I gotta side with mr. Wenzen on this one. Redfall is being sold as a $70 game ($90 in Canada). that is a AAA game price, so it should be judged by AAA game standards

indeed. very calm and cool, fit the character imo

I think it depends on the person... If you are in a bad situation with pay, co-workers/boss, being overworked etc. then obviously you should leave.

I think beyond that, it depends on how career focused you are... I've been at my company for almost 8 years, and even though i'm not super inspired by my work anymore, its an awesome company to work at, fairly low stress, and pays enough to support my life style comfortably. I'm not excited to start my work day, but I don't dread it either. I do my job, do it well, but I don't make a big effort to go above and beyond.

I know people who wouldn't be satisfied with that, who are very career focused and want to get promoted/climb the ladder and be constantly challenged etc. but I'm more focused on enjoying my life outside of work, and not having a job that prevents me from doing that or gets in the way.

I like seeing devs branch out, as long as the desire to do so comes internally and isn't forced upon them from a publisher.

Eg. the difference between High Fi Rush and Redfall as recent examples

this is a common thread for a lot of the layoffs happening at big tech companies

I think some games run on linux, but not all - would need to do the research and look at the games you want to play, to see if Linux is supported. In general, you are better off with Windows though for strictly gaming purposes.

I had a friend who dual-booted his PC, ie. had both windows and Linux installed, would use windows for gaming and linux for everything else. I don't think that is too hard to set up

I would also like to get in on some Darktide, shoot me a message if the time zones line up somehow lol

yes, ranting and cursing before the activity is a important part of the process.

maybe the internal reviewers were afraid they'd get canned if they were too harsh/honest? I'm also confused by what Phil means when he said the mock reviews got "double digits."

is 60 not a double digit number?

imagining some conversation where some underling is like "ah shit, Phil wants to know how the internal reviews went. what do we tell him??" "ah just tell him they got double digits and see what happens"

yea, you are probably right. I guess all we can do is hope Redfall sells very poorly (and that MS interprets that in a way that will ultimately benefit gamers, not in a "we need to dismantle the studio" kind of way)

has a similar vibe to when EA forced Visceral Games to make a BF title, which I believe resulted in that studio being dismantled after it bombed if I'm remembering correctly (only it wasn't MS that wanted Arkane to make a co-op loot shooter in this case)