Your first mistake was assuming that industry executives would stop and ask, โIs this what our players actually want?โ The Silicon Valley mentality that โconsumers donโt know what they want until you show it to themโ has infected leadership across the entertainment industry, often with disastrous results
Hermen Hulst is the guy who thought Concord would be โthe future of PlayStation,โ pushed for the panic acquisition of Bungie, and greenlit the development of Horizon: Hunters Gathering instead of a Killzone reboot. Under his leadership, Sony Interactive Entertainment have seen over $1B in value destruction, including ~$765M in impairment losses and ~$400M from the Concord / Firewalk failure. He is a walking, talking financial hazard to the entertainment industry
So my dad has been ending every phone call with "stay dangerous" instead of "goodbye" for like six months now. We all thought he was just being a weird dad. Turns out he's been mishearing the ending of a podcast he listens to. The host says "stay curious" but my dad is slightly deaf in one ear. He's been going around telling his coworkers, my grandmother, and apparently his DOCTOR to "stay dangerous" this entire time. My mom only found out because his doctor called to check if everything was okay at home. My dad has now decided he likes his version better and refuses to stop. Yesterday he told a nun to stay dangerous.
At what point does Hermen step down?
- Buys bungie for 3.6 billion only to layoff more than half of the studio, launch an underperforming game and kill Destiny
- Invests heavily into Concord (buys the studio & IP) only to shut it down less than 2 weeks after launch
- Buys Haven Studios, but founder & the game director leave because fairgames fails testing & has to be completely reworked
- Buys remake studio Bluepoint to have them work on a GoW live service, shuts them down
- Lets Guerrilla Games work for countless years on a fortnite Horizon game that is only appealing to a very small audience, but likely costs 300 million dollars + to make
- Partners with a studio who reveal 4loop a new live service to lukewarm reception
- Let Days Gone team Sony bend work on a live service game, cancels the game so many years & money is lost
- Lets London Studios known for VR games & other titles work on a live service, shuts them down
- Opens Dark Outlaw games by former Call of Duty Zombies people, shuts the studio down
I might be forgetting things... what a generation.
They are so afraid of you realizing there are politicians who can and actually want to make your life better and not just collect checks from lobbyists and corporations.
Most of the Destiny team gone, just like that.
Unbelievable to let go some of the most talented people on the planet that made Destiny feel special, literally.
Anger is an understatement.
Launch the suits into a black hole.
They've decreased the ISA allowance from 20k to 12k
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, we non pensioners are fucking SCUM to those that run this country. Aren't we!
won't be taking any prime minister seriously until they lay out a plan to make england better for people born post-1990. it's tiresome being expected to foot the bill for literally everyone else and getting increasingly little back for it