Like the title says. Fatshark needs to move their studio out of soft, pampered Sweden, and into a more competitive area like America. Get your arses in gear and start pumping out content like other studios, most of whom are smaller than yours. No more afternoon naptimes and apple juice with your little snacks. No more 2 month vacations. The world doesn’t wait on your leisure, especially not in this day and age. GET IT TOGETHER!
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Counterpoint: Paradox is in Sweden. Paradox manages to work a lot faster than Fatshark.
It’s not a matter of having good worker benefits. It’s that Fatshark is a dysfunctional company.
Also, L take.
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2 Month vacations. Enough said.
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Fun fact! Those aren’t part of Sweden. Sweden requires a minimum of 25 days of vacation time, a bit less than a month. Fatshark apparently f*cking off for two months every year is their own decisions and company policy, nothing more.
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b…but they told us they were FORCED to take those vacations
LMAO ok, there ain’t no way they’d downgrade and move to ol’ rotten corpse America where the cost of living has gone up exponentially while the quality of life has dumped harder than my grades in college advanced calculus. Not to mention the politics make people cry and go insane over there. If it were me and I lived in somewhere like Finland, I would NOT move to America in this day & age and I’m sure the devs think the same.
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If Fatshark ever actually said they were forced to take 2 months vacation - which I doubt - they were employing a very advanced technique known as ‘lying’. They’ve done it a LOT about this game.
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Helldivers 2 is made in Sweden
Complete L take, workers unite
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Nah this ain’t it.
Good working conditions is good and make a lot of skill and talant stay in the company and not just mass-fire every developer to make the stocknumbers good for investors.
Probably need a better plan to comunicate with the players (maybe some dev-streams, devblogs and so on)
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Fatshark doesn’t even have particularly great working conditions apparently - pay isn’t very competitive and it’s silo’d and dysfunctional in terms of programming output.
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Coffee stain satisfactory does too. Not to say they’re fast, but they’re pretty thorough and communicative.
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I don’t think the studio location or local culture/laws/traditions/vacations are direct a hindrance to the product.
What Fatshark does well, it does really well. The core combat loop of Darktide is great. The immersive feel in the 40k universe is fantastic. I think the issue is that Fatshark has some incredible talent in a very narrow range of things coupled with some inept/out-to-lunch management and leadership on top of some abysmal internal organization where nobody talks to anybody. These can and do happen anywhere and everywhere.
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Arrowhead is Swedish too, just sayin
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ITT:
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Sweden’s not the problem, it’s Fatshark’s bad scheduling that neglects to work around Swedish holidays.
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On the other hand, we also have new daily Helldiver 2 threads. If replying to the same copypasta thread with the same post is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
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Good lord I’d never seen the first half of that clip, blind sided me worse than a silent poxburster