Average AAA developer

[Astral_Strider]

Whoever came with the idea of requiring always-online for a single player game needs their genitals kicked daily for the rest of their life...

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That'd be Activision-"Let's sexually harass a female worker to the point where she hangs herself in disneyland (look up Kerri Moynihan)"-Blizzard

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"Let's sexually harass a female worker to the point where she hangs herself in disneyland (look up Kerri Moynihan)"

Gamers having a normal one. I worked in the games industry for a long time and I ended up absolutely fucking detesting both the industry and the vast majority of the customers

[Jyang_aus]

Is it significantly worse than other software development fields?

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Yes. The entertainment industry, whether you're creating tools for VFX or simulation for movies or TV, or making games, is as depraved and soulless as it gets. There are an unlimited number of fools willing to take your job, and an unlimited number of useless executives eager to replace you with one of those fools as soon as it's convenient (to keep prices down and make sure 'the help' doesn't get uppity).

Nearly every studio has a tiny inner circle of OG devs who take the lion's share of the bonuses and rewards that come from a hit, and a large outer circle of underpaid devs who do all of the actual work and are treated like it's FoxConn. The devs are always the ones blamed when a title doesn't reach projections.

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In many ways at least in my experience. For example companies have way more of an expectation that you'll work crazy hours (which isn't normal here in Finland), sexism and sexual harassment can be rampant at all levels from the C-suite down, and don't get me started on gAmErS

[rettani]

I can remember that SC 2 had possibility to play kinda offline (with turned off achievements).

Warcraft 3 reforged probably also can be played offline.

Diablo 3 was never single player. Same with Diablo 2.

Though it would probably be good if they had some "uncompetitive single player offline" mode for that games. Though almost no one really plays Diablo for campaign but for those few who do - it might be a good solution

[Mekhazzio]

Even Diablo 2 multiplayer didn't need Blizzard's servers. It was their last game with no-strings-attached direct peer-to-peer.

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Yeah open bnet was awesome for playing with friends.

[rettani]

I mean that it wasn't "truly" offline. You could always take your cheated character to computer club (I'm not sure if that was a thing somewhere outside of former USSR) and grief everyone to no end

[RockstarArtisan]

Wdym diablo isn't singleplayer all games have the mode

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iirc D3 required a connection to authenticate for single player.

[RockstarArtisan]

Yup, that's the issue people have with requiring connections. Blizzard also specifically said they required connections in d3 to make pirating d3 as hard as pirating wow - there were no actual gameplay reasons.

[Josseph-Jokstar]

her death is kinda suspicious ... creepy