Hi there, Nick here from the Church of B1tsh1ft responding to everything.
"(except alan, he apparently couldn't care less)"
I think we all agree that every corporation at the end of the day exists solely to generate profit at the expense of everyone else. In the games industry, the consumer does not matter. The reviews and the money that result from consumer satisfaction do, in order to generate more games and recursively generate more profit, over and over.
In the games industry, one must stay up until 7:00 PM and get to work at 6 in the morning. That's just the standard, and it's the only reason why everyone but Game freak is producing better and better games than before. 13 hours is the bare minimum, and you should not be paid for overtime. It's a waste of the company's money that could be used on something important like buying all the ad space on GameSpot and Kotaku, and giving money to people like Angry Joe who are generally more trusted than corporate reviewers to hopefully drop a good review on the game.
The games industry is set up to drive you into the ground, and rightfully so.
The coin-op generation never even got paid by Atari to make their games, and the fact that the games industry even exists as a professional market by itself is amazing.
Honestly, not getting frustrated when something goes wrong or when not everyone immediately likes you because you're on Community Engagement is the signs of an incompetent worker who isn't putting everything into the company.
Either that, or they vent it off with humor like Saint Michael.
Remember that time in Extra Life when the ROBLOX admins thought they weren't recording, and went on a "twitch rampage"?
What I've said above still applies here.
"Idiots. They should of been away from the computer if they want to swear and trash talk roblox. Plus if I was going to do that I would check to make sure that I wasn't recording and my mic was off all the way."
One doesn't get fired for saying something bad about GabeN at Valve. It's natural and expected for one to either intensely hate their job, or find it essential to their life. Anyone else gets fired. This was a bad move on ROBLOX's part. It's critical to have your employees talk about how bad your company is and never talk about how much better someone else is, or else they're likely to quit, you have to hire someone new, probably someone fresh from college, and teach them the engine, teach them how everything works, show them what to do, and how to work in the established workflow, and that costs time and money, something any company would rather not have to spend.
"They also threatened to ban people's accounts over something."
This was a joke from Saint Michael, something about a guy impersonating admins on Twitter.
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