[…] 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
looksIS really fucked upFTFY
Whenever someone suggests I might travel to the US, I picture myself dying in some deportation prison. Why would I want that?
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.
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
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.
Not sure what group I belong in, as I wasn’t planning on going to the US anyway. But I would rather risk travelling to Kharkiv than to the US.
It seems to me that USA has progressed into having normal people problems instead of just minority problems. That said, I had an opportunity to go to a major conference it Vegas, fully paid by my employer in 2024 but I said to myself “fuck that”.
Nowadays I would just laugh at the idea.
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.
This was for business, not work.
Worth noting that this is from a GDC survey.
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)
