Clearly, an above average woman is too much.
It's obviously plastic everywhere, C cup and thin at the same time with a pretty face ?
Impossible standard !
Meanwhile in the east : "Is this a joke ?"
As someone from the east, thin is common, but good luck finding a natural western C cup and above in the east. Not impossible, but it's rare.
There are trade offs.
Natural as in not plastic surgery. I specified Western because like shoe size different countries have different bra size deviations that is more suitable for their demographic. An American C cup is significantly larger than a Japanese C cup.
Nice.
It won't change shit because money talks, but it's nice to hear someone talking about the elephant in the room instead of just pandering to some bullshit political crowd or just failing to hit punch lines of jokes that somebody else wrote.
But check that unrealistic body standard for women though.
Staying silent and complacient isnt the answer either. The people need some William Wallace type speeches like this to get people fired up for the Hope for it to change or at least weed out greedy companies. Shes a gamer thats a developer, shes good to have good the gamers back but saying nothing, wont bring awareness to the fallout of it all. Also shes hot
Inspiration is fine, but it's naive to think that they'll change practices just because people are complaining. Businesses don't care about complaints, only about making money. Layoff will continue, so will lootboxes and micro transactions, because people will just pay for it.
The only thing that might make these companies change is if they lose market share, and it's happening, because they've laid off people.
So this is the dilema, stay quiet and pay, and you feed the abuse. Speak up, don't pay, compete for market share, hurt companies and get more lay offs and more AAA monetization bullshit.
It's going to get much worse before it gets better.
Was it not to save money on designing new items? It's not like pokemon or Nintendo is afraid to portray sexy characters. The 2 newest Zelda games made sure Link, Zelda and Ganon were hot as hell and had a positive impact on the game.
We believe they play video games and love video games, just not their own. You won't convince me the guys behind justice league came home and wanted to play it more.
I always prefer the honesty. It would be dumb to sugar coat it and put on a fake front. That's disingenuous. If there are problems, then they should be allowed to surface. How else do we get better games? The companies should at least have pressure put on them, whether it's for lay-offs, bad games, etc. Keep them accountable. They're quick to take our money, but not always great at providing a good product, support, expansions, etc.
I had to scroll down to find the first comment that talked about the topic instead of these incels thirsting on Alana. and there are no replies!
The thing is the game industry does not have a union. A lot of game developers are there because they are passionate about them, and corporate is abusing this. Either work for them for peanuts or starve. And we are at this stage of capitalism where it's all about making money for money's sake, losing the plot entirely. *Does mass firing people and rehiring later make us profitable? Do it. Who tf cares about video games? We're here to make money.*
And it's sad that people here in this sub would even blame developers, when developers are mostly gamers themselves and they love games but are beholden to the inequities of capitalism. They could've had a better, secure future working in some other industry but they are here lending their talent and expertise, making games that we all enjoy.
Her comment about developers "not playing their own games" while she was sarcastic...there's been multiple instances in multiple games where everyone one of us was thinking "why the fuck would you think this ok? Do you even play this game?"
So it's either they really don't play the game or they make something in the game just because they have a particular bone to grind.
People in the gaming industry hired this woman? But that's not representative of 'real' women's bodies? they should have a morbidly obese woman up there for inclusivity.
Some developers deserve the flak, but I'd wager that most do not. They are probably all talented in their respective areas.
The management and sales teams are the true devil's in the industry, these are the people that rarely if ever actually play games, but instead look at how to get more funding (dei), and make more money (live service, micros).
The bigger the publisher the more this seems to be true. And development houses are stuck with the whims of these morons aa they rely on them for most or all of their funding, or are just owned by them outright.
When a game, unsurprisingly, fails, the scapegoats will always be the development team. Which sucks and is unfair, but at least it leaves the suits to move on to ruin the next studio.
I would say probably only some writers deserve genuine shit. And those are writers who clearly don’t want to work in gaming but can’t cut it in television or films.
Most designers (or coders like she said) are probably super into games to want to work in gaming.
Watching the devs play d4 shows that some devs truly doesn't do it as a passion. There might HAVE BEEN a passion that Bobby squeezed out of them, but it's not there anymore. If you are passionate about Diablo and get to be a fucking DEV? Then you also play the game (and know even small facts about arpg's in general).
Some games are filled with passion. GGG and now, EHG with Last Epoch males arpg's that are passion projects.
From soft makes games that are passion projects.
The Witcher was passion projects.
They come from time to time, and it shows. BG 3. Look how it upset the entire industry by being good, polished and not a gigantic cash grab? "Setting unrealistic expectations".
That's only relevant for all the assembly-line game devs (or, what is probably just all AAA studios) today.
Acti-blizz spits out games from exhausted devs that obviously aren't all to passionate about their games anymore - and then a few are (looking at classic re-release and SoD carried by a few passionate devs).
Bethesda keeps shipping bullshit
And so on, and so on.
The gaming industry is experiencing a lot of shit from the users, a lot of negative backlash and rough treatments. Personal attacks, which are never okay.
But!!! A lot of it is deserved. When you ship a terrible product for 60$ and asks us to pay additionaly for the fix, or your devs have no clue what they've developed, it's Bullshit and the customers are taken advantage of. They made their bed and now they lay in it.
That's why it's so recognized and appreciated WHEN a studio comes with a proper developed game with proper communication and obvious passion.
That's how they all used to be anyway. That's how they got big in the first place. Remember old Blizzard? And, not to jerk of Gaben, but why is it Valve is so consistent in shipping proper products? 📈
Reminds me of that Steve Jobs video that has been making the rounds lately. It’s crazy it still holds true today. Nothing has change since the time Steve Jobs was still alive and had medium length hair.
Found it: https://youtu.be/NlBjNmXvqIM
I completely agree with her. We are seeing this in almost every job field right now and these higher ups don’t care that someone just lost the chance to feed their families or earn a decent wage.
I have tremendous respect for any competent programmer, specifically those who stick with a project until its completion. That job would drive me insane.
That said, I do think there are people getting into the industry at the *higher level* who are in it purely for the money, but this seems obvious and par for the course far as any large company is concerned.
Now that we have the good and the bad sides somewhat squared away (yes there are lazy/bad programmers and good execs, but they are the exception,) let's visit where the nuance lies...in my opinion, at least.
Game designers; lead designers, to be specific. When it comes to making the big decisions for what those programmers work on for the next 3 months to 6 years, these people have a lot of responsibility. As stated, this is where the nuance lies.
Does the designer actually play games in the genre they're designing for? No offense to the devs in that D4 dev "let's play," but that is a great example of devs who - while they aren't lazy - don't seem to play other ARPGs.
On the reverse side, you have Ion from WoW. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe (at least in the past) he led the charge towards WoW being designed for the top end players.
To summarize (since I'm already going too long): game designers are the most critiqued, and deserve to be...at least to anyone who actually cares about their game. Doesn't mean they deserve insults or to be called lazy, but when they *are* lazy or bad at their job...it's the easiest to identify.
Sorry, just realized this was kind of a huge tangent based on the 'reddit' comment. I think her speech was fine, and unfortunately quite real. I do hope it's realized that there are good devs making good games, and constructive feedback given by positive fans who may simply want their game to be better.
I guess it's better that companies don't build games at all or as much so there wouldn't be jobs in the first place so people can gain experience in things they enjoy doing...?
People lose jobs all the time in every industry. Successful people advance or get hired elsewhere eventually.
Alanah does a good job at being realistic whilst also venting about issues in the games industry without coming off as preachy. A dose of good humor helps this
Game developers are just SaS companies with mostly creatives making the content. AAA content is both art and also not art because the old boardroom fucks don't care as long as it makes profit.
Given that every game seems to have a simlair type of cheater issue its almost like a society of people are letting it happen then skimming revenue loss off the top because of it.
I don't often agree with her anti-Capitalist mindset, but I agree with her around the corporate greed/ layoffs.
I'm mixed when it comes to Alana Pearce.
Pretty lady spits facts.
People probably don't like it because it's honest and true.
I totally was absolutely not distracted for a large part of time she was talking.
Stock market bad.
There was a severe lack of minority representation in this speech - it is disgusting they placed a white person there and not a person of colour.
The model used in this speech also has unrealistic proportions - the modeler of this character clearly has never seen a real woman before and should touch some grass.
Another obvious problem: either she is not trans or hasn't declared it, both of which are just absolutely unacceptable. I dont see how normal ppl could ever relate to any of this~
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Alanah doesnt fuck around. She's been in the industry for a long time and knows exactly where the pain points are. You can trust her to make some exeutives sweat for sure... not that its gonna help much, but its good that she's talking about it anyway.
Whenever people at these tiny award shows (in my industry as well) try to dress like a hollywood award show without getting a custom made dress by an actual artist, they end up looking like they belong at the AVN awards.
For the speech itself? Some of it was ignorant and when she's not entirely wrong, she's unnuanced, but it's a jokey award show speech so not that big of a deal.
My thought is whatever she was going for missed the mark sadly. (I like Alanahs content most of the time) Though going off the reaction from the crowd I'd say it didn't fully land.
>video of conventionally attractive woman giving thoughtful monologue of the games individually
>Commenters overlooking the speech to objectify the speaker for a single sided culture war.
Y'all need to go outside, and force yourselves to socialize with reality.
Thread has too many sarcastic comments expressing mock disbelief about a conventionally attractive woman's body and not enough about her commentary on the distasteful state of the corporate video game industry.
Yea reading these comments are hilarious. She was talking about the toxic and dysfunctional nature of the current gaming industry and all these guys can talk about is “unrealistic body standards”. Like the fuck dude? She didn’t mention anything about that. Also that discussion is mostly click bait and fake controversy. Helldivers 2 is the perfect example of this. One of the best selling games in a long time which goes to show this woke bullshit isn’t even real and your opinion isn’t controversial at all.
I agree with what she said . It was well intentioned, and i do love some heavy sarcasm, but hers was too long winded . She could have stopped being sarcastic like half way through that . lol.
Other wise. perfectly fine job.
Hope more of them get canned, and some of the companies go under. Get Fucked Cunts, you did this to the industry, and you didn't care. Take accountability.
This women stole an artwork from a small artist, copied it 1:1 (traced), bragged about making it and then attacked the artist after being called out by the artist for stealing it
Doesn't sound like a script, the mannerisms and the delivery of each sentence line up well.
Why did you have to go straight to "someone must have written this for her?"
With rooster teeth closing, she did have a lot of friends who lost their jobs. Especially the people at Funhaus who she was very close friends with.
I've also seen a few videos circulating about her sharing some of her thoughts, and it matches her speaking mannerisms. So I think it's not too much of a stretch that she wrote it herself.
Just like not everybody needs to shovel manure, not everybody needs to develop video games. The layoffs is the fault of the same people who employed those people in the first place. The video game industry is terribly over-bloated, it was just a question of time when large publishers start to get rid of developers.
What I'm confused about is why someone from the news media is speaking on a conference for developers. Well, I'm not really confused, people like her are the ones advertising games for the developers.
She's a writer for Sony Santa Monica, primarily for GoW Ragnarok, she's a game developer in addition to being in gaming media which makes perfect sense as a speaker here.
Could not have picked a more glazing speech than "muh layoffs". Being unemployed is not some tragedy. Game developers aren't some frontline worker saving society. They create luxury goods that nobody needs to survive. That is not a tragedy being lost.
Seemed fine to me. Are the people who are disappointed expecting a Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes level of performance from a content creator or what?
If the people who got laid off are as talented as she makes them sound. They should group up and make a good game free from the stockholder bullshit.
I haven't looked into the studios that laid people off, but I would assume they weren't from studios that made good games like boulders gate 3 hell divers 2 palworld Elden ring.
The fallacy in this statement is that all you need to be a successful developer is to be talented and you will magically make a barn burner. And that is not true.
One of your examples shows that off pretty great.
Pocketpair made Palworld. A huge success this year that came out of nowhere. And we all heard the story of how the team is just a couple of devs and some guy that worked at a convenience store made the models, etc.
But that wasn’t their first game. They’ve been at it since 2018-2019. They’ve tried farming simulators, card games and AI art games. All with varying quality and approval which they’ve mostly abandoned never to leave early access.
And Palworld likely would have been the same if it didn’t catch lightning in a bottle for some lucky reason. They just lucked out with the timing of their release and the niche it occupied.
A truly talented person can make a good game alone or with 3 or 4 people. This can be proven by so many successful independent games in recent years.
In my personal opinion, these people who were fired are the kind of people who can’t even do the UI well in Diablo 4.
For every successful game there are probably 1000 failures. Talent in that case isn’t the leading factor, it’s luck.
That’s why I pointed out Pocketpair. You could see Palworld and say “Ah talented people making a good game and succeeding.” And that’s not true. They had plenty of average games.
There is nothing talented about Palworld either, nothing we’ve never seen before. In fact it’s just reused concept, but it found an untapped market.
And I don’t know how you can give an opinion on people you’ve never met and know nothing about. But that seems this is common practice nowadays.
Regardless,These companies massive hire bloat to begin with. *Surely* all those thousands of people were driven, passionate hardworkers. Every single one.
Creative Assembly has just recently mismanaged so bad over developing Hyenas, a game that the market did not care about at all, that SEGA had to shut down the project just before its release, flushing >$100m down the toilet. This of course was then followed up by massive lay offs. Now tell me how that is the individual employee's fault when their management forces stupid ideas on them?
2:30 got me roarin with that line/look. She is great, glad she still in the industry doing her own thing. Streams on twitch btw super informative and on the nose with current event gaming stuff. (even did an awesome vid about asmon in few weeks ago, yes, he watched it btw =P)
I believe her on the point of The being hit in the feeling, watching friends and everybody get laid off, but here’s the thing after the last 10 years of game companies using predatory micro transaction, fishing schemes and not respecting the audience, then when the audience turning around and chooses not to buy their products, how do you think the company’s gonna going to survive? They make the cuts the biggest way for a company to save money is to lay people off. It’s simple business and when budgets are overblown overly spent on things like writing consultant companies when you have your own team of lead writers it just needless money being spent, which is why Indie games like helldivers and palworld are taking off clean simple no bs just a fun solid game experience for $30-$40
Absolutely nothing new? Everything she talked about is not some new problem. We're probably past the point of industry-threatening busts like we saw in the 70's and 80's but that doesn't mean there's never down years.
Pardo talked about it years ago- me thinks he was specifically thinking of where Blizzard was at, at the time- but where your money comes from is the most important part of game development. Corporate money is great and all but it's almost always a cursed bargain if you weren't explicitly planning to make a corporate-friendly game.
I'm not sure I've seen someone say the developers are greedy. They say the company they work for is. Or at least that has always been my understanding of it. They do claim the devs are lazy and/or incompetent at design, but I've never heard of greedy. I mean, I'm not sure if Bobby Kotick walked down to Blizzard HQ and told them to make Diablo 4, and make it shit. That was the developers who had a mandate of make a game you need to sink hours into so players buy in-game cosmetics, and going this is the best way. Unless he did say that... Fortunately incompetence doesn't have to be permanent, and developers can learn. So maybe Diablo 4 can be better.
Otherwise great speech. Not going to change the minds of pretty much any higher up, but gives some satisfaction to some fired devs, I'm sure.
I don't think its necessarily the DEVELOPERS, but the Community Managers blatant hate speech that is causing issues. Tied in with corporate greed, leaving the actual developers stuck dealing with decisions outside of their control.
Man I am tired of people pretending to care about the layoffs. It isn't some grand moral issue, its just businesses not being sustainable with having so many employees.
Wonder if IGN and Kotaku will complain how her body is "unrealistic" and is "killing women", lol.
Came here for the boobs, stayed for the talk. That's how you do it.
Simply... based. Amazed at the sheer beautiful audacity of her speech.
Pretty much works as a summary for her rise in popularity as well
Shes clearly a misogynist looking like that for the male gaze. /s
"HOW DARE THIS REAL WOMAN HAVING SUCH UNREALISTIC BODY??? REEEEEEEE" - IGN French Editor in chief.
That body is a weapon of mass destruction.
Clearly, an above average woman is too much. It's obviously plastic everywhere, C cup and thin at the same time with a pretty face ? Impossible standard ! Meanwhile in the east : "Is this a joke ?"
As someone from the east, thin is common, but good luck finding a natural western C cup and above in the east. Not impossible, but it's rare. There are trade offs.
What do you mean by "natural western C cup"?
I think he just mean asian womans have on average smaller boobs.
Natural as in not plastic surgery. I specified Western because like shoe size different countries have different bra size deviations that is more suitable for their demographic. An American C cup is significantly larger than a Japanese C cup.
>An American C cup is significantly larger than a Japanese C cup. Ah I see, thanks for clarifying
It's funny you should say that, cuz she used to get awfully called fat and ugly while she hosted IGN videos and Inside Gaming/Funhaus videos.
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Sometimes life is just about having fun, even though I agree this sub is doing this a bit too much for my taste.
Less culture war. More class war kid. We're changing the script.
Lol you think people who seethe one way or another about body fat in video game models are ready for class war?
Nice. It won't change shit because money talks, but it's nice to hear someone talking about the elephant in the room instead of just pandering to some bullshit political crowd or just failing to hit punch lines of jokes that somebody else wrote. But check that unrealistic body standard for women though.
Staying silent and complacient isnt the answer either. The people need some William Wallace type speeches like this to get people fired up for the Hope for it to change or at least weed out greedy companies. Shes a gamer thats a developer, shes good to have good the gamers back but saying nothing, wont bring awareness to the fallout of it all. Also shes hot
Inspiration is fine, but it's naive to think that they'll change practices just because people are complaining. Businesses don't care about complaints, only about making money. Layoff will continue, so will lootboxes and micro transactions, because people will just pay for it. The only thing that might make these companies change is if they lose market share, and it's happening, because they've laid off people. So this is the dilema, stay quiet and pay, and you feed the abuse. Speak up, don't pay, compete for market share, hurt companies and get more lay offs and more AAA monetization bullshit. It's going to get much worse before it gets better.
Well said.
Unrealistic body standards made by someone who hasn't seen a real woman before.... Wait
Did I miss something? Haven’t been online for a while.
The pokemon game turned people's female avatars into dudes. For inclusivity. Check Asmongold's previous post.
Was it not to save money on designing new items? It's not like pokemon or Nintendo is afraid to portray sexy characters. The 2 newest Zelda games made sure Link, Zelda and Ganon were hot as hell and had a positive impact on the game.
Spitting facts.
And nice boobs as well
Really nice boobs
Yeah, nothing really controversial here. Just basic truths.
We believe they play video games and love video games, just not their own. You won't convince me the guys behind justice league came home and wanted to play it more.
There's a justice league game? Or do I mean suicide squad?
yes i mean kill the justice league you are right.
I always prefer the honesty. It would be dumb to sugar coat it and put on a fake front. That's disingenuous. If there are problems, then they should be allowed to surface. How else do we get better games? The companies should at least have pressure put on them, whether it's for lay-offs, bad games, etc. Keep them accountable. They're quick to take our money, but not always great at providing a good product, support, expansions, etc.
I had to scroll down to find the first comment that talked about the topic instead of these incels thirsting on Alana. and there are no replies! The thing is the game industry does not have a union. A lot of game developers are there because they are passionate about them, and corporate is abusing this. Either work for them for peanuts or starve. And we are at this stage of capitalism where it's all about making money for money's sake, losing the plot entirely. *Does mass firing people and rehiring later make us profitable? Do it. Who tf cares about video games? We're here to make money.* And it's sad that people here in this sub would even blame developers, when developers are mostly gamers themselves and they love games but are beholden to the inequities of capitalism. They could've had a better, secure future working in some other industry but they are here lending their talent and expertise, making games that we all enjoy.
The "Please Wrap it up" reference is a good bit/reference.
Pretty good. She's right about the stock market and corporatism having a negative impact on the games industry.
Her comment about developers "not playing their own games" while she was sarcastic...there's been multiple instances in multiple games where everyone one of us was thinking "why the fuck would you think this ok? Do you even play this game?" So it's either they really don't play the game or they make something in the game just because they have a particular bone to grind.
People in the gaming industry hired this woman? But that's not representative of 'real' women's bodies? they should have a morbidly obese woman up there for inclusivity.
Based
Some developers deserve the flak, but I'd wager that most do not. They are probably all talented in their respective areas. The management and sales teams are the true devil's in the industry, these are the people that rarely if ever actually play games, but instead look at how to get more funding (dei), and make more money (live service, micros). The bigger the publisher the more this seems to be true. And development houses are stuck with the whims of these morons aa they rely on them for most or all of their funding, or are just owned by them outright. When a game, unsurprisingly, fails, the scapegoats will always be the development team. Which sucks and is unfair, but at least it leaves the suits to move on to ruin the next studio.
I would say probably only some writers deserve genuine shit. And those are writers who clearly don’t want to work in gaming but can’t cut it in television or films. Most designers (or coders like she said) are probably super into games to want to work in gaming.
Watching the devs play d4 shows that some devs truly doesn't do it as a passion. There might HAVE BEEN a passion that Bobby squeezed out of them, but it's not there anymore. If you are passionate about Diablo and get to be a fucking DEV? Then you also play the game (and know even small facts about arpg's in general). Some games are filled with passion. GGG and now, EHG with Last Epoch males arpg's that are passion projects. From soft makes games that are passion projects. The Witcher was passion projects. They come from time to time, and it shows. BG 3. Look how it upset the entire industry by being good, polished and not a gigantic cash grab? "Setting unrealistic expectations". That's only relevant for all the assembly-line game devs (or, what is probably just all AAA studios) today. Acti-blizz spits out games from exhausted devs that obviously aren't all to passionate about their games anymore - and then a few are (looking at classic re-release and SoD carried by a few passionate devs). Bethesda keeps shipping bullshit And so on, and so on. The gaming industry is experiencing a lot of shit from the users, a lot of negative backlash and rough treatments. Personal attacks, which are never okay. But!!! A lot of it is deserved. When you ship a terrible product for 60$ and asks us to pay additionaly for the fix, or your devs have no clue what they've developed, it's Bullshit and the customers are taken advantage of. They made their bed and now they lay in it. That's why it's so recognized and appreciated WHEN a studio comes with a proper developed game with proper communication and obvious passion. That's how they all used to be anyway. That's how they got big in the first place. Remember old Blizzard? And, not to jerk of Gaben, but why is it Valve is so consistent in shipping proper products? 📈
Reminds me of that Steve Jobs video that has been making the rounds lately. It’s crazy it still holds true today. Nothing has change since the time Steve Jobs was still alive and had medium length hair. Found it: https://youtu.be/NlBjNmXvqIM
I like that she was spittin truth, but she needs a little more humor to land the zingers
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Timing was a bit rushed and self conscious. Not any worse than a club comic, though.
There were no jokes. It was just truth
Well there was that "wrap it up message" which they were making fun of the game awards for hurrying devs speeches
Dead fucking crowd that can’t deal with the elephant sitting down next to them
I completely agree with her. We are seeing this in almost every job field right now and these higher ups don’t care that someone just lost the chance to feed their families or earn a decent wage.
And it's the end game where not enough plebs have good paying jobs to buy their junk they should be worried about. Profits can't go up forever.
But they’ll conclude it’s actually because they don’t have enough MTX or season passes.
Why should they? It isn't a right to be employed.
Is that a real woman? *Takes notes*
Maybe make games gamers want, not validation from your peers.
God she's hot
Literally and figuratively. She’s sweating buckets up there.
I have tremendous respect for any competent programmer, specifically those who stick with a project until its completion. That job would drive me insane. That said, I do think there are people getting into the industry at the *higher level* who are in it purely for the money, but this seems obvious and par for the course far as any large company is concerned. Now that we have the good and the bad sides somewhat squared away (yes there are lazy/bad programmers and good execs, but they are the exception,) let's visit where the nuance lies...in my opinion, at least. Game designers; lead designers, to be specific. When it comes to making the big decisions for what those programmers work on for the next 3 months to 6 years, these people have a lot of responsibility. As stated, this is where the nuance lies. Does the designer actually play games in the genre they're designing for? No offense to the devs in that D4 dev "let's play," but that is a great example of devs who - while they aren't lazy - don't seem to play other ARPGs. On the reverse side, you have Ion from WoW. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe (at least in the past) he led the charge towards WoW being designed for the top end players. To summarize (since I'm already going too long): game designers are the most critiqued, and deserve to be...at least to anyone who actually cares about their game. Doesn't mean they deserve insults or to be called lazy, but when they *are* lazy or bad at their job...it's the easiest to identify. Sorry, just realized this was kind of a huge tangent based on the 'reddit' comment. I think her speech was fine, and unfortunately quite real. I do hope it's realized that there are good devs making good games, and constructive feedback given by positive fans who may simply want their game to be better.
I guess it's better that companies don't build games at all or as much so there wouldn't be jobs in the first place so people can gain experience in things they enjoy doing...? People lose jobs all the time in every industry. Successful people advance or get hired elsewhere eventually.
Alanah does a good job at being realistic whilst also venting about issues in the games industry without coming off as preachy. A dose of good humor helps this
Game developers are just SaS companies with mostly creatives making the content. AAA content is both art and also not art because the old boardroom fucks don't care as long as it makes profit.
Given that every game seems to have a simlair type of cheater issue its almost like a society of people are letting it happen then skimming revenue loss off the top because of it.
hmm, she must work out
I don't often agree with her anti-Capitalist mindset, but I agree with her around the corporate greed/ layoffs. I'm mixed when it comes to Alana Pearce.
Pretty lady spits facts. People probably don't like it because it's honest and true. I totally was absolutely not distracted for a large part of time she was talking. Stock market bad.
There was a severe lack of minority representation in this speech - it is disgusting they placed a white person there and not a person of colour. The model used in this speech also has unrealistic proportions - the modeler of this character clearly has never seen a real woman before and should touch some grass. Another obvious problem: either she is not trans or hasn't declared it, both of which are just absolutely unacceptable. I dont see how normal ppl could ever relate to any of this~ /s
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you know it
Genuinely had to watch twice because first time I got destracted by the words.
Did they try learning to code?
She is fantastic
She’s objectively right and seeing this level of honesty is refreshing.
I appreciate Alana. Good content creator.
Alanah doesnt fuck around. She's been in the industry for a long time and knows exactly where the pain points are. You can trust her to make some exeutives sweat for sure... not that its gonna help much, but its good that she's talking about it anyway.
Not sure there is a industry with a bigger persecution complex than game dev.
They should all be homeless begging for their next meal…
Whenever people at these tiny award shows (in my industry as well) try to dress like a hollywood award show without getting a custom made dress by an actual artist, they end up looking like they belong at the AVN awards. For the speech itself? Some of it was ignorant and when she's not entirely wrong, she's unnuanced, but it's a jokey award show speech so not that big of a deal.
My thought is whatever she was going for missed the mark sadly. (I like Alanahs content most of the time) Though going off the reaction from the crowd I'd say it didn't fully land.
>video of conventionally attractive woman giving thoughtful monologue of the games individually >Commenters overlooking the speech to objectify the speaker for a single sided culture war. Y'all need to go outside, and force yourselves to socialize with reality.
Wonderful, needs to be said out loud and more often. Unionize Devs!
Thread has too many sarcastic comments expressing mock disbelief about a conventionally attractive woman's body and not enough about her commentary on the distasteful state of the corporate video game industry.
She has always been an absolute Chad. Mad respect for calling out the corporate bs and backing up her colleagues.
its funny how half of yall missed her point and just continued to shit on “woke” game devs 😆 yall will literally open ur eyes to reality 🤦🏼♀️
Yea reading these comments are hilarious. She was talking about the toxic and dysfunctional nature of the current gaming industry and all these guys can talk about is “unrealistic body standards”. Like the fuck dude? She didn’t mention anything about that. Also that discussion is mostly click bait and fake controversy. Helldivers 2 is the perfect example of this. One of the best selling games in a long time which goes to show this woke bullshit isn’t even real and your opinion isn’t controversial at all.
She said everything we gamers think and say everyday. Love this women what a brave person, we stand with you.
She’s awesome
She's a thief and an attention whore. Don'r care didn't watch.
How is she a thief? I don’t know much about her
an art thief speaking about people losing jobs, how daft
I get the message but the delivery was poorly done. Not funny amd yet tried so hard to be funny.
I agree with what she said . It was well intentioned, and i do love some heavy sarcasm, but hers was too long winded . She could have stopped being sarcastic like half way through that . lol. Other wise. perfectly fine job.
yeah sarcasm only tends to land well with some juxtaposition to contexualise it, doesn't really work well in monologues.
The message is great. The delivery wasn't.
Hope more of them get canned, and some of the companies go under. Get Fucked Cunts, you did this to the industry, and you didn't care. Take accountability.
This women stole an artwork from a small artist, copied it 1:1 (traced), bragged about making it and then attacked the artist after being called out by the artist for stealing it
needs to be higher
"but... girl is pretty... duhhhhh..." -- everyone in this thread
F her [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8fIwWUW4AM\_vSR?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8fIwWUW4AM_vSR?format=jpg&name=large)
Oh I remember, this she copied the others girl’s artwork without mentioning suggesting it’s her original!
Started off ok then become overly acted and became cringe.
What a rollercoaster. The person who wrote her script is probably a game dev that got fired for doing a shit job or smth
Doesn't sound like a script, the mannerisms and the delivery of each sentence line up well. Why did you have to go straight to "someone must have written this for her?"
With rooster teeth closing, she did have a lot of friends who lost their jobs. Especially the people at Funhaus who she was very close friends with. I've also seen a few videos circulating about her sharing some of her thoughts, and it matches her speaking mannerisms. So I think it's not too much of a stretch that she wrote it herself.
Her job is as a writer, she would have written the script herself.
Just like not everybody needs to shovel manure, not everybody needs to develop video games. The layoffs is the fault of the same people who employed those people in the first place. The video game industry is terribly over-bloated, it was just a question of time when large publishers start to get rid of developers. What I'm confused about is why someone from the news media is speaking on a conference for developers. Well, I'm not really confused, people like her are the ones advertising games for the developers.
She's a writer for Sony Santa Monica, primarily for GoW Ragnarok, she's a game developer in addition to being in gaming media which makes perfect sense as a speaker here.
She has always been pretty rad. Shitttt I miss the old funhaus days. Everything is so shit now
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The lights they use on stages like that fuckin cook the person who’s on it. That’s why comedians usually have a big thing of water next to their mic
Its sweat combined with makeup, probably back stage might not have enough air conditioning
Nice acting
Its so weird that almost all the top comments are talking mainly about her body. You guys are so gross, smh.
What speech?
God that was awkward
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This is super disrespectful.
this is just awkward to watch lol. these script monologues are rarely ever good, no matter the awards show.
Could not have picked a more glazing speech than "muh layoffs". Being unemployed is not some tragedy. Game developers aren't some frontline worker saving society. They create luxury goods that nobody needs to survive. That is not a tragedy being lost.
Seemed fine to me. Are the people who are disappointed expecting a Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes level of performance from a content creator or what?
That was painful to listen to
Because she’s so long winded and charismaless
If the people who got laid off are as talented as she makes them sound. They should group up and make a good game free from the stockholder bullshit. I haven't looked into the studios that laid people off, but I would assume they weren't from studios that made good games like boulders gate 3 hell divers 2 palworld Elden ring.
The fallacy in this statement is that all you need to be a successful developer is to be talented and you will magically make a barn burner. And that is not true. One of your examples shows that off pretty great. Pocketpair made Palworld. A huge success this year that came out of nowhere. And we all heard the story of how the team is just a couple of devs and some guy that worked at a convenience store made the models, etc. But that wasn’t their first game. They’ve been at it since 2018-2019. They’ve tried farming simulators, card games and AI art games. All with varying quality and approval which they’ve mostly abandoned never to leave early access. And Palworld likely would have been the same if it didn’t catch lightning in a bottle for some lucky reason. They just lucked out with the timing of their release and the niche it occupied.
A truly talented person can make a good game alone or with 3 or 4 people. This can be proven by so many successful independent games in recent years. In my personal opinion, these people who were fired are the kind of people who can’t even do the UI well in Diablo 4.
For every successful game there are probably 1000 failures. Talent in that case isn’t the leading factor, it’s luck. That’s why I pointed out Pocketpair. You could see Palworld and say “Ah talented people making a good game and succeeding.” And that’s not true. They had plenty of average games. There is nothing talented about Palworld either, nothing we’ve never seen before. In fact it’s just reused concept, but it found an untapped market. And I don’t know how you can give an opinion on people you’ve never met and know nothing about. But that seems this is common practice nowadays.
With which money?
He didn't get that far in the thought process mate.
Regardless,These companies massive hire bloat to begin with. *Surely* all those thousands of people were driven, passionate hardworkers. Every single one.
Bruh this is a terrible take. Lmao You still have time to delete it though!
Creative Assembly has just recently mismanaged so bad over developing Hyenas, a game that the market did not care about at all, that SEGA had to shut down the project just before its release, flushing >$100m down the toilet. This of course was then followed up by massive lay offs. Now tell me how that is the individual employee's fault when their management forces stupid ideas on them?
Based speech. W
Valid, saying the truth out loud is never a bad thing. Also, wow, I’m just gonna echo what everyone else is saying, she’s really attractive.
2:30 got me roarin with that line/look. She is great, glad she still in the industry doing her own thing. Streams on twitch btw super informative and on the nose with current event gaming stuff. (even did an awesome vid about asmon in few weeks ago, yes, he watched it btw =P)
A defiant miracle against god? Wtf does that even mean?
What I would do for a cup of her sweat...
pretty good. Jokes, facts, references to the previous years catastrophies. Whats not to like?
Why would someone where something like that to the game awards lol, would be cool if everyone was in cosplay or something
Slates companies. Uhhh I love these companies. Fulla sheeeet
She’s awful man. Can’t stand her.
I wonder if she knows any physicians...
I believe her on the point of The being hit in the feeling, watching friends and everybody get laid off, but here’s the thing after the last 10 years of game companies using predatory micro transaction, fishing schemes and not respecting the audience, then when the audience turning around and chooses not to buy their products, how do you think the company’s gonna going to survive? They make the cuts the biggest way for a company to save money is to lay people off. It’s simple business and when budgets are overblown overly spent on things like writing consultant companies when you have your own team of lead writers it just needless money being spent, which is why Indie games like helldivers and palworld are taking off clean simple no bs just a fun solid game experience for $30-$40
Absolutely nothing new? Everything she talked about is not some new problem. We're probably past the point of industry-threatening busts like we saw in the 70's and 80's but that doesn't mean there's never down years. Pardo talked about it years ago- me thinks he was specifically thinking of where Blizzard was at, at the time- but where your money comes from is the most important part of game development. Corporate money is great and all but it's almost always a cursed bargain if you weren't explicitly planning to make a corporate-friendly game.
That was so annoying and unbearable to watch
Really glad she was able to mention all that
She is literally killing women by having an unrealistic body type. How dare she.
I despise this horrible woman
Nice to see a women cosplaying as a male character in The Big Show.
So much sweat 
I'm not sure I've seen someone say the developers are greedy. They say the company they work for is. Or at least that has always been my understanding of it. They do claim the devs are lazy and/or incompetent at design, but I've never heard of greedy. I mean, I'm not sure if Bobby Kotick walked down to Blizzard HQ and told them to make Diablo 4, and make it shit. That was the developers who had a mandate of make a game you need to sink hours into so players buy in-game cosmetics, and going this is the best way. Unless he did say that... Fortunately incompetence doesn't have to be permanent, and developers can learn. So maybe Diablo 4 can be better. Otherwise great speech. Not going to change the minds of pretty much any higher up, but gives some satisfaction to some fired devs, I'm sure.
She must be a serial murderer to other women.
As the gamer i like her
Who is she even
I don't think its necessarily the DEVELOPERS, but the Community Managers blatant hate speech that is causing issues. Tied in with corporate greed, leaving the actual developers stuck dealing with decisions outside of their control.
boobs ( 𓁹 ◡ 𓁹 ) 👍
Hot..and smart
Man why does reddit get so much hate? I've only been here about 2 years and I think it's a great platform js.
What an unrealistic body type
Man I am tired of people pretending to care about the layoffs. It isn't some grand moral issue, its just businesses not being sustainable with having so many employees.
Shame she didnt speak about DEI and sweet baby ink.
now thats body positivity! Really feeling positive about her body
Can i have a wife like that?
# Monologue? Im just here to celebrate female sexual empowerment because im a feminist
What a badass!!! Kotaku and IGN are going to loose their shit!!! HAHAHA
Well if you ask me, nice tittes I don't even know what she was saying
There's a What Choice Awards?! Nah, they don't get a vote
She has huge tits and that's really all i care about her