“The speed-running through awards was flat out insulting, and only giving the actual devs 30 seconds to speak while prioritizing Hollywood actors being on stage was so gross,” Kayla Glover, a game producer at Bungie, told The Verge.
This year’s Game Awards featured a bunch of celebrity appearances, including Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Mackie, Simu Liu, Timothée Chalamet, and the muppet Gonzo.
Josh Sawyer, director of Pentiment, posted on X (formerly Twitter), “This year’s The Game Awards is an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation via star power with little respect for the devs it’s supposedly honoring.”
What didn’t make it into the show was just as upsetting — because the general refrain of 2023 is that it’s been an amazing year for the quality of games released but awful for the folks who worked on them as an unprecedented number of layoffs has seen over 6,000 people lose their jobs.
“I’m incredibly disappointed in Geoff Keighley for his silence on the state of the industry this year after being so willing to publicly call out Konami in 2015 on behalf of Kojima for mistreatment,” he told The Verge.
“I was hoping for the bare minimum, maybe a one minute motivational speech about how they know it was a tough year for us but they see and appreciate the hard work and passion we put into our games,” said another member of the Future Class who wished to remain anonymous, as they feared they were risking their job for speaking out in support of Palestine.
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“The speed-running through awards was flat out insulting, and only giving the actual devs 30 seconds to speak while prioritizing Hollywood actors being on stage was so gross,” Kayla Glover, a game producer at Bungie, told The Verge.
This year’s Game Awards featured a bunch of celebrity appearances, including Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Mackie, Simu Liu, Timothée Chalamet, and the muppet Gonzo.
Josh Sawyer, director of Pentiment, posted on X (formerly Twitter), “This year’s The Game Awards is an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation via star power with little respect for the devs it’s supposedly honoring.”
What didn’t make it into the show was just as upsetting — because the general refrain of 2023 is that it’s been an amazing year for the quality of games released but awful for the folks who worked on them as an unprecedented number of layoffs has seen over 6,000 people lose their jobs.
“I’m incredibly disappointed in Geoff Keighley for his silence on the state of the industry this year after being so willing to publicly call out Konami in 2015 on behalf of Kojima for mistreatment,” he told The Verge.
“I was hoping for the bare minimum, maybe a one minute motivational speech about how they know it was a tough year for us but they see and appreciate the hard work and passion we put into our games,” said another member of the Future Class who wished to remain anonymous, as they feared they were risking their job for speaking out in support of Palestine.
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