Square Enix Holdings. Has Shed Nearly $2 Billions

I agree there are a lot of lazy, unproductive people out there, but it's also worth recognizing that most people don't have the mental endurance to sit at a computer screen staring at code for 8 hours a day and still maintain peak productivity. It's more the outlier when people are able to do that compared to those that are.

I've also found it's gotten hard as I got older. I used to be able to sit in front of IDA, vim, VC++, etc for 8-12+ hours and go home to play video games, do more for fun, or whatever, then do it again the next day. Now, if I spend 8 hours nose deep in code all day, about all I have the mental energy for at the end of the day is to go stare at trees and the last thing I want to do is see a computer screen. 10-12 and I'm just roasted.

It doesn't help that most places don't really do a good job of managing burnout. They stuff more and more work in front of their most productive people who continue to work at a burnout pace until they can't take it anymore, then becoming unproductive or quit to go farm or do something unrelated. So I don't think it always comes down to laziness when people become unproductive, there needs to be a balance and when that balance is off then most people burn out.

Square Enix takes forever to push out meaningful content for any game they publish, however, their cash shop on the other hand seems to act like it has people working 24/7 on new lockstyle/glamours or otherwise mounts/gimmicks to sell.

A lot of them we don't see because they're market/region locked like some Chinese and JP items that later, if ever hit the NA/EU markets.

I understand game development, especially that with spaghetti code can take a while to build upon, amongst other things, but when it comes to a quick credit swipe product, SE never falters.

worked at a lot of places and most developers generally are putting in 4-5hrs of actual work a week at most of those places.

"BUT I GET MY WORK DONE" - probably what you assign yourself in jira estimating it at 30 hours when you know it's gonna take 3.

Square Enix takes forever to push out meaningful content for any game they publish, however, their cash shop on the other hand seems to act like it has people working 24/7 on new lockstyle/glamours or otherwise mounts/gimmicks to sell.

A lot of them we don't see because they're market/region locked like some Chinese and JP items that later, if ever hit the NA/EU markets.

I understand game development, especially that with spaghetti code can take a while to build upon, amongst other things, but when it comes to a quick credit swipe product, SE never falters.

You don't understand ***dude.

Regardless of his opinions on software development, don't you think he has a point about how SE interacts with customers outside of Japan? When it comes time to sell us a trinket, SE markets (emails) it to us and expedites manufacturing and gets it in our hands in a reasonable amount of time. They accept pre-orders so they can maximize profit, make exactly as many items as requested, and then moves onto the next trinket. Think about it. If SE took this approach with game-content we'd have a lot more than we have today.

It's a miracle that we don't have FF7: Rebirth underwear and Gold Saucer Expansion DLC with cash-app slot machines. :/

Edit: I mean, look, Last year, SE made a $12,000 FF6 statue: https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20220425-11916/

They treat us like ***and we're their cash cow.

They treat us like ***and we're their cash cow.

Pay Pigs

Pay Pigs

the original 14 was basically 11 but harder.

I love living rent free in people's heads for having a negative opinion of the massive risks and failures SE have had with MMO's, Crypto, etc. At this point I have a penthouse in Tokyo for free.

Anyways "I listened to a podcast so it must be true" instead of a textbook, an undergraduate or graduate level course on the subject matter is all I need to know. "Tiktok said it's true and they seemed serious ya'll."