank all those who have come forward in the past and in recent days. I so appreciate your courage. Every voice matters - and
we will do a better job of listening now, and in the future.
Our initial responses to the issues we face together, and to your concerns, were, quite frankly, tone deaf.
It is imperative that we acknowledge all perspectives and experiences and respect the feelings of those who have been mistreated in any way. I am
sorry that we did not provide the right empathy and understanding.
Many of you have told us that active outreach comes from caring so deeply for the Company. That so many people have reached out and shared
thoughts, suggestions, and highlighted opportunities for improvement is a powerful reflection of how you care for our communities of colleagues and
players – and for each other. Ensuring that we have a safe and welcoming work environment is my highest priority. The leadership team has heard you
loud and clear.
We are taking swift action to be the compassionate, caring company you came to work for and to ensure a safe environment. There is no place
anywhere at our Company for discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment of any kind.
We will do everything possible to make sure that together, we improve and build the kind of inclusive workplace that is essential to foster creativity and
inspiration.
I have asked the law firm WilmerHale to conduct a review of our policies and procedures to ensure that we have and maintain best practices to
promote a respectful and inclusive workplace. This work will begin immediately. The WilmerHale team will be led by Stephanie Avakian, who is a
member of the management team at WilmerHale and was most recently the Director of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s
Division of Enforcement.
We encourage anyone with an experience you believe violates our policies or in any way made you uncomfortable in the workplace to use any of our
many existing channels for reporting or to reach out to Stephanie. She and her team at WilmerHale will be available to speak with you on a confidential
basis and can be reached at ATVI@wilmerhale.com or 202-247-2725. Your outreach will be kept confidential. Of course, NO retaliation will be
tolerated.
We are committed to long-lasting change. Effective immediately, we will be taking the following actions:
1. Employee Support. We will continue to investigate each and every claim and will not hesitate to take decisive action. To
strengthen our capabilities in this area we are adding additional senior staff and other resources to both the Compliance
team and the Employee Relations team.
2. Listening Sessions. We know many of you have inspired ideas on how to improve our culture. We will be creating safe
spaces, moderated by third parties, for you to speak out and share areas for improvement.
3. Personnel Changes. We are immediately evaluating managers and leaders across the Company. Anyone found to have
impeded the integrity of our processes for evaluating claims and imposing appropriate consequences will be terminated.
4. Hiring Practices. Earlier this year I sent an email requiring all hiring managers to ensure they have diverse candidate slates
for all open positions. We will be adding compliance resources to ensure that our hiring managers are in fact adhering to
this directive.
5. In-game Changes. We have heard the input from employee and player communities that some of our in-game content is
inappropriate. We are removing that content.
Your well-being remains my priority and I will spare no company resource ensuring that our company has the most welcoming, comfortable, and safe
culture possible.
You have my unwavering commitment that we will improve our company together, and we will be the most inspiring, inclusive entertainment company
in the world.
Yours sincerely,
Bobby
Nice, been getting lots of updates recently in lieu of launch.Aug 5th
- Jupiter Hell - v1.0
The no-backlash against people that speak out is total bullshit. I've been on the receiving end of workplace abuse and mistreatment, not sexual abuse or anything related to my gender and/or sexual orientation but the rest of their story is pretty similar to mine, and I've followed the proper channels to report these people and provided evidence and at the end of the day they, the ones in power, were protected and the whole thing was swept under the rug while I was left to face to consequences of daring to speak out.
A Letter From CEO Bobby Kotick to All Employees
This has been a difficult and upsetting week.
I want to recognize and thank all those who have come forward in the past and in recent days. I so appreciate your courage. Every voice matters - and
we will do a better job of listening now, and in the future.
Our initial responses to the issues we face together, and to your concerns, were, quite frankly, tone deaf.
It is imperative that we acknowledge all perspectives and experiences and respect the feelings of those who have been mistreated in any way. I am
sorry that we did not provide the right empathy and understanding.
Many of you have told us that active outreach comes from caring so deeply for the Company. That so many people have reached out and shared
thoughts, suggestions, and highlighted opportunities for improvement is a powerful reflection of how you care for our communities of colleagues and
players – and for each other. Ensuring that we have a safe and welcoming work environment is my highest priority. The leadership team has heard you
loud and clear.
We are taking swift action to be the compassionate, caring company you came to work for and to ensure a safe environment. There is no place
anywhere at our Company for discrimination, harassment, or unequal treatment of any kind.
We will do everything possible to make sure that together, we improve and build the kind of inclusive workplace that is essential to foster creativity and
inspiration.
I have asked the law firm WilmerHale to conduct a review of our policies and procedures to ensure that we have and maintain best practices to
promote a respectful and inclusive workplace. This work will begin immediately. The WilmerHale team will be led by Stephanie Avakian, who is a
member of the management team at WilmerHale and was most recently the Director of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission’s
Division of Enforcement.
We encourage anyone with an experience you believe violates our policies or in any way made you uncomfortable in the workplace to use any of our
many existing channels for reporting or to reach out to Stephanie. She and her team at WilmerHale will be available to speak with you on a confidential
basis and can be reached at ATVI@wilmerhale.com or 202-247-2725. Your outreach will be kept confidential. Of course, NO retaliation will be
tolerated.
We are committed to long-lasting change. Effective immediately, we will be taking the following actions:
1. Employee Support. We will continue to investigate each and every claim and will not hesitate to take decisive action. To
strengthen our capabilities in this area we are adding additional senior staff and other resources to both the Compliance
team and the Employee Relations team.
2. Listening Sessions. We know many of you have inspired ideas on how to improve our culture. We will be creating safe
spaces, moderated by third parties, for you to speak out and share areas for improvement.
3. Personnel Changes. We are immediately evaluating managers and leaders across the Company. Anyone found to have
impeded the integrity of our processes for evaluating claims and imposing appropriate consequences will be terminated.
4. Hiring Practices. Earlier this year I sent an email requiring all hiring managers to ensure they have diverse candidate slates
for all open positions. We will be adding compliance resources to ensure that our hiring managers are in fact adhering to
this directive.
5. In-game Changes. We have heard the input from employee and player communities that some of our in-game content is
inappropriate. We are removing that content.
Your well-being remains my priority and I will spare no company resource ensuring that our company has the most welcoming, comfortable, and safe
culture possible.
You have my unwavering commitment that we will improve our company together, and we will be the most inspiring, inclusive entertainment company
in the world.
Yours sincerely,
Bobby
Yes.Didn't that Acti CEO lose a sexual harassment suit?
In Flight Sim's case you download another launcher within the launcher, because the download via the Microsoft Store (Steam too) is just the game client without any game files. If your internet isn't the best you will spend hours ingame to download the actual game...Been reading about the Flight Sim update and it does look great, im tempted.
I dont however want to spend £60 on it and also reading about the download issues with Microsoft puts me right off. If it all went through Steam i might bite but im not willing to waste time and effort on Microsofts update manager.
But hey, its just another launcher right....
Streaming has been the "new thing" for years tho?!I really also should start streaming, as you said no one reads blogs anymore.:/
Well fuck me, I agree with a Sony guy on something, at least regarding consolidation and corporate culture.Interesting interview with Layden.
Shawn Layden: Consolidation is the enemy of diversity
At Gamelab last year, Shawn Layden grabbed headlines for calling out the spiralling costs of game development. Although…www.gamesindustry.biz
I guess that's another reason why Sony (and others) are looking to other markets like PC/Steam and mobile, games costs more and more to make and the Playstation console playerbase isn't enough.
Pioneering that good old 70 bucks price tag and seeing how many people bend over.Any theories of why FlightSim hasn't had a sale yet? Very interested in it and really liked what I tried on game pass, but not full price interested.
Looks sweet.
It's gonna be hard making time for both City of Gangsters and Patron but I'm going to have to find a way because I'm really excited for both. So much potential.
But you missed the premiere Aug. release.
Yeah, Patron looks quite interesting too.It's gonna be hard making time for both City of Gangsters and Patron but I'm going to have to find a way because I'm really excited for both. So much potential.
I tried Nadir and well ... I couldn't finish the first fight due to a bug.
There used to be an old Gangsters game that i liked where you would spend the first half of it planning the weekly activities like which places to hit up for protection money etc and then the second half would play out what you have planned in a isometric city map. It was good. Organised crime i think it was sub-tagged.
But you missed the premiere Aug. release.
I guess Stores/plats are sorted by importance? lol.at long last
They could have announced something, anything, you know?Jim Ryan finally says straight why they bought Nixxes
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ソニー・インタラクティブエンタテインメントが、プレイステーション5の世界累計販売台数が1000万台を突破したことを発表した。www.famitsu.com
hopefully sometime later , this was released alongside PS5 sold 10mil info , i guess they dont want to enrage fanboys that muchThey could have announced something, anything, you know?
on the contrary, if anything this is usually the best moment as they celebrate, PC port news will be hidden for most.hopefully sometime later , this was released alongside PS5 sold 10mil info , i guess they dont want to enrage fanboys that much
"We were confident that this would be the case, we believed profoundly in the feature set of our new platform, and we worked really hard internally and with our partners to make sure that the game line-up Bloodborne PC 19th august was really strong, and we have continued to pepper the community with excellent PlayStation Studios' games like MLB: The Show, Returnal, and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. But fair to say that the engagement has surprised us, in a very pleasant way."on the contrary, if anything this is usually the best moment as they celebrate, PC port news will be hidden for most.
it was, this is third time we got confirmation of "more pc ports" but none new, this starts feeling like SEGA EU in 2017-18Well my random Tuesday thing yesterday wasn't that far off XD
I'm not getting the joke, sorry"We were confident that this would be the case, we believed profoundly in the feature set of our new platform, and we worked really hard internally and with our partners to make sure that the game line-up Bloodborne PC 19th august was really strong, and we have continued to pepper the community with excellent PlayStation Studios' games like MLB: The Show, Returnal, and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. But fair to say that the engagement has surprised us, in a very pleasant way."
please don't mention bloodborne in front of me, it hurts. : ("We were confident that this would be the case, we believed profoundly in the feature set of our new platform, and we worked really hard internally and with our partners to make sure that the game line-up Bloodborne PC 19th august was really strong, and we have continued to pepper the community with excellent PlayStation Studios' games like MLB: The Show, Returnal, and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. But fair to say that the engagement has surprised us, in a very pleasant way."
Read closer. You talked about Sony hiding PC port announcements.it was, this is third time we got confirmation of "more pc ports" but none new, this starts feeling like SEGA EU in 2017-18
I'm not getting the joke, sorry
Ah yes, I saw but didn't get the context hahahaRead closer. You talked about Sony hiding PC port announcements.