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Totally worth the crunch (if there is crunch culture at that company).
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Shift Up CEO, Hyung-Tae Kim celebrated the successful showing of Project Eve at the PlayStation showcase by purchasing a PS5 for each of his 260 staff
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Why would you make that assumption for a console that's well known for being hard to acquire? I doubt there's a way for company employees to have good access to getting one unless they actually work at PS Studios.
Project EVE CEO spends $140k buying PS5’s for his workforce after the reveal
Hyung-Tae Kim celebrates the studio's reveal of the game by buying everyone Sony's latest console
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"First reported by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this news is one of the most wholesome CEO stories in quite some time and, shows how much Kim values each of his employees.
To put this generous move into context, a PS5 in South Korea costs 628,000 won (that's approximately $540), so Kim has just spent 162,280,000 won ($140,400) on equipping his workforce with new generation gaming machines."
Btw anyone curious this is what their Studio set up is like:
About – :: S H I F T U P ::
shiftup.co.kr
Second Eve Studio
It's true- they both use the letter "p" in their first word and end in Eve.
My original post was about the discomfort I have with a workplace structure where one person at the top is given so much excess income that they can make an expensive gift to everyone in the company. The circumstances become even more uncomfortable when individual employees can't buy their own console (whether for practical or financial reasons), but again, one person has the connections to buy a large quantity of them.
I said this previously, but this is being postured as an individual gift from the CEO, not from the company. There's a difference between a company having resources and sharing them with informal benefits to employees, vs. a CEO having a disgusting amount of the company income funneled to them, and then making gestures that lionize them for their charity to the workforce. It's a situation where there's a disconnect between workers and their earnings (because a CEO is given their earnings), compounded by a hardware shortage. And exactly as you describe, the result unfortunately resembles the classic issue of workers not being able to buy/use what they produce.
At Lucasfilm we once got ipads and iphones for christmas from George Lucas. Little did we know he'd sell his company to Disney shortly after and they'd shut us (LucasArts Sgpore) down lol.
Damn that's some very nice studios lolProject EVE CEO spends $140k buying PS5’s for his workforce after the reveal
Hyung-Tae Kim celebrates the studio's reveal of the game by buying everyone Sony's latest console
"First reported by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this news is one of the most wholesome CEO stories in quite some time and, shows how much Kim values each of his employees.
To put this generous move into context, a PS5 in South Korea costs 628,000 won (that's approximately $540), so Kim has just spent 162,280,000 won ($140,400) on equipping his workforce with new generation gaming machines."
Btw anyone curious this is what their Studio set up is like:
First Child StudioAbout – :: S H I F T U P ::
Second Eve Studio
Project EVE CEO spends $140k buying PS5’s for his workforce after the reveal
Hyung-Tae Kim celebrates the studio's reveal of the game by buying everyone Sony's latest console
"First reported by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this news is one of the most wholesome CEO stories in quite some time and, shows how much Kim values each of his employees.
To put this generous move into context, a PS5 in South Korea costs 628,000 won (that's approximately $540), so Kim has just spent 162,280,000 won ($140,400) on equipping his workforce with new generation gaming machines."
Btw anyone curious this is what their Studio set up is like:
First Child StudioAbout – :: S H I F T U P ::
Second Eve Studio
Damn those are some fancy offices.
Hey at least you worked for George Lucas and you got a free iPad. 😅
The rtx cards made me laugh. That's definitely showing off a little, lol
They said one of the enemies was being "parasatized" in the trailer.
The connections keep coming.
Damn! That's a quite nice office.Project EVE CEO spends $140k buying PS5’s for his workforce after the reveal
Hyung-Tae Kim celebrates the studio's reveal of the game by buying everyone Sony's latest console
"First reported by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this news is one of the most wholesome CEO stories in quite some time and, shows how much Kim values each of his employees.
To put this generous move into context, a PS5 in South Korea costs 628,000 won (that's approximately $540), so Kim has just spent 162,280,000 won ($140,400) on equipping his workforce with new generation gaming machines."
Btw anyone curious this is what their Studio set up is like:
First Child StudioAbout – :: S H I F T U P ::
Second Eve Studio
Parasite Eve is dead. There's no connection outside of the utilization of EVE name.
It's all pretty speculative. Given that the company is producing a large-budget console game where their previous projects were mobile games, I would be willing to bet that at least 50-75% of the staff there probably wasn't around to work on anything that actually profited the company yet.
Yes, it's jokes. I already said there was no connection, lol.
Feels like a pretty huge difference to me whether those reasons are practical or financial. One suggests they get paid so little they can't buy the product they're making, the other one is simply that a CEO will have connections to the people he's been negotiating a platform deal with.
I'm sure the employees have the income to purchase one. Acting like the CEO getting access to the consoles because he works with Sony being a problem is weird. Also yes there's a giant income disparity between an employee and the CEO. Welcome to the corporate world. That's a completely separate problem.
When we were making Cosmic Star Heroine (a Sony Indie Pub fund game), they sent me a PS4 that arrived the day before the system's official launch day. Was very nice, especially since I didn't really have the disposable income to justify buying the system myself at the time.
Yeah those were nice haha. Although I've only met George once in my 4-5 years in Lucas Singapore lol. Worked more with Dave Filoni when we were doing Clone Wars the tv series lol.
Employee who's spent 3-4 years working on the game looking up to see the reward is a way to play the game:
Joking aside it is a nice gesture.
Ironically, you're diving pretty deep into speculation there, yourself :P (but also, good point re: this potentially being about new hires)
My complaint is more structural (hence why I'd argue "practical or financial" doesn't matter when the result is the same when it comes to workforce access to goods). Just for context, I'm someone who thinks "professional philanthropists" are a social ill; I think high-profile philanthropy is used to prop up systems that parasites at the top benefit from, to prevent people from actually addressing the kind of income inequality that makes a more stable society impossible. The fact of the amount of resources spent on PR sharing how "magnanimous" the acts are should be a huge tell, re: intention. So my criticism re: the thread topic is through that lens.
Era is socialist confirmed, lol
I wish they pushed making connections into my brain from a young age
Connections is what gets you through life
Cool gesture though, getting one PS5 without a bot is like winning a marathon now
Connections is what gets you through life
Cool gesture though, getting one PS5 without a bot is like winning a marathon now
Just when Xbox was beginning to taste a slice of the pie! Media Create thread gonna go wild next week
looks like a lounge. something I find at Soho House.Project EVE CEO spends $140k buying PS5’s for his workforce after the reveal
Hyung-Tae Kim celebrates the studio's reveal of the game by buying everyone Sony's latest console
"First reported by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this news is one of the most wholesome CEO stories in quite some time and, shows how much Kim values each of his employees.
To put this generous move into context, a PS5 in South Korea costs 628,000 won (that's approximately $540), so Kim has just spent 162,280,000 won ($140,400) on equipping his workforce with new generation gaming machines."
Btw anyone curious this is what their Studio set up is like:
First Child StudioAbout – :: S H I F T U P ::
Second Eve Studio
Wonder if the lighting is any good, like if more companies should use something like this which is a lot less bright.
I wish lol. And I totally get what your saying and agree with the basis of your complaint about CEO pay but sometimes a simple story should just be that. It's like are we really complaining about a CEO giving his employees free PS5s? Just seems like this forum is all about finding the negative angle to everything.
I genuinely don't have a clue how you can arrive at this conclusion. I get the argument when it's tax-funded wage distributions, which is why you don't see the director of the FBI earning millions a year for example (despite having responsibilities similar to those of a Fortune 500 CEO).
But corporations? Ownership (whether it's a private company, or a publicly traded one via board members) has 100% flexibility to pay their executives however much they want. It's their money.
If I start a company in the future and it's very successful, I can't conceive of a proper argument that would limit how much I chose to pay whoever is running the place.
I'm pretty sure these would have been bought with company money. Like giveaways at Christmas parties etc.
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I'm hoping that's the case, I've half been waiting on some clarification. My contention basically stems from it being (or at least being postured as) a personal gift, rather than a company perk.
They can flip the PS5 and not get taxed. This is more value than a $500 Bonus for sure.
DamnProject EVE CEO spends $140k buying PS5’s for his workforce after the reveal
Hyung-Tae Kim celebrates the studio's reveal of the game by buying everyone Sony's latest console
"First reported by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this news is one of the most wholesome CEO stories in quite some time and, shows how much Kim values each of his employees.
To put this generous move into context, a PS5 in South Korea costs 628,000 won (that's approximately $540), so Kim has just spent 162,280,000 won ($140,400) on equipping his workforce with new generation gaming machines."
Btw anyone curious this is what their Studio set up is like:
First Child StudioAbout – :: S H I F T U P ::
Second Eve Studio
That's a pretty nice looking studio
wtf?????Project EVE CEO spends $140k buying PS5’s for his workforce after the reveal
Hyung-Tae Kim celebrates the studio's reveal of the game by buying everyone Sony's latest console
"First reported by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this news is one of the most wholesome CEO stories in quite some time and, shows how much Kim values each of his employees.
To put this generous move into context, a PS5 in South Korea costs 628,000 won (that's approximately $540), so Kim has just spent 162,280,000 won ($140,400) on equipping his workforce with new generation gaming machines."
Btw anyone curious this is what their Studio set up is like:
First Child StudioAbout – :: S H I F T U P ::
Second Eve Studio
How do they have that much money?
He owns the studio right?
He gave his staff a gift right?
On top of what they get paid as a salary right?
Have you got any other info?
I'm sure being part of the playstation showcase gets you some pull
Mobile money:
"Shiftup's Publisher Summary -
Total Shiftup mobile app revenue in August 2021 was $700k, including $100k for iOS apps and $600k for Android apps. Total mobile app downloads for Shiftup was 20k, including 6k iOS app downloads and 10k Android app downloads. Shiftup has a total of 9 apps, including 4 iOS apps, and 5 Android apps. Their top grossing app last month was 데스티니 차일드 and their most downloaded app was Destiny Child."
The game looks good and the SoP trailer definitely put the game on the map, so yeah. Appreciate those peeps; appreciate them hard!
Project EVE CEO spends $140k buying PS5’s for his workforce after the reveal
Hyung-Tae Kim celebrates the studio's reveal of the game by buying everyone Sony's latest console
"First reported by industry analyst Daniel Ahmad on Twitter, this news is one of the most wholesome CEO stories in quite some time and, shows how much Kim values each of his employees.
To put this generous move into context, a PS5 in South Korea costs 628,000 won (that's approximately $540), so Kim has just spent 162,280,000 won ($140,400) on equipping his workforce with new generation gaming machines."
Btw anyone curious this is what their Studio set up is like:
First Child StudioAbout – :: S H I F T U P ::
Second Eve Studio
Well DAMN !
