Interesting read. Since he likely knows a lot of these teams, nothing is stopping him emailing them gift cards.

Sure, tip the company that just canceled a multiple year project and awarded everyone with a layoff

Hmm. Maybe a donation to their respective union funds?

Ah yes, we must spread tipping culture to all facets of life, clearly.

There are other ways of showing appreciation than throwing money at people. The problem is their livelihood is dependent on that kind of financial gratitude because of the actions of you and your ilk, Mr. Ybarra.

Your tip is "make another game and I'll buy it because the last one was good".

I bought your product and you want me to pay extra because it lived up to what it promised?

You want me to pay someone more for simply doing their job? If you aren't paying them enough, that they needs tips to survive, that seems like an employer underpaying. If it's tip or I fuck with your food or chase you down in the street... Then that's extortion.

"But with proper wages instead of tips the cost goes up." THE COST IS ALREADY UP BECAUSE OF THE TIP YOU IDIOT, except it isn't standardised or garunteed.

"But if there is no tips to incentivise people they won't give good service." What ever happened to do your job, get paid. Fuck it up and get fired.?

All it does is introduces stress between customer and staff. And causes a sense of entitlement to tips for things that don't need it at all. Why the fuck is a self-checkour machine asking for a tip!?

A tip should be for EXCEPTIONAL service. Not for the bare minimum.

Tipping culture can get fucked in the ass with a sideways chair.

Video game landlords have arrived.

$10-20 once, to the whole company, instead of raises when he was still president.

Ah yes. In the future you'll have to pay more than $70, because you need to tip the devs so they can get paid. What's that? Not happy enough with the game? No pay for the team behind it then. It's only fair.

Everyone : If you want to give them more how about paying them better while the game is in development? Former Blizzard president : No, not like that.

"Please pay my employees for me"

Workers should own the businesses they work for.

He could fucking tip his employees instead of laying them off.

They can’t pay people fairly because they stole all the profits, is what he’s saying out loud.

yeah thats called microtransactions and cosmetics.

pls stop already.

I want to go back to the 90's

The first time I get a tip option after completing a AAA game is the day I decide to go full Butlerian Jihad.

Keep your horrible tipping culture to yourself, please.

Fractal bullshit. Every aspect is both awful on its face and viciously dishonest.

To pick one: no fucking way does that money reach anyone responsible for making the game.

100% they're planning on pocketing the tips.

Fuck your shareholders. Tipping a fucking mutual fund.

I wish I had that kind of money

A bit of an unpopular opinion I'd love a tip option. Especially if I could tip a specific person. Like if I liked the soundtrack maybe I would tip the composer or whatever. Obviously I would require a few rules

1. 100% of tips go to the developers or whoever I'm tipping
2. Dev pays don't get cut because of expected tips.

However neither of these will be the case even if they implement something like that.

This idea seems laughable for big AAA games/studios, but I don't actually hate the idea for smaller indie devs. Especially since some indie games are so dirt cheap.