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Please do not tell me that anyone is surprised that a triple A game studio laid off most of their employees as a reward for a job well done.

Please. Please tell me everyone has figured out that nearly all large game dev companies are pure fucking evil.

EDIT: Welp, thats what I get for making an ill informed post after 36 hours on the road before passing out in my motel, yep, I probably should have read the article.

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152 points

It’s the D&D team at Wizards of the Coast, not at Larian.

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I guess this is reddit and you don’t know how to read past the headlines?

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They didn’t even read the headline.

The headline clearly says that Hasbro (owners of WotC/D&D) did layoffs, not Larian Studios (creators of Balder’s Gate 3).

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Listen, we all know gamers can’t read. What did you expect? /s

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The headline here on lemmy is unreadable gibberish with BG3 in the title. It could as well be

Layoff 5blagagasjjee Swen shgrwaaahahaaaa Baldurs Gate 3 dacghgfrtf gone. Click here for ads.

So i get where he’s coming from. On the other hand, once you start reading the ads with some content in between it becomes clear immediately that this is about the IP holder, not the game studio.

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34 points

I don’t even think they read the headline correctly.

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15 points

Read? Lemmy is Reddit 2.0. Unfortunately, the majority don’t read articles.

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8 points

Yeah I was super refreshed when I moved here but it seems to have just absorbed all the bad habits I hated about reddit.

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6 points

If you read the comments, the majority have done so.

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5 points

Yeah… that trait isn’t limited to Reddit users

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1 point

Unfortunately, the exodus brought in more low quality users.

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48 points

About a week ago you decided to make your lemmy account. A better idea would’ve been to learn how to fucking read.

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5 points

You should teaach him about your username.

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1 point

Will there be lemonade?

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I’m proud to say I’ve spread the lemon party gospel on lemmy a few times, and the reactions are always worth it.

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34 points

I’ll take “I have no fucking idea what I’m talking about” for $500, Alex

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29 points

Maybe reread the article

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You…You might want to consider reading the article.

Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast, who own DnD. Larian, a completely separate company, got the rights to make BG3 from Hasbro. Hasbro laid off nearly everyone Larian Studios worked with at Wizards of the Coast.

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Hasbro laid off nearly everyone Larian Studios

WHY ARE ALL DEVS EVIL

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What? No. They’re saying that Larian, a completely independent company, worked with a team from Wizards of the Coast. Wizards of the Coast is owned by Hasbro. Hasbro laid off 1100 employees from Wizards of the Coast. Many of those employees were on the team that worked with Larian to make BG3.

Larian Studios had literally nothing to do with this. Larian did nothing wrong.

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13 points

Try re-reading the headline again :)

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Please tell me everyone has figured out that all large companies are pure fucking evil

Fixed that for you

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I upvoted you out of pitty. Hope your motel bed is comfortable.

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Hooray pity upvote!

The bed is comfortable, yes.

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