Zoë Quinn, a feminist and gender ideology activist, recently claimed that woke Baldur’s Gate 3 developer Larian Studios attempted to recruit and hire her.
Interesting scoop on the recruitment story. The unpaid writing test requirement caught my eye more than the AI controversy honestly. Lots of game studios have shifted to similar hiring practices lately, and I've seen freinds in the industry complain about doing 20+ hours of unpaid "tests" that end up being actual work the company uses. The emigration policy combined with that setup creates a weird power dynamic where candidates invest heavily upfront with no guarantee. Having gone through a few of these processes myself, they really do filter for people who either have financial cushions or are desparate enough to gamble on it. Makes you wonder what kind of workplace culture that cultivates longterm.
I think this is a problem across the board. I had to provide an entire marketing and social media plan as part of the hiring process at one job, which was what they were hiring for. Since, they've now got the plan why do they need you?
I keep hearing gamers claim Baldur's Gate 3 is the second greatest game ever made - just behind GTA.
Apparently, I'm from Mars or something, because I can't find anything appealing about BG3. Because it has good graphics? Would these "gamers" eat a turd because it has been dressed up with "great graphics?"
No thanks. Zero interest in BG3 or anything from that studio. Their new Divinity trailer was so revolting I felt soiled.
I saw Synthetic Man's review and, while he says it had disgusting woke propaganda, it had some good aspects from gameplay and player choice (RPG stuff) but apparently some things fell off a bit closer to the end. Still woke garbage propaganda at the end of the day
" Vincke said, “I think at this point everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we’re using it.”"
Maybe but sounds more like typical corporate BS speak, where leadership dictates how everyone feels/believes to match wat leadership wants and not what the staff actually think or believe. The larger the company the more likely they are to use fear and similar tactics to manage staff.
Interesting scoop on the recruitment story. The unpaid writing test requirement caught my eye more than the AI controversy honestly. Lots of game studios have shifted to similar hiring practices lately, and I've seen freinds in the industry complain about doing 20+ hours of unpaid "tests" that end up being actual work the company uses. The emigration policy combined with that setup creates a weird power dynamic where candidates invest heavily upfront with no guarantee. Having gone through a few of these processes myself, they really do filter for people who either have financial cushions or are desparate enough to gamble on it. Makes you wonder what kind of workplace culture that cultivates longterm.
I think this is a problem across the board. I had to provide an entire marketing and social media plan as part of the hiring process at one job, which was what they were hiring for. Since, they've now got the plan why do they need you?
I keep hearing gamers claim Baldur's Gate 3 is the second greatest game ever made - just behind GTA.
Apparently, I'm from Mars or something, because I can't find anything appealing about BG3. Because it has good graphics? Would these "gamers" eat a turd because it has been dressed up with "great graphics?"
No thanks. Zero interest in BG3 or anything from that studio. Their new Divinity trailer was so revolting I felt soiled.
I saw Synthetic Man's review and, while he says it had disgusting woke propaganda, it had some good aspects from gameplay and player choice (RPG stuff) but apparently some things fell off a bit closer to the end. Still woke garbage propaganda at the end of the day
" Vincke said, “I think at this point everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we’re using it.”"
Maybe but sounds more like typical corporate BS speak, where leadership dictates how everyone feels/believes to match wat leadership wants and not what the staff actually think or believe. The larger the company the more likely they are to use fear and similar tactics to manage staff.