Il Regno Unito annuncia un pacchetto di finanziamento da £ 30 milioni e le interruzioni fiscali in quanto mira a essere il “posto migliore al mondo per realizzare giochi”
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Il Regno Unito annuncia un pacchetto di finanziamento da £ 30 milioni e le interruzioni fiscali in quanto mira a essere il “posto migliore al mondo per realizzare giochi”
di zrkillerbush
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Their claiming they want to be the best place in the world for Gaming and AI but all they’re doing is speedrunning human rights violations… As a trans woman, I wanna leave this shit hole asap.
They should have blocked CMA from allowing EA to take over code master as that was one of the most beloved uk devs at least we still have rebellion studios.
Good news. Kind of frustrating all the attention in this country seems to go to supporting 70 year old blast furnaces, or fishermen who consciously chose to sell off their own fishing rights.
There are a range of very high value, very profitable sectors across the arts and sciences that the UK absolutely excels at, video games being one of them. It would be real nice for once if we had a bit more recognition of that on the national level and were in a place where people were equally invested and demanding equal support for these areas as they do for these other ancient low-value sectors that hold so much political sway.
That’s good news! Tbh too late and too little, but still better than nothing.
I’ve been in the game industry for 15 years and right now it’s a bit grim in the UK: a lot of big companies have stopped hiring or are closing down offices, there aren’t many job openings, the salary and cost of living aren’t attractive to global talent and there are only a few local studios left. 🫠
Brilliant idea, games are literally a bigger industry than movies (hollywood), music and TV, its insane how they’re seemingly overlooked, and there isnt really a ‘hollywood’ of games
Probably should have done this before they let american companies buy and then shut down most of the big studios.
If you want to be the best place to make games, then Stop Killing Games.
An industry that’s famously not exploitative and doesn’t hoard profits from tax cuts. /s
Its good cash is being pumped in:
but the board theyve put together is almost exclusivley AAA in or near london. If you want to make the UK “the best place” you need to
– support mid-size companies. Giving cash to microsoft or other AAA studios doesnt really change much as theyll still flow to whever is most advantageous and have no links to the UK, happily hiring and firing whoever, whenever. AAA generally has access to capital, but a small 15-40 man studio absolutley is what struggles, and has actual roots in the UK, and the potential to grow to be the next lucid, codemasters,playground,ect.
– realize the fact that a lot of the UKGI is now focused on outsourcing. Companies like lucid, keywords and sumo are now more stable tentpoles of the UK games sector than places like CIG or Playground: which are betting absolutley everything on a big hit, and will either fold or have massive job cuts if they dont
– Support the industry outside of london. liverpool, manchester birmingham and edinburgh all are becoming their own hubs. and diversifying the UK economy off london is always good.
Also a contraversial opinion but all this “we’ll train folk up to make great games” is a double edged sword. the UK currently has a lot more games grads than there are games jobs, and a lot of the programs are less than worthless. Saying theyll train up more people simply doesnt work if there isnt jobs or cash avalible. Employment chances with a BSC in games is more akin to a BSC in fine art or latin history than a CS degree.