[…] because of immigration and gender identity policies
That headline kind of undersells it a little. From an outside perspective (inside too I’m sure), the USA looks really fucked up and a dangerous place to travel to. I’m not a game dev but still, you couldn’t pay me to travel there
I’ll admit you probably could pay me, but it would have to be enough money that I or my family would not have to worry about money for the next couple of centuries.
Who wants to get rapped, left to die in a pig pen while being tortured, and/or executed on the streets because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the ICE agent felt like murdering someone.
Of the four people I know in Australia who travel to the US semi regularly, not one is concerned at all, 3 of the 4 support Trump and the other one thinks it’s overblown media hyperbole. All white folks. These aren’t friends per se but acquaintances.
Regularly as.on at.least.omce every year and occasioanly twice.
Yet. Give it some time, they are already murdering model white citizens.
Well, it would if you get all your news from this place.
quite frankly I’d rather visit the RDC countryside than the US
Do you mean DRC (for Democratic Republic of Congo) or is there some psycho farmer community that gets off on torture or something that i never heard about?
hah, yes, I suppose that’s what I mean.
I’m not sure I see what you’re referring to wrt to this :
is there some psycho farmer community that gets off on torture or something that i never heard about?
No reference, just b/c maybe you didn’t make a mistake and it actually meant something scary and that is what my brain seems a scary countryside
hah, yes. Xfiles vibes
No shit. I live 1 hour from the US and won’t ever travel there again, pedonald or not.
I also was in charge of buying for around 300k of AV equipment for the project I was working on last year and, with the team, we agreed to cancel almost all our orders to US based businesses and replace it with other manufacturers. Zero regret.
I want you to know, for almost no reason, that I thought you said “zero yoghurt” at the end there and I wondered for five whole glorious seconds what AV task is usually done with yoghurt.
Breakfast. Sometimes lunch.
I appreciate you letting me know haha.
Perhaps the other two-thirds should have thought twice about going to the US as well, on account of “One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off in 2025”. Since the global number is only 28%, it seems job prospects are better outside of the US, without even factoring the whole fascism thing into it.
another third are reconsidering going to the USA
This was for business, not work.
Worth noting that this is from a GDC survey.
Only 1/3 (well less than acutally)?
The other 2/3 never had plans to go to America.
Source? The Institute of Data Pulled From My Arse?
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/nearly-one-third-of-non-us-game-developers-have-cancelled-plans-to-travel-to-the-country-because-of-immigration-and-gender-identity-policies/ This is the article with the exact headline. Must’ve messed up the link.
mis-linked (now fixed)
