Probably would not add kpop to the list of chill. That industry is rife with abuse like slave contracts.
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TheBeege@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Just gonna copy paste my comment on a related post…
Similar shit happened when they were PUBG Corporation. Fuck these lying assholes. Player Unknown was a smart, capable dude, and they exiled him to a remote office because he got pissed at the CEO for over-monetizing things in a way that cost them players.
When they released the battle pass while the game was retail, all of the non-Korean employees nearly revolted. It wasn’t smart, and it was a money grab on the players. When the team lead of market research told the product manager that the feature was a bad idea and would lose them all their Western players, the product manager got him demoted and moved to another team.
When the numbers didn’t look good, the data analysts were freaking out because they couldn’t deliver bad news up the chain of command, even if it was accurate.
When they acquired Mad Glory, they promised that the dev team would still be contracted to other game companies to build APIs and tools for them, keeping the game industry tooling ecosystem healthy (think op.gg). When PUBG Corporation acquired them, the company canceled their contract with Bethesda for the API they were in the middle of building and forbade them from working with other companies.
Fuck Bluehole. Fuck PUBG Corporation. Fuck Krafton. Fuck game studios in Korea. Don’t play Korean games. Kpop and cosmetics and whatever are chill. Don’t play Korean games. Korean game companies are fucking cancer.
Don’t buy Subnautica 2. The Subnautica franchise died when Krafton became the publisher.
wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org 6 days ago
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Well, you can’t deny that whatever are still chill, at least. That’s not nothing.
TheBeege@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Very fair point. I was a bit hyper-focused. Will edit my previous comment
L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Friendly reminder that Korea invented and perfected micro-transactions. MapleStory has done more damage to both worldwide gaming and Korean game devs than anything else could ever hope to.
Valorie12@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Which is very sad because MapleStory was such a great game, at one time. I still play it (private servers) often, 20 years later. The game had such creative passion in it before Nexon took over it and monetized the shit out of it.
MITM0@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Wasn’t it the Chinese that did this ?
baines@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
gachas are japanese in origin
MITM0@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Dude what did Korean devs ever do to you ? You ARE generalizing a bit. What’s next ?
TheBeege@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The devs themselves are fine. It’s the leadership that’s cancer. Abusive leadership in Korean companies is actually a pretty well known issue. It’s just more self-destructive in game companies, which I have direct experience with. So they did a lot to me and my friends. And said friends shared their stories of other Korean game companies.
You’re absolutely right to question, especially with my level of anger, but I’m confident this one is justified.
vxx@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Kpop is extremely explpoitive to the artists, much worse than game development.
TheBeege@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You’re absolutely right. I was too focused. I crossed that out in my comment. Thanks