lmao
legal fiduciary obligation to their shareholders to act in the best interest of raising stock value
This is actually a myth and a shitty trader interpretation of the law, there's an illustrative journal article online somewhere
Regardless these failed execs will just go fail upwards somewhere else
This is an accessible overview https://theconversation.com/its-a-myth-that-companies-must-put-shareholders-first-coronavirus-is-a-chance-to-make-it-stop-129104 and links the journal article - https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2311&context=facpub
The notion that a corporation’s primary purpose is to look after its shareholders is widely believed and taught, but is in fact a myth with no basis in corporate law. The corporation is a separate legal entity. Because ownership of assets and liabilities are attributed to this entity, corporations are not “owned” by shareholders.
Instead, shareholders have limited legal rights, which do not include the right to directly control directors’ or managers’ behaviour. Indeed, shareholders have no special claim on a corporation’s economic returns. Their right to dividends is the same as a waiter’s right to tips: an expectation that is unlikely to be enforceable in court.
When you realise these things, it gives you a different view of company ownership and control. The idea that the authority structure does not originate with the shareholders delivers a picture in which boards balance interests between many stakeholders – with different agendas, time horizons, powers and responsibilities – all connected to the distinct legal entity that is the corporation. Importantly, this allows us to reimagine the corporation, its supporting institutions, and the processes by which stakeholders can meaningfully be represented.
Sadly the takeaway is going to be that they should've crunched right away rather than try not to
Sad thing is they technically have a good case in the eyes of the law and will probably win this or settle
They should, I'm curious to see if they will. Between this and many devs leaving over this project they are posed to essentially have a whole new company under the hood and I'm interested to see how it plays out
“HOW DARE YOU RELEASE THE GAME IN THAT STATE WHEN WE TOLD YOU TO RELEASE IT AT THAT DATE?”
If it was the workers rising up against the bosses, I'd be like this: :sicko-yes:
But since it's this, which is less cool: "Let them fight."
tfw when you force a game to be released early and it isnt complete
Well to be fair, it is a fantastic game, and people ARE being dramatic.
I've only experienced a couple bugs, nothing major. The game definitely needs a lot of work still (improved AI, etc etc) but it's good.
That said, releasing the game on old consoles when they downright knew it wouldn't run properly was criminal. People have legit grievances with it but the g*mer outrage machine is just trying to find things to hate about it out of spite.
The game is rather is easy to hate. Given its endemic transphobia. Fucko.
so glad i wrote this game off years ago. I'm not honestly a big fan of cyperpunk in a lot of ways. like it theoretically has a lot of stuff I would find interesting, but I don't. i also can't stand how g*mers almost romanized cyperpunk aesthetics and all that shit, that is also super fucked up to me. but i genuinely couldn't get into the witcher 3, tried maybe four times and i just couldn't care about the story at all. it's was a pretty game, and i like high fantasy shit, but idk i didn't like gerald and i didn't get hooked. i also get overwhelmed when a game drops you in a open world and there is like a billion secrets and collectibles (those herbs growing especially.) i first try to play naturally and discover everything myself but then after awhile i feel like im missing out on good upgrades and browse a gamefaqs and then i get annoyed cause now i know i missed a bunch of shit and then i just stop playing. i, for whatever reason, never had this issue in fallout and elder scrolls games though so i truly don't know what is wrong with me. im just glad i wasn't excited for this shit.
While the genre existed before William Gibson, and a lot of its authors are leftists, it's always disappointed me that Gibson himself, the most well-known cyberpunk author, ended up just being an unremarkable shitlib. How can you write books that are basically critiques of capitalist alienation and commodification and then not be anti-capitalist?
spoilers below
spoiler i think the game does a good job at showing how fucked up everything is.
theres a key side quest that you have to save a sex worker who had a chip that gives the customer whatever their subconscious is wanting... when her chip got fried they dumped her off to a perverted sex doctor who tossed her off to “scavengers” who steal organs/cyber parts to sell on market. its bleak af even for an edgy gamer. oh also they have snuff films that you experience in first person as if you were the person doing whatever heinous thing. they sell these to sickos of course but its still horrifically repulsive.__:::
you got the
:: spoiler spoiler line bit ::
thing when you click the triangle with the exclamation mark in it right?
i appreciate it. i think i left the spoiler spoiler part out like a dingus
i think i used the wrong command when i was doing it and im just an idiot lmao. ima figure it out eventually
Again, watch my theory of this becoming another Vampire the Masquerade where the community has to patch the game become true
Wait, does Masquerade have a dopeass fanmod out there? I loved that game and have always wanted to go back to it.
Yes! Basically fixes many of the bugs. From what I know there are several, but I'm using this https://www.nexusmods.com/vampirebloodlines/mods/80
enjoy, it's so much better with the patch. they also added a shortcut through the goddamn sewer level.
lol maybe from now on companies will finally let someone familiar with how the development is going decide when to start doing pre-release publicity
