Nearly one-third of non-US game developers have cancelled plans to travel to the country because of immigration and gender identity policies
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/Open linkView original on lemmy.ca558
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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
Whenever someone suggests I might travel to the US, I picture myself dying in some deportation prison. Why would I want that?
Especially with the stuff I write here I'm terrified of having to go there for work or something very important like that.
Do not worry fellow internetter, there is nobody compiling a detailed dossier of your online presence to provide to border agents upon your arrival.
Please continue to freely speak derogatorily of the regime in places easily accessible to us friendly internetters, safe in the knowledge that you are definitely not on a very real watch list, compiled by people who genuinely want to hurt you, if only you'd come close enough for them to do so....
Just refuse to go. There's no way they can force you to do that and it would be a slam dunk for an unfair dismissal if they decided to really dig their heels in.
Happened to people I know before Trump.
Always been an authoritarian police state.
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.
FTFY
What could IS have changed? I mean I'd agree that they are fucked up, but what did they fuck up concerning the current state of the USA? Were you expecting them to create a califate in north america?
Who wants to get rapped, left to die in a pig pen while being tortured, and/or executed on the streets because you were in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the ICE agent felt like murdering someone.
Of the four people I know in Australia who travel to the US semi regularly, not one is concerned at all, 3 of the 4 support Trump and the other one thinks it's overblown media hyperbole. All white folks. These aren't friends per se but acquaintances.
Regularly as.on at.least.omce every year and occasioanly twice.
Yet. Give it some time, they are already murdering model white citizens.
Pretty soon the US dollar is going to tank to the point at which no one is going to be able to afford to buy games. So there was zero point me putting my life at risk in order to advertise there.
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 :
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
hah, yes. Xfiles vibes
Hey the US is fucking that up too supporting proxy terrorists.
Countries with resources....
Would want to go that place with or without Trump.
Well, it would if you get all your news from this place.
LOL I've heard first hand experiences. And this was under 'democratic' Biden.
Fuck that authoritarian shithole
a dangerous place to travel cause ? Police officer might ask your paper ? Glad they boycot it. I dont want the ppl that fall into that type of moral panic to make my game
Yeah, if you still can't see what's happening to your country then I'm not sure what to tell you. I'm not going to risk having a clip unloaded into my back by untrained goons because I don't happen to have a US passport (hell, even that doesn't seem to keep you safe)
Also even if the US was the safest country in the world, why would I want to spend money in a shithole country that's threatening to annex my own and others?
Like I said. If that's what you believe, I'm glad you self-removed from my hobby
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.
I want you to know, for almost no reason, that I thought you said "zero yoghurt" at the end there and I wondered for five whole glorious seconds what AV task is usually done with yoghurt.
Breakfast. Sometimes lunch.
I appreciate you letting me know haha.
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.
another third are reconsidering going to the USA
This was for business, not work.
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.
Usually oppressive regimes that let international tourists in are generally smart enough to leave them alone. For example I would probably be perfectly safe going to the Philippines.
The problem the US has is regardless of what their policy might actually be, and of course it changes on a daily basis, the ICE goons they hire don't have enough space in their pea-sized brains for rules and regulations, they are so damn trigger happy that'll go for anyone. Including people they've been explicitly told to leave alone.
Worth noting that this is from a GDC survey.
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.
Only 1/3 (well less than acutally)?
The other 2/3 never had plans to go to America.
Article title here (Be): "People are dumping the US as a holiday destination.
Article: 15%.
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)