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Inside Team17, following the Worms NFT firestorm

Last week, Worms developer and indie game publisher Team17 brought the ire of the internet upon itself as bosses attemp…

www.eurogamer.net

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Inside Team17, following the Worms NFT firestorm​

Staff speak out on pay, working conditions and management failures.

 

[sn0man]

Yikes. What a sad state of affairs. I feel for the developers caught in this crap.

 

[Soodanim]

Same old story. Public company needs to satisfy shareholders, wages stay the same or get worse while workload increases to try and force that into being by squeezing blood from a stone, it becomes a shit place to work, board wonders why that doesn't translate to 100% success.

In companies like that nothing changes until they're forced into it by falling profit, so when Team17 is making record profit you know they won't give a shit about whether the people at the bottom are paid enough to live on or not.

Staff are clinging to a dream, but they need to wake up and realise they're better off elsewhere if it's that bad.

 

[Tangerine]

Saw this the other day. Fuck that 400million to her name bitch CEO.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Was better when it was just the 4 of them doing Amiga games.

That worms bloke has a lot to answer for.

 

[TVexperto]

doesnt surprise me now that the ready or not devs cancelled (?) or abandoned their team17 agreement and are now sole publishers

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Saw this the other day. Fuck that 400million to her name bitch CEO.

Imagine the humiliation of ‘can you wrap my Christmas presents for me’

Then it would be you haven’t finished your project you are on a warning!

Fucking hate her but she’s a ‘woman in power’ so everyone (media) sucks up to her for fear of getting cancelled etc.

 

[Fare thee well]

I think I've seen some of the worst management and marketing decisions of my entire gaming life in the last decade. I don't know how it is that so many games get a management team that hasn't even spent a year of their life coding or playing a video game themselves.

 

[Trimesh]

It's the UK - one of the major reasons I got out of that place was that at pretty much every level UK managers are utter assholes. Observing the typical UK PLC from the inside is like watching a fractal of retardation.

The senior management suck balls
The middle management suck balls
The supervisors suck balls <--- I was here

And if you're a supervisor that isn't a complete cuntish asshole then you get hassled by the middle managers about why you are being so unreasonably reasonable.

 

[ToTTenTranz]

Imagine the humiliation of ‘can you wrap my Christmas presents for me’

And imagine the request coming from this person:

 

[Tangerine]

And imagine the request coming from this person:

She looks like a right barrel of laughs.

 

[WitchHunter]

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Inside Team17, following the Worms NFT firestorm

Last week, Worms developer and indie game publisher Team17 brought the ire of the internet upon itself as bosses attemp…

www.eurogamer.net

'

Inside Team17, following the Worms NFT firestorm​

Staff speak out on pay, working conditions and management failures.

Worms nfts, good! No one is forcing you to buy it, what's the problem?