Barktide: The Pets of Fatshark

Can’t make this up lmao. Good luck with school tho!

Also cute pets

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Scooby is the clear winner but Dachshunds mini Jack Russell mixes are also cheating.

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Uh cool blog I guess. Remember when Hedge had(/still has? Who knows) chickens. I also shared a picture of my cat Nugget back then. Here he is again looking for Veteran weapons.

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I know a person who worked for a literal sociopath at a farmaceutical company. This person accumulated years of employee complaints, about a decades worth. They went through employees fast, who succumbed to stress, depression, anxiety etc. etc. What happened? The person was promoted. Department output was up. That’s what matters most to the people on top. This only ever becomes a problem if there are not enough new people to hire to replace the ones you lose, or if word spreads and bad PR starts affecting profits.

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Sad anecdote. My first significant professional experience was being on the sidelines while the veterans on my team took a C-suite executive out for lunch to complain and the next week my manager was relegated to a solo team and worked out of the company.

Individual complaints don’t do much but collective action forms unions occasionally. Getting a genuinely bad leader moved or worked out is trivial by comparison.

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Strawhat started off rough but eventually got to actually bridging things. She carried a LOT of comms.

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I am baffled.

I thought FS had already hit their all time low in terms of com quality and lack of com.

This is truly impressive.

Kudos to the newly hired marketing exec who refined their com strategy, and the marketing manager who approved this post.

I used to work in a PR agency for video games in the past, representing AAA games like the old Batman games and I mean it:

Fartshark truly ticks all the boxes of the compass indicating south in terms of customer service, PR and project management.

I hope a marketing teacher catches these examples to integrate them into a class of 101 PR “not to do”.

I’m not even mad.

This is amazing.

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Emperor damnit…

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This is pathetic. We’re starving for content news, balancing patches and fixes and after almost nothing but silence, we get this?

You can’t make it up.

A whimsical post trying to create a fun community post from the staff is fun. I don’t care for it, but I can see how it can be good community building.

But that only works if you actually do literally anything the players care about before and after it.

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Thanks i guess.. but really… share something about the upcoming content with us! ANYTHING!

This is not the time to post cute pet images when the community has about 4 posts a week about feeling like they’re speaking to a wall!

This is not proper communication! Its a cool extra post when things are going well. Right now, we are not; We’re in a black void of content! This will only enrage people more!

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You know what it truly shows?

The fact that FS lives in a silo, in a safe space echo chamber bubble where “everything is awesome”, where KPI and deliverables don’t knock at your door, challenging talents to reinvent and stay at their top level.

I doubt they have a meritocratic path to promote valuable employees. I would bet an arm they are extremely political and cult like in their approach to hire, promote and retain talents.

Has anyone explored their Glassdoor page lately?

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Didn’t we only just get Kitefin as CM earlier this year to replace StrawHat, now they’re leaving already?

It’s like a revolving door of CM’s in recent times, what’s going on at FatShark. :confused:

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The opinions of the leadership continue to be ‘any negative feedback is nothing in comparison to the Silent Majority That Is Totally There’ and this only changes with hard metrics like Steam reviews dropping to Mixed, at which point they panic to try and allay concerns.

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I’m not on the discord, so maybe it’s there, but…

We didn’t even get the chance to be the baddies during this tenure. At least, not with anything I saw here or on Reddit.

I think uni is just the left side of this picture for kitefin, like a better job was for strawhat; she deserved better anyway.

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Nice topic, horrible timing.

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Tai looks like a dog in disguise.

Reymond, Duo duo and bobby are adorbale. Great photos!

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Around these parts we say…

Next Week ™

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Winter ™

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