"and what proof do we have the Bobby kotick is more valuable than the most profitable piece of entertainment in human history?" It's the question shareholders should be asking
Ah yes, there are 300 cookies and 20 people. Bobby Kotick takes 290 of the cookies and lays off 10 people so everyone can get a cookie. The proportions are probably closer then would be comfortable for anyone. edit: Adjusted the numbers to closer reflect the reality.
I'd probably change it around some; There are 500 cookies, and 1000 total workers in the company. Well, Kotick takes 250 cookies for his personal cookie jar, then there are 200 cookies that go to the investors. That leaves 50 cookies, so. Kotick decides it's better to fire 250 people, leaving just 750. That way, each of those 750 will get .06667 of a cookie, then once the fiscal year has ended and the company is woefully understaffed and overworked, they will hire a couple hundred people back, for the lowest possible cookie rate, say .025 cookies per year.
Yeah, if he earns the reported 300+ times the average worker they'd get about one cookie each for his 300. So maybe your proportions undersold it even.
Yes. Was gonna say this. This is not a game problem, it's a system-wide problem. The designated winners of the system can never lose or be forced to actually do labor in the interest of the product, because the company is the actual product to them. To make it look juicy to he financial markets. And the financial markets are a giant money elevator for people who are already rich. Nobody above project lead gives two shits about what is made just by the way the companies are structured. All is sacrificed to the dark gods of the investor class.
The idea that games are expensive and we should be grateful is a insult when you see ceos taking gross bonuses while their employees can barely afford a meal
Agreed, kinda reminds me of the industrial revolution period, ya know andrew carnagie and rockifella making big bucks while working their workers to death for almost no pay. Seems the game industry has taken note of that and ran with it. Another parallel is us waiting for the government to brake up monopolies. Not to mention Bidin (im not getting political here its something he literally said on tv and was shown) wants to raise the corprate tax and quote "make these companies pay their taxes" something to that effect, while i am of the opinion everyone should pay their taxes, thing is then we the people just end up paying more to compensate for the companies expense.
@@jaywerner8415 I hate to agree but it's true. What they need to do is close the loopholes and the tax havens. Only way to actually make the businesses pay their share. Until then nothing will change.
@@vellathewench I mean we all know everyone tries to not pay their taxes (well not everyone, those that know how. Everyone hates taxes) and yes they really need to get around closing all those tax loopholes, But till then if thats the case then raising/lowering the tax doesn't really help and just makes things worse for everyone. Meanwhile ya keep hearing all these stories of the EXECS getting all of these MILLIONS on MILLIONS of bonuses (i know its probably not all money its a net worth kind of thing) and people get layed off. Talk about bad business practices, Oh and several companies in game industry defending lootboxes despite anyone with 2 brain cells can tell you its gambling. (True scum they are)
@@jaywerner8415 People probably wouldn't be chuffed about taxes so much if earnings and prices were post-tax instead of pre-tax. But gotta keep the commoners down with an extra bit of inconvenience.
@@Ashley-lm4nv No super wealthy person has ever worked a hard day in their life. There is no "judge a book by their cover" here. I don't even know how you think this applies here.
@@scoobydoobers23 I would assume they mean incredibly wealthy. The kind where you could lose 99% of what you have and still have more than you could ever spend.
@@vellathewench Every poor person buys crap he didn't need at all or should not buy in the first place, including me. Please tell Bill Gates that he didn't ever work a hard day in his life. But still there should be a limit how much money one single person can aquire.
Yea but the restrooms have the least traffic when it comes to the workers. Kitchens are more than likely much cleaner than the bathrooms. That’s just the saying of a customer that doesn’t know any better from my experience. Then again customers complaining about the bathrooms in restaurants i’ve worked in were all fucking ludicrous but still lol
I think the other reason Iwata's salary cut mattered was because, from everything I've heard, he did come to power from within the industry and actually cared about it. Unlike Kotic he actually had an idea of what it was like to be the one making the games, and thus his pay cut could be from actual empathy instead of calculation.
"Don't pirate video games or we'll have to lay off all these hard working employees #cryingEmoji" ... "We had to lay off employees so our CEOs could 'earn' bonuses high enough that they could buy multiple houses every year for the rest of their lives" Yeah that went about as expected
What pisses me off is not that they can buy multiple houses or yachts with that money they siphon off their game companies, but they could literally fund more games that make them more money with that money! The exec pay is preventing the company from producing more products.
@@seraphphyx Nope. They have a limited number of teams as having too many produced at once means you'll compete with your own games as you release them. They'd still go at around the same rate entirely to ensure they don't compete with their own self.
If you think an executive cutting his bonus from $200 million to $100 million is a noble gesture, you’re the reason “your games” are getting ruined. Edit: Also, if you think inclusiveness is ruining “your games”, you’ve been manipulated by big business.
Nah, they're the reason that executives are able to fuck everyone over and craft legislation that protects them in general rather than just with games.
Games are like Crack to a child. The thought of "Whether this game was made through exploitation" doesn't go through their undeveloped Heads. Every game company that has a history of exploiting their developers should should BY LAW! have a "This Game was developed through exploitation" Warning on the game box or on their Steam and GOG, Epic page. If they want rid of it? They change their ways.
Sad part is a lot of people will be impressed by that automatically while the employees are still overworked and underpaid. As long as you get your content...
No no, you see, this video is only about video games. They said so themselves. Surely none of this would apply to the rest of the world? Wouldn't that be making vIdEo gAMeS pOlItICaL?
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat CEOs aren't needed, per se, they just naturally occur as a result of starting a company. The company does not need a CEO to run, but people who start companies become executives. It's sort of a paradox. The better a CEO is at their job, the less they are needed. Then again, greedy CEOs and investors can shove it.
@@Ignas_ CEOs don't come from people who start companies, its a choice in how the company is organized that gives people who have only given money towards the product outsized control over the profits that developers produce.
@@azertyQ companies that employ 10 people can have a "CEO" too, and that, more that likely, will be the founder; but yes, for anything above few hundred people it's unlikely it is the founder
@@sluttyMapleSyrup That's not how salary works, but then again you would know that if you've ever had a job. What it means is they won't be able to afford bonuses. When the bonuses alone are enough to produce a half dozen games, don't be so dense as to suggest my downloading the game is depriving some worker of their pay.
I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear onv
Bobby Kotick cutting his base pay while leaving his bonuses alone is like someone ordering a triple cheeseburger and extra-large fries and then claiming they're on a diet because they get a diet coke.
Remember that scene in Jurassic Park where Dennis Nedry was handed a giant suitcase full of money and then when the check came he looks at the man who just handed him the giant suitcase full of money and said "Don't get cheap on me, Dodgson?" That's the executive class.
@@noid0593 The Gamers™ wouldn't go that far. At most they'd expect a hero to save individuals one instance at a time while continuing to contribute to the oppressive system that plagues them. Why suffer the effort of a collective good when passive, comparative victories are more immediately gratifying?
@@noid0593 Not like socialism has ever led to a minority holding the majority of power and wealth while also routinely leading to famine and hundreds of millions of deaths.
Honestly, your theory that game executives take so much money to spend on snorting cocaine makes the most sense out of any theory I've seen. It would certainly explain why they continue to make bafflingly stupid decisions over and over, even when everyone tells them that their decisions are bafflingly stupid.
I mean it makes sense, they probably got a few yachts, luxury homes in every state, and yet they still cant spend it all. So of course they spend it on DRUGS.
I'm always impressed by the amount and variety of great stock images / videos that Jim can find for their videos. So many clips of money counting, tossing, dancing, kissing, etc. So many videos of nameless corporate crowds sitting around chummily or clapping at nothing. So many great images to use
@@djchristian82 They're probably made by lots of different people all around the world and licenced to the stock image/video company, that's usually how it works
It's to the point where finding out that Bobby Kotick had an extreme cocaine addiction would actually make him a more likeable guy because then you could at least explaining his greed in human terms as opposed to some alien contest of having the most zeroes in a bank account possible.
Same with taxes, you are helping the evil globalists in their evil causes. If there's a god, and if there's a judgement day, the fuckers will blame us.
@@Alice89chan da fuc are you on about? My father never had Soyboy Internet, he was a MAN, he had big burly books. You? You couldn't handle a book without getting a papercut. Go back to your liberal safespace before you get hurt.
@@JimSterling quick question because my question may be lost in the sea of comments. How the hell have you become so trim so quickly? Was it the wrestling training? A serious question coming from a thiccboi myself.
Those 865 people received an average bonus of $34,450 while the board guys that decided to release the unfinished game received an average bonus of $5.6 million. Jesus Christ....
When Jim says they broke the game and won capitalism the metaphor I have in mind is to compare wealth with fighting Earth's gravity. At some point all you need is a precise amount of money to break from it and flow indefinitely into space with all the other billionaires. I even get as far as to think this might well be an evolutionary step needed by any human being that wish to survive in the long run. And then I usually start depressing a bit 😅😭
I remember, once upon a time, that the 'reason' CEOs and board members got paid so much was because said people "Make the tough choices, and if they choose poorly, THEY are the ones who suffer the consequences of that choice." Maybe, once upon a time, that may have even held true. For the very very few willing to hold themselves to it. Or the small companies who really will be buried if their leadership screws up bad enough. But even when I was young and first heard that, it was hard to truly believe. Now? Yeeeeaaah, they don't even PRETEND to be responsible for anything that happens under their watch. And the only people who suffer the consequences is everyone ELSE.
Yea even smaller businesses do this. As a small time tradesman working for sketchy people I've had this experience more than one: -The owner pays themselves a massive salary instead of reinvesting in the business, drives a big new truck while employees all drive rusted out clunkers. - employees are mostly paid poorly but billed out at extravagant rates so the owner makes bank and the customer pays dearly. -Then the owner makes "mistakes" that cause the business to fail (usually by cutting corners that lead to a lawsuit). Employees lose job and income, owner losses business but keeps all their gains and register's a new business under another name and is back in business by the end of the week. Of course not every business person is like this but it seems like our society encourages this kind of business while taking a dump on anyone who isn't an entrepreneur. Meanwhile actually trying to get into business I'm competing with people who hire an army of underpaid people, so it's very difficult to offer competitive rates if I'm actually paying fair wages for fair work.
Or if you legitimately try to fix a mistake that caused a customer grief you're often out of pocket and possibly taken to court, compared to the dishonest business person who closes the business and declares bankruptcy, only to have their brother or friends register a new business and repeat the cycle. It's filthy seeing the attitude these guys have behind closed doors too, not a single concern for human lives outside their own accumulation of property and toys.
That's another difference between Iwata and Kotick - Iwata was a ground-floor coder, and played videogames as a hobby, and rose through the ranks, even rolling up his sleeves and helping to fix a broken Smash Bros Melee so it could ship on time. He knew what it was like to be on the ground floor. If you have CEOs I think there should be some kind of rule that they have to have worked inside the company doing the work that makes the product. And all people shit on Iwata for was having financially failed products. All while under his leadership he made fantastic games, which is why the Wii U's games are being milked by the current leadership.
And don't forget: Bobbert Kotterk hates goodwill so much that he decided to put Toys for Bob, the studio behind Spyro Reignited and Crash 4, working on CoD. Because we can't have an Activision studio not eventually working on CoD. 30 years from now, Blizzard will be making CoD.
30 years sure is optimistic, I'd say 3 to 5 at this rate. Blizzard has lost so much sway with the community and I honestly see Activision seeing their IP's as a waste of resources at this point. Hell, at this point, I don't even refer to them as Activision Blizzard, I've already just given up and began calling them Activision. Especially with the shifty looking future of Overwatch 2, and yes, I full well know that Overwatch popularised loot boxes, but with their leadership more than likely being replaced an Activision puppet, I am terrified of what we're going to see with the sequel.
It's always sad to see how the executives tie increases in video game cost to their own compensation, in a similar manner to pharmaceutical companies price gouging individual cancer treatment pills to increase each executive's compensation by $500,000. It seems like every dollar of compensation given to video game executives decreases the budget of a title's potential, so the development team must make up for it by releasing a partial game with loot boxes and micro-transactions. With all the public mass layoffs, it seems unsustainable.
He would notice, people that rich hate to lose a dime to poor people, but yes in reality it would not really hurt his bank account allthough Booby Cucktip would kill to not lose that money.
@@pinoarias8601 They. It's grammatically correct as a singular pronoun and it's how they're comfortable. Misgendering intentionally is harassment and just a dick move.
The money is the point. It's a game to see just how rich you can get. No joke. There was an investment book I read a few years back and the authors basically admitted it.
Sometines it just feels like they have reached a degree of power so beyond us regular people, it just becomes a big thought experiment to them. They can do whatever they want,and pull all sorts of bullcrap on us, while making bank.
"There's gotta be a point" The point seems to be for them to keep as much money as possible, so that the people at the bottom can't get it, because when the people have enough to not be in survival mode constantly, they start to demand change. If people have enough food to have energy to make demands, they will. If too many are given nothing, we get to "Eat the rich" territory. But if people are given too little, they'll be more focused on making what they have last, and fighting over scraps. They won't have enough energy, focus, or time to demand that things get better. Funny thing is, the pandemic threw a curveball in the form of people being separated from their work for long enough to know exactly what was wrong with it, and the delay on unemployment benefits and stimulus checks put us closer to the "eat the rich" stage than we've ever been.
@@shelbypowell9919 on that one, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy don't make the distinction (plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/), and it is an academic open access documentation base.
@@Elyseon sort of? It’s more complicated than that. Morals tend to involve the norms expected by a society, while ethics involve right and wrong in the context of philosophy. The best example I have is the justice system. It’s immoral to allow criminals to walk free. But the US constitution guarantees (on paper) the right of every accused to a fair trial, as well as a whole bunch of other protections. We acknowledge that some criminals will walk free when that is done correctly, but we do it anyway because it is unethical to wrongfully punish an innocent person. It is considered wrong, but ultimately acceptable to us that the guilty will walk free if that’s the only way to guarantee (supposedly) that the innocent won’t be wrongfully punished. It was once moral to own slaves, but it has always been unethical. Capitalism is moral, but unethical. Vigilante justice is immoral, but an argument can be made for its ethics. It’s all relative, and difficult, and very frustrating to try and debate the purpose of ethics to someone who believes they are necessarily morally right. Grumble grumble.
i hope everyone in this comment section knows that no matter how much you dislike someone, accusing someone who is jewish of having horns is really damn antisemetic
Can we all just appreciate the "no f**ks given" face Jim has when that dog was doing it's thing for way too long? You're such a treasure. Thank God for you.
Meanwhile, the US top marginal tax rate for individuals went from 70% in 1964, to just 37% today. And the business for tax havens is booming more than ever.
Dear Jim - as you presented your new toy's... Musical prowess, my puppy stopped biting everything in sight, sat its ass down and listened. THANK YOU. I'm gonna need a 10 hour version of that please.
Nothing is more fitting than Bobby Kotick with Devil Horns. Brought to you by everybodies favorite pansexual over weight wrasslin star in a wig. It is Ma'am!
It's the end part that got me ... It's that moment you genuinely think to yourself "there has to be another reason surely, it can't be that they just want to one up eachother?"
No matter how often you're told to stop going on about the same thing. No matter how often you get buzz labels thrown at you. Never, while you are sill able, never stop fighting this. The richer someone is the less accountability they have & its gross. We'd strongly disagree on a few things. But this I wholeheartedly stand with you on.
looking at it as an employee its interesting. i would never give away my 500 dollar bonus, maybe spend some part of it on good meals with family and stuff. but never say no. is 1000 enough? is 3000 enough? is 5000 enough? is 10000 enough? is 100 000 enough to say "no i dont need all of this"? but i believe if i got extra 200 mil i would keep 1 mil (on top of the 30 million salary) and with the 199 i could rebuild some region of Senegal or something.
@@kallemetsahalme5701 Money is a means to get what you want. Just having money is meaningless(if I have 200 mil I would buy a castle or a mecha). I don't know what Bobby is buying though
@@aokhoinguyenang3992 Continuing to own that much money usually is to buy power in order to keep getting obscene amounts of money. It's a circle that's kept rolling by underpaid overworked employees and too many politically inept apathetic "gamers".
Me listening to the dog toy further for a full minute: "Ugh. Why do I bother with this channel?" Me listening to Stephanie dropping blistering hot facts about the game industry: "Fuck me, I love this shit."
"There has to be a reason." I swear. SWEAR. its a form of hoarding we haven't (dared) categorised. Dragons syndrome. They just want to see the number get bigger.
I just started watching, but by the title alone this is gonna be a banger. Edit: I love how hard you went on Kotick. I've seen a lot of people praising him halving his pay, but like you said, he still brings home entirely too much. 200% bonuses for games that aren't finished/unpolished at launch.
I know it's a joke, but it's actually true. The dog farting and burping didn't do anything for the games industry, but it didn't hurt it either. Meanwhile CEOs actually hurt the games industry. Thus, the dog has done more for the industry!
When I first saw this news over the weekend, I IMMEDIATELY thought of what Jim was gonna say about it... which is weird, because I pretty much already knew what he'd say, because of how nakedly cynical all this is.
Depressed people should be like, me when I think bad thoughts I literary deletes them from my mind. I am also not fatter than Peter Griffin, with an "addictive" personality.
@@hawkevick9184 Your attempt at being misinformed about how depression works is noted. As are your attempts at insults towards the channel runner. ...and your spelling. Have a wonderful day!
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 I was not telling them to don't be depressed. I was telling them to think themselves healthy, using the power of will power. There is nothing stupid about that. I know that out of personal experience when my father died to Cancer at the age of 43.
@@hawkevick9184 bereavement is not the same as depression, and yes, telling someone to just think away their mental illness actually is telling someone to just think away their mental illness, stop being stupid, please.
Still waiting on that superhero that just throws CEO's of companies out the window until they get the hint and stop being the worst parasites the world can describe.
You know, having taken a couple of management courses as part of my degrees, I'm always struck by how the way chief executives are compensated flies in the face of what people are taught about structuring companies to encourage good decision making.
It's not really about that though - the lie that they're paid so much for their "valuable expertise" is just how they justify it, but even the most spectacular failures will see those CEOs rehired in a similar position with a similar amount of $$$. The executive class looks after their own and looks after their class interests, the hierarchy is about keeping them on top and everyone else justifying it
18:24 - 18:37 “They can’t just be having money just for the sake of it. There’s gotta be a point? There’s gotta be. Hasn’t there?” Jim, I think you have just answered your own question.
"What I'm saying, folks, is that ya'll need to seize the means of development." Thank god for Jim. They truly understand the struggle that has been going on for centuries.
Parasites have the potential to be useful unlike CEOs! There is medical research going into using parasites to help with preventing allergies and autoimmune disorder.
Love that you're talking about how bonuses are a racket. Employee bonuses are a tactic to justify a shittier salary, executive bonuses are just tax evasion.
Yep. Got a job at Ubisoft Toronto for a decent annual bonus for a lesser salary. A year later and they never paid me, or even brought it up. Thinking about lawyering up, but it's so hard to go after the big guys.
Thank you so much for the detailed captions. It's so refreshing whenever there are captions that make it easier for me to understand what's being said. Or know what a fart dog is doing. ---------- Is there any way to eliminate the executive class in any industry? It always feels like because they have all the money, nothing normal people can do could ever make them change. Am I being pessimistic?
Many saw CD Project Red as some sort of saviour, a Robin Hood, a company by and for the players, the Industrys good guys. But now we see they are not much better than any of the others.
@Liberation. I'm not sure that's true because most of the high level leadership seems to have been with CDPR for a while. I really think they just got glossy eyed and overly confident like everyone exposed to great success and wealth. Their belief that they could do no wrong after Witcher 3 lead them to hype up and develop a type of game they've never done before at a scale the studio had never attempted. Things went terribly but they're all so rich now they probably don't care, not because they're new greedy people, just because immense wealth changes people and their priorities.
It cost about $330 million to make cyberpunk. His random bonus was more that half of the entire development cost of the most costly game of the past 5 years. He could single handedly fund another Cyberpunk with a personal check from a SINGLE bonus check...
That should not surprise, look at Blizz before Activision they made roughly 100mill a month off of just WoW of only needed 30 mill to pay staff and server/game matainence and thats off just 1 game so thats alot of money went to the higher ups. Keep in mind they make more now due to microtransactions.
I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling that everyone else thinks I’m crazy for questioning why C-deck and the board make the money they do. Regardless of Industry. All workers should own part of the company and have a say. But it would be nice if Cdeck and board members actually did any real work that match their pay.
But then again this rich class that makes up such a small percent of the population don’t realize when the working and poor have nothing left to eat the only thing we can do is eat the rich.
My theory is that each of these incredibly rich CEO's is secretly building their own Mechagodzilla deep underground and when they're finished they shall all fight each other for control of the universe. Maybe Bobby's Mechagodzilla could have big horns and a creepy toothy smile.
Just realized kotick's 200 mill is the entire development cost of gtav. they could have made gtav and instead they got themsleves a year of kotick.
That's a good point!
Bruh can we just eat him and the CDPR people?
"and what proof do we have the Bobby kotick is more valuable than the most profitable piece of entertainment in human history?" It's the question shareholders should be asking
@@Crusader1089 They'll never ask that question as long as they get their kickback too.
@@beylethdirons2160 I mean Rockstar was one asked what added value GTA5 would provide compared to GTA4. Money men are very focused people.
Ah yes, there are 300 cookies and 20 people.
Bobby Kotick takes 290 of the cookies and lays off 10 people so everyone can get a cookie. The proportions are probably closer then would be comfortable for anyone.
edit:
Adjusted the numbers to closer reflect the reality.
Nah , he'll fire all 20 people and give the 10 to the investors
I'd probably change it around some; There are 500 cookies, and 1000 total workers in the company. Well, Kotick takes 250 cookies for his personal cookie jar, then there are 200 cookies that go to the investors. That leaves 50 cookies, so. Kotick decides it's better to fire 250 people, leaving just 750. That way, each of those 750 will get .06667 of a cookie, then once the fiscal year has ended and the company is woefully understaffed and overworked, they will hire a couple hundred people back, for the lowest possible cookie rate, say .025 cookies per year.
@@jtjones4727 I'm sorry, I don't understand the economics of cookies, but that seems a tad... unfair...
:P
@@jtjones4727 Are you a real economist? Because that was perfect.
Yeah, if he earns the reported 300+ times the average worker they'd get about one cookie each for his 300. So maybe your proportions undersold it even.
Cross out the "video game" bit and replace it with just "corporate" and the video title still works honestly.
Capitalism never innovate
Yes. Was gonna say this.
This is not a game problem, it's a system-wide problem.
The designated winners of the system can never lose or be forced to actually do labor in the interest of the product, because the company is the actual product to them. To make it look juicy to he financial markets.
And the financial markets are a giant money elevator for people who are already rich.
Nobody above project lead gives two shits about what is made just by the way the companies are structured.
All is sacrificed to the dark gods of the investor class.
Wait, the Jimquisition is about capitalism? Always has been.
You’re just mad you don’t have a business degree
That was the underlying joke of the entire video. Didn't you watch it?
The idea that games are expensive and we should be grateful is a insult when you see ceos taking gross bonuses while their employees can barely afford a meal
Agreed, kinda reminds me of the industrial revolution period, ya know andrew carnagie and rockifella making big bucks while working their workers to death for almost no pay. Seems the game industry has taken note of that and ran with it. Another parallel is us waiting for the government to brake up monopolies.
Not to mention Bidin (im not getting political here its something he literally said on tv and was shown) wants to raise the corprate tax and quote "make these companies pay their taxes" something to that effect, while i am of the opinion everyone should pay their taxes, thing is then we the people just end up paying more to compensate for the companies expense.
@@jaywerner8415 I hate to agree but it's true. What they need to do is close the loopholes and the tax havens. Only way to actually make the businesses pay their share. Until then nothing will change.
@@vellathewench I mean we all know everyone tries to not pay their taxes (well not everyone, those that know how. Everyone hates taxes) and yes they really need to get around closing all those tax loopholes, But till then if thats the case then raising/lowering the tax doesn't really help and just makes things worse for everyone.
Meanwhile ya keep hearing all these stories of the EXECS getting all of these MILLIONS on MILLIONS of bonuses (i know its probably not all money its a net worth kind of thing) and people get layed off. Talk about bad business practices, Oh and several companies in game industry defending lootboxes despite anyone with 2 brain cells can tell you its gambling. (True scum they are)
@@jaywerner8415 People probably wouldn't be chuffed about taxes so much if earnings and prices were post-tax instead of pre-tax. But gotta keep the commoners down with an extra bit of inconvenience.
@@CarbonRollerCaco Yeah probably.
When a rich man tells you he got rich because of hard work - ask him, who did the hard work for him.
Don't judge a book by it's cover.
How do you define "rich"?
@@Ashley-lm4nv No super wealthy person has ever worked a hard day in their life. There is no "judge a book by their cover" here. I don't even know how you think this applies here.
@@scoobydoobers23 I would assume they mean incredibly wealthy. The kind where you could lose 99% of what you have and still have more than you could ever spend.
@@vellathewench Every poor person buys crap he didn't need at all or should not buy in the first place, including me. Please tell Bill Gates that he didn't ever work a hard day in his life. But still there should be a limit how much money one single person can aquire.
Someone accidentally called him Bobby Pockets in a video a week ago and now I refuse to call him anything else.
That sounds like a toy from the '80s which would have a tie-in TV show that would be referenced as a visual gag in a Jim Sterling video.
🎯
more like Robbie Pockets
@@cactustactics Rob-thee Pockets:)
@@cactustactics Robin Pockets 😂😂
"This is the stuff that's published"
As we say in the restaurant industry, "if that's the state of the bathrooms, what's the kitchen look like?"
I have never heard that saying, but it is frighteningly accurate.
Yea but the restrooms have the least traffic when it comes to the workers. Kitchens are more than likely much cleaner than the bathrooms. That’s just the saying of a customer that doesn’t know any better from my experience. Then again customers complaining about the bathrooms in restaurants i’ve worked in were all fucking ludicrous but still lol
Interesting phrase.
I think the other reason Iwata's salary cut mattered was because, from everything I've heard, he did come to power from within the industry and actually cared about it. Unlike Kotic he actually had an idea of what it was like to be the one making the games, and thus his pay cut could be from actual empathy instead of calculation.
Iwata once famously said, "On my business card I am a company executive. In my head, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer."
Yes
@@d2factotum he was a good man
Why would empathy prompt a pay cut? Empathy would be giving regular workers a payy rise. Iwata was punishing himself to apppease shareholders
@@legion999 well the problem is that Nintendo needed to save money so they can only cut. So he took a pay cut instead of cutting the pay of workers
Shoutout to the captioner for the detailed description of the burp and fart sounds
God, I've been missing out not having CC on for Jim's videos.
I believe LauraKBuzz does the honours.
@@Rohaq the credits confirm that's the case. Her commitment that nobody misses out on even the weirdest stuff is commendable.
I'm so glad someone else saw and appreciated that.
oh im sure she had grand time with that
The fact that layoffs are valued higher than active employees says VOLUMES about today's society.
make employees work harder for less and layoff the rest, so CEOs can buy their big mansions with sport cars
I mean if by today you mean about the last 140 years then yeah
The fact that people take a pudgy, porcine putz at his word instead of applying proper scrutiny says VOLUMES about today's society.
@@SirBlackReeds, so fat = stupid, got it.
@@SirBlackReeds we get it, you're an industry simp. No need to keep saying the same thing over and over again on this channel
"Don't pirate video games or we'll have to lay off all these hard working employees #cryingEmoji" ... "We had to lay off employees so our CEOs could 'earn' bonuses high enough that they could buy multiple houses every year for the rest of their lives" Yeah that went about as expected
dont forget the super yacht's.
@@cmdraftbrn Don't forget the 5 star meals that look like they couldn't feed a dog properly.
What pisses me off is not that they can buy multiple houses or yachts with that money they siphon off their game companies, but they could literally fund more games that make them more money with that money! The exec pay is preventing the company from producing more products.
Well Well!!!
@@seraphphyx Nope. They have a limited number of teams as having too many produced at once means you'll compete with your own games as you release them. They'd still go at around the same rate entirely to ensure they don't compete with their own self.
If you think an executive cutting his bonus from $200 million to $100 million is a noble gesture, you’re the reason “your games” are getting ruined.
Edit: Also, if you think inclusiveness is ruining “your games”, you’ve been manipulated by big business.
Nah, they're the reason that executives are able to fuck everyone over and craft legislation that protects them in general rather than just with games.
ItS tHe InClUsIvItY
Oh it’s a gesture, alright
Games are like Crack to a child.
The thought of "Whether this game was made through exploitation" doesn't go through their undeveloped Heads.
Every game company that has a history of exploiting their developers should should BY LAW! have a "This Game was developed through exploitation" Warning on the game box or on their Steam and GOG, Epic page.
If they want rid of it? They change their ways.
Sad part is a lot of people will be impressed by that automatically while the employees are still overworked and underpaid. As long as you get your content...
"The Vatican of video games"
This is how I'm referring to Ubisoft from now on. Fucking love you Jim.
Same. I look forward to elaborating on how Ubisoft systematically covered for and promoted abusers when asked about the analogy!
Yves Guillemot is the Pope of video games! lol
@@Aloyhero Must be a Borgia.
With all the years of them protecting rapists and sexual abusers in that company, I'd say Ubisoft is the Roman Polanski of video game developers.
As soon as I heard that line I had to rush to the comments section to see if anyone else took note of it
Absolute gold
Your weekly reminder that Bobby Kotick's name was in Epstein's black book.
Because of course he was
@@samreddig8819 damn I was gonna say that.
I am not surprised.
👁
Wait until Kotick retires in one or two decades with his own island.🤣🤣🤣
I for one am shocked that pictures exist with Kotick's horns edited out
some people can't handle the truth
@@666Tomato666 Namely, Bobby
Why should anyone care? He looks devilish enough without them.
The pHotoshop guy who redited them out should be the one getting bonuses.
wow im not suprised the comment section got really fucking antisemetic
Not just in video games, most execs and CEOs are grossly overpaid.
What if, and hear me out here, what if we didn't have CEOs? Do we really need them? Really?
No no, you see, this video is only about video games. They said so themselves. Surely none of this would apply to the rest of the world? Wouldn't that be making vIdEo gAMeS pOlItICaL?
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat CEOs aren't needed, per se, they just naturally occur as a result of starting a company. The company does not need a CEO to run, but people who start companies become executives.
It's sort of a paradox. The better a CEO is at their job, the less they are needed.
Then again, greedy CEOs and investors can shove it.
@@Ignas_ CEOs don't come from people who start companies, its a choice in how the company is organized that gives people who have only given money towards the product outsized control over the profits that developers produce.
@@azertyQ companies that employ 10 people can have a "CEO" too, and that, more that likely, will be the founder; but yes, for anything above few hundred people it's unlikely it is the founder
Remember, ladies and gentlemen, not paying for their stuff could affect them.
Remember, the seven seas are always waiting for you.
Buy Sea of Thieves at full retail, got it.
@@illitero instructions unclear
Problem: Even the devs, the workers who deserve the money, get none.
@@sluttyMapleSyrup they get none no matter what
@@sluttyMapleSyrup
That's not how salary works, but then again you would know that if you've ever had a job.
What it means is they won't be able to afford bonuses. When the bonuses alone are enough to produce a half dozen games, don't be so dense as to suggest my downloading the game is depriving some worker of their pay.
Half the reason I come here is for the amazing content, and the other half is seeing Sterling turn 80s UK TV adverts into Lovecraftian nightmares
That's real? I thought I was tripping acid
I have fewer than 1 friend in the World. That's right. Everybody disses me for making bad videos. I think they are perfect though. Who is right? My dissers or me? Which side are you on, dear onv
@@MisterWonder They’re actually a collective fever dream we’re all sharing
so only one reason then?
Haha, not much work needed on the 80's advert front. Pretty sure Lovecraft had a time machine which he used to steal all his ideas from 80's adverts 😁
Bobby Kotick cutting his base pay while leaving his bonuses alone is like someone ordering a triple cheeseburger and extra-large fries and then claiming they're on a diet because they get a diet coke.
You mean a half-diet/half-cherry-vanilla coke.
You mean me going to McDonalds and skipping the main menu and ordering 6 McDoubles 6 McChicken Burgers 6 McFlurries off the side.
Remember that scene in Jurassic Park where Dennis Nedry was handed a giant suitcase full of money and then when the check came he looks at the man who just handed him the giant suitcase full of money and said "Don't get cheap on me, Dodgson?"
That's the executive class.
What I'm reading is we should release big predatory birds in some boardrooms and see what happens.
Almost like there's a system that always leads to this point, no matter the industry...🤔
If only there was some kind of uprising of the proletariat that could implement a new system🤔
Gamers: Yes, it's socialism!
@@noid0593 The Gamers™ wouldn't go that far. At most they'd expect a hero to save individuals one instance at a time while continuing to contribute to the oppressive system that plagues them. Why suffer the effort of a collective good when passive, comparative victories are more immediately gratifying?
But remember this video is only about VIDEOGAMES!
@@noid0593 Not like socialism has ever led to a minority holding the majority of power and wealth while also routinely leading to famine and hundreds of millions of deaths.
Honestly, your theory that game executives take so much money to spend on snorting cocaine makes the most sense out of any theory I've seen. It would certainly explain why they continue to make bafflingly stupid decisions over and over, even when everyone tells them that their decisions are bafflingly stupid.
I mean it makes sense, they probably got a few yachts, luxury homes in every state, and yet they still cant spend it all. So of course they spend it on DRUGS.
@@jaywerner8415 And prostitutes
@@dandy6191 AKA our wallets.
So let's ignore that Jim Sterling approves of children taking puberty blockers?
@@SirBlackReeds You are very ignorant.
I'm always impressed by the amount and variety of great stock images / videos that Jim can find for their videos. So many clips of money counting, tossing, dancing, kissing, etc. So many videos of nameless corporate crowds sitting around chummily or clapping at nothing. So many great images to use
Pretty sure Justin is the master of stock images suitable to any situation.
I think I fell in love with the woman at 2:58. Wish she wasn't so sad, tho.
@@Dan_Dan_Ruu There were surprisingly few "stock images of really pretty women" this time. They're about a third of the reason I watch this show.
@@djchristian82 They're probably made by lots of different people all around the world and licenced to the stock image/video company, that's usually how it works
one thing that i want to point out, kotick got his salary cut in a time of success, meanwhile iwata cut his own salary in a time of failure.
We need game *developers* to be empowered more to be able to self-publish. No more greedy publishers.
It's to the point where finding out that Bobby Kotick had an extreme cocaine addiction would actually make him a more likeable guy because then you could at least explaining his greed in human terms as opposed to some alien contest of having the most zeroes in a bank account possible.
The cut song 'Biggering' from the Lorax movie fits this bastard
@@christiandauz3742 I didn't know that song existed... Jeez I could say the same for Illumination's executives.
The fact that this is true is frightening
Gotta love the fact that even now I am paying Kotick to be a billionaire when I haven't bought an activision game in the last 6 years.
Same with taxes, you are helping the evil globalists in their evil causes.
If there's a god, and if there's a judgement day, the fuckers will blame us.
@@abloogywoogywoo Awwwww tell us how daddy never loved you for cutting off the internet.
Except we all do every tax season. Activision gets a tax REFUND dispite sending all it's money an account in Holland and not paying taxes!
@@troyjardine5850 which is why it is objectively fine to pirate their games as by all intents and purposes you are funding them
@@Alice89chan da fuc are you on about? My father never had Soyboy Internet, he was a MAN, he had big burly books. You? You couldn't handle a book without getting a papercut. Go back to your liberal safespace before you get hurt.
I am amazed how effective Doom sound effects are when mixed into random childrens tv commercials.
The kids in those commercials look like dead bodies coated in wax. Only monster sounds will do.
@@JimSterling quick question because my question may be lost in the sea of comments. How the hell have you become so trim so quickly? Was it the wrestling training? A serious question coming from a thiccboi myself.
@@JimSterling No
Those kids ARE THE MONSTERS
@@SilliusSodus It is amazing the effect of embracing oneself and not being constantly being depressed and at internal war with your body can have.
@@SilliusSodus Have you tried methamphetamine? I hear the pounds just fall off with that.
If somebody threw Activision-Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick out a window, life would go on. Well, not for Bobby, but for everyone else.
technically this is true for literally any other person on the planet too.
Those 865 people received an average bonus of $34,450 while the board guys that decided to release the unfinished game received an average bonus of $5.6 million. Jesus Christ....
"there's got to be a point, right?" Aw Sterling, I ask that every day, and not just about the gaming industry.
the existential horror of making so much money that you could never spend it all
You could, if you bought a bunch of property and businesses. But on normal day-to-day stuff and even some luxury creature comforts? Nah...
@@TheUltimateBlooper Exactly. At that point, all you can use that much capital for is to acquire more means of producing even more capital.
Even then, you eventually get Saudi Oil Sheik rich and start pissing your money up a wall on stupid shit like WeWork.
When Jim says they broke the game and won capitalism the metaphor I have in mind is to compare wealth with fighting Earth's gravity. At some point all you need is a precise amount of money to break from it and flow indefinitely into space with all the other billionaires.
I even get as far as to think this might well be an evolutionary step needed by any human being that wish to survive in the long run.
And then I usually start depressing a bit 😅😭
@@RottenMuLoT what if we genetically modified humans to die, if they got too rich?
I remember, once upon a time, that the 'reason' CEOs and board members got paid so much was because said people "Make the tough choices, and if they choose poorly, THEY are the ones who suffer the consequences of that choice." Maybe, once upon a time, that may have even held true. For the very very few willing to hold themselves to it. Or the small companies who really will be buried if their leadership screws up bad enough. But even when I was young and first heard that, it was hard to truly believe. Now? Yeeeeaaah, they don't even PRETEND to be responsible for anything that happens under their watch. And the only people who suffer the consequences is everyone ELSE.
So what's the main issue? are they overpaid or are they not responsible enough???
@@ThanhLe-ti8nx Both. I mean 200 million is bit much don't ya think
Yea even smaller businesses do this. As a small time tradesman working for sketchy people I've had this experience more than one:
-The owner pays themselves a massive salary instead of reinvesting in the business, drives a big new truck while employees all drive rusted out clunkers.
- employees are mostly paid poorly but billed out at extravagant rates so the owner makes bank and the customer pays dearly.
-Then the owner makes "mistakes" that cause the business to fail (usually by cutting corners that lead to a lawsuit). Employees lose job and income, owner losses business but keeps all their gains and register's a new business under another name and is back in business by the end of the week.
Of course not every business person is like this but it seems like our society encourages this kind of business while taking a dump on anyone who isn't an entrepreneur.
Meanwhile actually trying to get into business I'm competing with people who hire an army of underpaid people, so it's very difficult to offer competitive rates if I'm actually paying fair wages for fair work.
Or if you legitimately try to fix a mistake that caused a customer grief you're often out of pocket and possibly taken to court, compared to the dishonest business person who closes the business and declares bankruptcy, only to have their brother or friends register a new business and repeat the cycle.
It's filthy seeing the attitude these guys have behind closed doors too, not a single concern for human lives outside their own accumulation of property and toys.
That's another difference between Iwata and Kotick - Iwata was a ground-floor coder, and played videogames as a hobby, and rose through the ranks, even rolling up his sleeves and helping to fix a broken Smash Bros Melee so it could ship on time.
He knew what it was like to be on the ground floor. If you have CEOs I think there should be some kind of rule that they have to have worked inside the company doing the work that makes the product.
And all people shit on Iwata for was having financially failed products. All while under his leadership he made fantastic games, which is why the Wii U's games are being milked by the current leadership.
I work alone in a hospital lab and guess what just happened to be echoing throughout the lab while a nurse was bringing tubes in to get tested
And don't forget: Bobbert Kotterk hates goodwill so much that he decided to put Toys for Bob, the studio behind Spyro Reignited and Crash 4, working on CoD. Because we can't have an Activision studio not eventually working on CoD.
30 years from now, Blizzard will be making CoD.
Also laying off a portion of the people who worked for ToB. Fucking vile shit.
That's ridiculous!
Blizzard are gonna be in the CoD mines way faster than that!
30 years sure is optimistic, I'd say 3 to 5 at this rate. Blizzard has lost so much sway with the community and I honestly see Activision seeing their IP's as a waste of resources at this point.
Hell, at this point, I don't even refer to them as Activision Blizzard, I've already just given up and began calling them Activision. Especially with the shifty looking future of Overwatch 2, and yes, I full well know that Overwatch popularised loot boxes, but with their leadership more than likely being replaced an Activision puppet, I am terrified of what we're going to see with the sequel.
He is a monster
It feels like just yesterday when CDProjektRed were the heroic pro-gamer company! Now they are basically seen in the same category as Umbrella Corp.
Polish EA or Polish Activision.
Not even close, if you think cdpr is anywhere near ea then you're an absolute mor*n.
@@dandromeda1 lol did I trigger you with my statement? Hahahaha
So he was basically robbing the treasury, but now he’s robbing the treasury less. How magnanimous!
It's always sad to see how the executives tie increases in video game cost to their own compensation, in a similar manner to pharmaceutical companies price gouging individual cancer treatment pills to increase each executive's compensation by $500,000. It seems like every dollar of compensation given to video game executives decreases the budget of a title's potential, so the development team must make up for it by releasing a partial game with loot boxes and micro-transactions. With all the public mass layoffs, it seems unsustainable.
Investment group: Hey, it seems like Activision basically exists to make its executives rich!
Me: oh, sweeties, you're so close to getting it.
they probably get it, they're just mad because they want a bigger cut of the profits going to shareholders
@@cactustactics "You're supposed to exploit your workers and customers; not us!" Ooh sorry mates.
@@wyrmh0le Bobby Kotick bows with an apologetic flourish, and reveals a stack of lootboxes stuffed with rubies and gold coins
Bobby Kotick could give up half his bonuses and raise the pay level of Activision staff by triple what they make. And he would never notice.
He would notice, people that rich hate to lose a dime to poor people, but yes in reality it would not really hurt his bank account allthough Booby Cucktip would kill to not lose that money.
Sounds interesting. Do you have napkin math on that?
How many people work under him?
"Ubisoft is the Vatican of video-games"
I know for a fact that Jim got a massive grin when they thought of that one.
They*
@@vegronica9006 He*
@@vegronica9006 whoops, mb
honestly? _same_
@@pinoarias8601 They. It's grammatically correct as a singular pronoun and it's how they're comfortable. Misgendering intentionally is harassment and just a dick move.
The money is the point. It's a game to see just how rich you can get. No joke. There was an investment book I read a few years back and the authors basically admitted it.
Sometines it just feels like they have reached a degree of power so beyond us regular people, it just becomes a big thought experiment to them.
They can do whatever they want,and pull all sorts of bullcrap on us, while making bank.
which is gonna make it all the funnier when a bunch of retards on Reddit make billions of dollars off of Gamestop.
I've played enough simulation games to know thats the goal ;)
Those fuckers treat money like a high score at an arcade.
[Repeated burp and fart sounds, some of which are oscillated in pitch]
- eyewitness description of Bobby Kotick.
"There's gotta be a point"
The point seems to be for them to keep as much money as possible, so that the people at the bottom can't get it, because when the people have enough to not be in survival mode constantly, they start to demand change.
If people have enough food to have energy to make demands, they will. If too many are given nothing, we get to "Eat the rich" territory.
But if people are given too little, they'll be more focused on making what they have last, and fighting over scraps. They won't have enough energy, focus, or time to demand that things get better.
Funny thing is, the pandemic threw a curveball in the form of people being separated from their work for long enough to know exactly what was wrong with it, and the delay on unemployment benefits and stimulus checks put us closer to the "eat the rich" stage than we've ever been.
One of the bane of our society is that we use the words "natural", "normal", and "acceptable" as if they were synonyms.
@@theliberation9061 true
We’ve also got this nasty habit of conflating morals and ethics.
@@shelbypowell9919 on that one, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy don't make the distinction (plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/), and it is an academic open access documentation base.
@@shelbypowell9919 You mean society thinks that just because everybody does something or because it's legal, we have to accept it.
@@Elyseon sort of? It’s more complicated than that. Morals tend to involve the norms expected by a society, while ethics involve right and wrong in the context of philosophy. The best example I have is the justice system.
It’s immoral to allow criminals to walk free. But the US constitution guarantees (on paper) the right of every accused to a fair trial, as well as a whole bunch of other protections. We acknowledge that some criminals will walk free when that is done correctly, but we do it anyway because it is unethical to wrongfully punish an innocent person. It is considered wrong, but ultimately acceptable to us that the guilty will walk free if that’s the only way to guarantee (supposedly) that the innocent won’t be wrongfully punished.
It was once moral to own slaves, but it has always been unethical. Capitalism is moral, but unethical. Vigilante justice is immoral, but an argument can be made for its ethics. It’s all relative, and difficult, and very frustrating to try and debate the purpose of ethics to someone who believes they are necessarily morally right. Grumble grumble.
Another 20 minutes of "eat the rich" Keep up the good work!
Does Bobby file down his horns Hellboy style or does he just get people to photoshop them out?
He's actually got an intern who denies their existence.
He could easily pay for one.
@@matthewbreen1951 The intern only gets minimum wage though and is not entitled to bonuses.
@@raijin2950 I believe the pay is actually just in "exposure" and battle.net gift cards
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i hope everyone in this comment section knows that no matter how much you dislike someone, accusing someone who is jewish of having horns is really damn antisemetic
Can we all just appreciate the "no f**ks given" face Jim has when that dog was doing it's thing for way too long? You're such a treasure. Thank God for you.
"y'all need to seize the means of development"
I mean, you're not wrong there Jim--
In the US since the 1970's the average pay for management have risen roughly 1000% for workers about 12%
Meanwhile, the US top marginal tax rate for individuals went from 70% in 1964, to just 37% today. And the business for tax havens is booming more than ever.
@@ctographerm3285 70% is a tad high but 37% is WAAAAAAY too low.
57% should be the MINIMUM.
Dear Jim - as you presented your new toy's... Musical prowess, my puppy stopped biting everything in sight, sat its ass down and listened. THANK YOU. I'm gonna need a 10 hour version of that please.
my cat also took note and stopped what she was doing to "enjoy" the toy doing its bit
2020 : Jim Sterling
2021 : Fem Sterling
2022 : Comrade Sterling
2023 : Chairwoman Sterling
I sincerely can't wait.
Liberation army squad leader Sterling
2025, James Stephanie Sterling: "Hello, Commander."
No joke, the curvy horns really go with Bobby's face.
I resent that.
I’m liking this immediately because I 100% agree with the title
After watching the whole video, you were right to like it immediately. Good call
Nothing is more fitting than Bobby Kotick with Devil Horns. Brought to you by everybodies favorite pansexual over weight wrasslin star in a wig. It is Ma'am!
@@jtjones4727 thank you for using the proper term "wrasslin"
Almost made it worth sitting thru the customary tedious preamble.
I wasn't sold until the train commercial
Publishers are the appendix of the the video game industry. Once they did an important role but now it's just there ... till fails and bursts.
The appendix? No. The appendix is useless but doesn't usually ruin everything. They are malignant tumors.
Speaking of parasitic "Executives", are there any updates on GILSON B PONTES yet?
His initials literally mean money. Great Britain Pound, or more commonly known as the British Pound *Sterling*.
@@scott8919 Good Boy Points /s
The game CEOs have a critical role: to order that their games have loot boxes, casinos, grind, and copy Call of Duty, Cash of Clans, or Candy Crush.
It's the end part that got me ...
It's that moment you genuinely think to yourself "there has to be another reason surely, it can't be that they just want to one up eachother?"
No matter how often you're told to stop going on about the same thing. No matter how often you get buzz labels thrown at you.
Never, while you are sill able, never stop fighting this. The richer someone is the less accountability they have & its gross.
We'd strongly disagree on a few things. But this I wholeheartedly stand with you on.
They're not making enough money(to fill the vacant spot that used to be their heart)
looking at it as an employee its interesting. i would never give away my 500 dollar bonus, maybe spend some part of it on good meals with family and stuff. but never say no.
is 1000 enough? is 3000 enough? is 5000 enough? is 10000 enough? is 100 000 enough to say "no i dont need all of this"?
but i believe if i got extra 200 mil i would keep 1 mil (on top of the 30 million salary) and with the 199 i could rebuild some region of Senegal or something.
@@kallemetsahalme5701 Money is a means to get what you want. Just having money is meaningless(if I have 200 mil I would buy a castle or a mecha). I don't know what Bobby is buying though
@@aokhoinguyenang3992 Continuing to own that much money usually is to buy power in order to keep getting obscene amounts of money. It's a circle that's kept rolling by underpaid overworked employees and too many politically inept apathetic "gamers".
28M$ for 5 persons. That's insane and unreasonable.
Its completely legal
@@spritemon98 Worst of all we cant do nothing about it
Me listening to the dog toy further for a full minute: "Ugh. Why do I bother with this channel?"
Me listening to Stephanie dropping blistering hot facts about the game industry: "Fuck me, I love this shit."
Yeah that joke was a bit overplayed.
This guy's sense of humour Is simply they worst. They them needs to stop
It was a mild irritant to warm you up for what was to follow so it wasn’t too much of a shock to the system.
Suddenly, Crash and Spyro effectively being taken out back Old Yeller-style makes sense
"There has to be a reason." I swear. SWEAR. its a form of hoarding we haven't (dared) categorised. Dragons syndrome. They just want to see the number get bigger.
I just started watching, but by the title alone this is gonna be a banger.
Edit: I love how hard you went on Kotick. I've seen a lot of people praising him halving his pay, but like you said, he still brings home entirely too much. 200% bonuses for games that aren't finished/unpolished at launch.
I felt poor before watching this but now... man. You know what? I feel richer because of Jim's knowledge.
Gotta be honest, that dog farting and burping has done more for the games industry than any CEO.
That's an awfully generous way of describing Jim Sterling.
I know it's a joke, but it's actually true. The dog farting and burping didn't do anything for the games industry, but it didn't hurt it either. Meanwhile CEOs actually hurt the games industry. Thus, the dog has done more for the industry!
As a wise biped once said 'why does the working class - the larger of the two classes - simply not eat the rich'
Inspirational indeed.
2:18
that looks so perfect it's hard to believe that the photo was edited
What was edited?
That's just Bobby in his natural relaxed state.
When I first saw this news over the weekend, I IMMEDIATELY thought of what Jim was gonna say about it... which is weird, because I pretty much already knew what he'd say, because of how nakedly cynical all this is.
Jim uses they/them :)
@@malloryworlton6359
#NonBinaryFinery
You know Jim Fucking Sterling & Son is serious when Born Depressed is used as the intro.
Depressed people should be like, me when I think bad thoughts I literary deletes them from my mind. I am also not fatter than Peter Griffin, with an "addictive" personality.
@@hawkevick9184 Your attempt at being misinformed about how depression works is noted. As are your attempts at insults towards the channel runner. ...and your spelling. Have a wonderful day!
@@hawkevick9184 you telling depressed people "just don't be depressed, it's that easy!" is like me telling you "just don't be stupid, it's that easy!"
@@gramursowanfaborden5820 I was not telling them to don't be depressed. I was telling them to think themselves healthy, using the power of will power. There is nothing stupid about that. I know that out of personal experience when my father died to Cancer at the age of 43.
@@hawkevick9184 bereavement is not the same as depression, and yes, telling someone to just think away their mental illness actually is telling someone to just think away their mental illness, stop being stupid, please.
Still waiting on that superhero that just throws CEO's of companies out the window until they get the hint and stop being the worst parasites the world can describe.
keep em rolling. Jim Sterling will always be a blessing in the gaming side of TH-cam.
"Ubisoft is the Vatican of videogames"
Pure poetry
You know, having taken a couple of management courses as part of my degrees, I'm always struck by how the way chief executives are compensated flies in the face of what people are taught about structuring companies to encourage good decision making.
It's not really about that though - the lie that they're paid so much for their "valuable expertise" is just how they justify it, but even the most spectacular failures will see those CEOs rehired in a similar position with a similar amount of $$$. The executive class looks after their own and looks after their class interests, the hierarchy is about keeping them on top and everyone else justifying it
18:24 - 18:37
“They can’t just be having money just for the sake of it. There’s gotta be a point? There’s gotta be. Hasn’t there?”
Jim, I think you have just answered your own question.
"What I'm saying, folks, is that ya'll need to seize the means of development."
Thank god for Jim. They truly understand the struggle that has been going on for centuries.
Could drop video games from the title and it still holds true
Calling them parasites is a insult to every parasite living on our big blue world
Agree!
Parasites have the potential to be useful unlike CEOs! There is medical research going into using parasites to help with preventing allergies and autoimmune disorder.
Love that you're talking about how bonuses are a racket. Employee bonuses are a tactic to justify a shittier salary, executive bonuses are just tax evasion.
Yep. Got a job at Ubisoft Toronto for a decent annual bonus for a lesser salary. A year later and they never paid me, or even brought it up. Thinking about lawyering up, but it's so hard to go after the big guys.
I always love when I can feel the sharp teeth in the script of a Jimquisition episode.
Thank you so much for the detailed captions. It's so refreshing whenever there are captions that make it easier for me to understand what's being said. Or know what a fart dog is doing.
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Is there any way to eliminate the executive class in any industry? It always feels like because they have all the money, nothing normal people can do could ever make them change. Am I being pessimistic?
Many saw CD Project Red as some sort of saviour, a Robin Hood, a company by and for the players, the Industrys good guys. But now we see they are not much better than any of the others.
@Liberation. I'm not sure that's true because most of the high level leadership seems to have been with CDPR for a while. I really think they just got glossy eyed and overly confident like everyone exposed to great success and wealth. Their belief that they could do no wrong after Witcher 3 lead them to hype up and develop a type of game they've never done before at a scale the studio had never attempted.
Things went terribly but they're all so rich now they probably don't care, not because they're new greedy people, just because immense wealth changes people and their priorities.
My faith in Actiblizz will be restored when the employees not named Bobby Kottywix get paid more.
I wouldnt be surprised if the wow devs lowkey made Gallywix in Kottick's image.
I was kicked from a facebook gaming group because they didn't want to hear about the BS that goes on in the industry.
I was boo'd off the stage on a DOOM discord by brainless children for pointing out the bait-and-switch about the skin sales in DOOM Eternal...
It cost about $330 million to make cyberpunk. His random bonus was more that half of the entire development cost of the most costly game of the past 5 years. He could single handedly fund another Cyberpunk with a personal check from a SINGLE bonus check...
Why the hell do people amass such wealth and then do FUCK ALL with it? Do they just get off on at looking at their bank statements?
Wait wtf, a company cafeteria that still requires you to pay?
That should not surprise, look at Blizz before Activision they made roughly 100mill a month off of just WoW of only needed 30 mill to pay staff and server/game matainence and thats off just 1 game so thats alot of money went to the higher ups. Keep in mind they make more now due to microtransactions.
land of the free-to-pay
I really thought that you were going to do a Darude Sandstorm cover with that dog for second...
give it a couple days and someone, somewhere will have it up for you
Iwata-San was a man who truly loved & respected the business with passion while Kodick & others give f*** all.
Kotick? More like Cod Dick.
Mr. Iwata could also MAKE VIDEO GAMES! Many of Nintendo of Japan's top-brass can/could.
I’m proud to say I haven’t bought an Activision, EA, or Ubisoft game in years.
A TH-camr calling out a CEO for "not having a real job", oh how the turns have tabled xD
Comedy gold
Did you legally change your name to James Stephanie Sterling? My God you are a mystical creature.. Hat's off and applause to you JSS.
Whats to applause though? Did he save someone or feed a starving child?
I forgot, we as a species reserve applause exclusively for heroes and.. school lunch ladies(?).
@@Tempusmon ceos, Presidents not doing shit, companies too big too fail...
I’m glad I’m not the only one feeling that everyone else thinks I’m crazy for questioning why C-deck and the board make the money they do. Regardless of Industry. All workers should own part of the company and have a say. But it would be nice if Cdeck and board members actually did any real work that match their pay.
But then again this rich class that makes up such a small percent of the population don’t realize when the working and poor have nothing left to eat the only thing we can do is eat the rich.
Doom sound effects just make everything so much better.
Indeed
laughed my ass off at the Doom sounds in the intro. Genius! Thanks God For Stephanie/Jim Sterling!
also...burn in hell Bobby Kotick
Gamers gradually becoming anti-capitalist is been one of the greatest joys of my long life.
I would like to take the time to praise the thumbnail art looking as if Bobby is getting impaled in the head and is streaking blood. It's a real mood.
My theory is that each of these incredibly rich CEO's is secretly building their own Mechagodzilla deep underground and when they're finished they shall all fight each other for control of the universe.
Maybe Bobby's Mechagodzilla could have big horns and a creepy toothy smile.