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[–] Carighan 74 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Ah, it's good someone is looking out for the poor poor shareholders. Just earlier I saw a long line of them at the unemployment office, begging for food from passerbyes, destitute in their poverty. /s

[–] partial_accumen 33 points 11 months ago

It really is sad these days. You can see them holding signs written on the back of Form 10-K documents at road intersections say things like:

"Need dividends. Any amount helps. God Bless."

But really, you have to just ignore them. You know anything you give them they're just going to blow on equities in unproven klepto-corporate business models with over aggressive spending attempting to capture market share in industries paying abusively small wages to their destitute workers. You can try to help them like I did one time:

  • Me: "Hey, here's a couple of shares in a company that hires those recently released from prison for light industrial assembly work giving them a good reference for future employment. Its not worth much, but they do some good for the community."
  • Them: "Can I as a shareholder petition the board to fire the ex-cons, ship the assembly work offshore, and perform a stock buyback increasing the value of the shares?"
  • Me: "I don't think the board is interested in that as it violates the company mission"
  • Them: "Then I don't want those shares"
[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 11 points 11 months ago

The shareholders at the local yacht club were really bummed out because many of them were saving really hard to add another ship to their collection, and some might even have to cancel a 2 week international vacation. Ive started a GoFundMe because no shareholder should feel so deprived of those basic needs.

[–] Aremel 37 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's refreshing to see evil motherfuckers being evil openly instead of trying to hide it with doublespeak or outright denying it. I love Coffee Stain Studio's games and how they handle monetization, and this announcement makes me worried for both the studio and their projects.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Damn I didn't know that Coffee Stain was owned by Embracer.

If Embracer forces them to stop working on Valheim or Satisfactory imma shit some bricks.

[–] SkyezOpen 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If they somehow shove mtx into valheim I'm gonna riot.

[–] dumpsterlid 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don’t worry, the business model of companies like Embracer is literally to strip mine “inefficient” businesses run by artists through short circuiting the positive feedback loop between game developers passionate about what they do and loyal fans, trashing the work environment for the employees by cutting everything, and ripping off fans until they realize the place that made the art they love is alive only in name.

Valheim will be fine!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Then let's hope this doesn't happen

-Your Intestines

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Ah damn, really? CS publishes/develops some great games.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Abolish shareholder primacy

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Abolish shareholders.

[–] dumpsterlid 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

CALLING ALL THE CONDESCENDING PEOPLE WHO KEPT SAYING "LETS JUST WAIT AND SEE" WHEN PEOPLE LIKE ME POINTED OUT THIS WOULD HAPPEN WHEN THEIR BELOVED GAME DEVELOPMENT STUDIO SOLD ITSELF TO EMBRACER

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

At least they're being honest about it!

As an Embracer shareholder, I think i'm ready to sell at a loss and move on with my life. This company is doomed. I've lost more than value watching them go to shit, they've actively killed projects I cared about. They are going to fall apart and nobody will touch the IP.

[–] Phegan 5 points 11 months ago

Embracer can suck my dick.