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[StreetsofBeige]

you can't put a blanket over everyone obviously, but from both personal experience and people i've had to hire and interview as well as older voices in certain industries, there is definitely a rather large swath of young educated employees not being functional at their day to day duties.

My company isnt infused with DEI kinds of people trying to lecture everyone about politics. But all I know is whenever any young worker has issues it's usually not work related at all. They can functionally do a decent job given their experience and expectations getting a sales or marketing role. But it's the lousy attitude. Some get hired and all they do is snapchat or joke around like it's a high school hangout or WFH. And the WFH part was before covid when 5 days a week at the office was the norm for workers within driving distance of the office. And they also have the nerve to try bossing around the vets as if they are their boss.

Good thing is our company doesnt take that shit. So we'd gas them if they act like assholes.

 

[semiconscious]

Grift for 4 years worth of salary with zero output. Add in some severance pay to get rid of them and it's like hitting the lottery. Just imagine working at a company and getting paid for 4 years + sev pay off and had nothing to show.

Situations like this the employees should pay back the company. It's basically stealing if they produced nada. Funny thing is if it's been 4 years of zilch, a final game would probably take 7+ years. For a superhero game. lol

situations like this the company should examine its system of management. who in the hell lets this kind of daylight robbery go on for this long? I'm thinking ea only got what they deserved...

 

[Trilobit]

Since the Civil War movie Black Panther has been one of the most popular Marvel characters. The market test is the first solo movie making over $1b, and the second over $850m.

This is the first time I've heard about the game, but I think BP could've worked excellently in a game. He has the right athleticism and power-level to be interesting. There could have been some pretty cool stealth sections too considering how stealthy the suit is. As a character I don't find him very thrilling, but as a playable character he fits like a glove into most forms of gameplay.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

There's no such thing as a Black Panther "solo movie", please stop this fake narrative.

BP benefits from belonging to the MCU. In videogames that doesnt happen so the audience is unproven.

The only safe bets are Batman and Spiderman. You can't expect any other superhero to perform regardless of the game quality.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

Is there actually demand for a Black Panther game?....

I mean I personally would like to see a Black Panther game, but not by this team.

 

[calico]

Black Panther 2018 was a perfect storm of (almost) peak Woke and peak MCU fever. Essentially a freak event which could not have happened a few years before or after. This was an era when most reviewers were genuinely terrified of pretending this mid movie was anything other than one of the greatest achievements in cinematic history, and MCU could put out any old shit and it would be a huge success.

I don't think there is much/any benefit from either association these days. Of course, when all these projects were greenlit (games, movies and tv shows) they didn't anticipate both Woke and MCU being on life support by the time they were ready to release.

 

[Astray]

I mean .. you could ask if there was a demand for Batman games before Arkham Asylum.

It all would have depended on how the final product would have shaped out.

Which we'll never know, in this case.

I still remember the initial skepticism of Arkham Asylum due to the terrible record of the majority of prior Batman games.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Black Panther 2018 was a perfect storm of (almost) peak Woke and peak MCU fever. Essentially a freak event which could not have happened a few years before or after. This was an era when most reviewers were genuinely terrified of pretending this mid movie was anything other than one of the greatest achievements in cinematic history, and MCU could put out any old shit and it would be a huge success.

I don't think there is much/any benefit from either association these days. Of course, when all these projects were greenlit (games, movies and tv shows) they didn't anticipate both Woke and MCU being on life support by the time they were ready to release.

Even dumber. After 4 years, this new studio still had nothing concrete to even show. Big waste of time and money. But not surprising when it comes to media.

As a comparison for laughs, in 5 years Sandfall released Clair 33. Also a new studio formed during covid. And both companies had comparable people count. In fact Cliffhanger probably had more. Sandfall has about 30-40 core people + around 40 outsourced I think making the total lets say about 80 people.

Cliffhanger on Linkedin said it had 74 direct employees. And that excludes any outsourced people. Give Cliffhanger credit for knowing how to grift years of salary and severance pay out doing basically nothing. If you think of it, it kind of takes talent to do that. How many jobs can anyone think of where you can fly under the radar for 4 years with nothing to show?

The employees probably would keep telling the execs.... "Ya, ya, were still working on it. Come back in 6 months." And that somehow grew to 4 years.