Except for Shareholder Chad, the overwhelming majority of folks here are more concerned for the livelihoods of thousands of workers in the industry who have been laid off during this contraction than they are about their stock holdings or about the concept of video games going away. This reckless behavior has resulted in an industry where those who have been put out of work can’t find new employment elsewhere, because every company in the industry is eliminating jobs rather than hiring. It seems callous in that light to reassure us that the “video game economy” is fine—who cares if the people who make it go are suffering, as long as shareholders and investors are happy?
See, I would have found that quote you pulled to read differently. Because the video game economy is -- apparently -- fine, that's not so much part of the equation for why these things keep happening; it highlights the idea that this is
only for the investors and stockholders and that it really doesn't need to be happening.
In this way, the statement wouldn't be trying to reassure people here of anything, but to highlight the real cause (hint: it's related to greed or something). One can further infer this by how
@manfromthedam put "responsible" in scare quotes, then later in multi-scare quotes. The implication is that the company isn't being responsible at all (which I think we all knew a long time ago), even if it's played as such for investors.
Further, the indication is that this is widespread in the industry, which makes it a problem that a lot of companies are willfully creating (or lacking the foresight not to create). I might suggest that this leads to a video game economy that isn't, in actuality, fine. But I think the takeaway is meant to be that companies are creating this problem out of entirely selfish and misbegotten ambitions.
And we have it here:
"Our overruling principle is to always maximize shareholder value in any given situation."
www.gamedeveloper.com
Beyond that, since you specifically called him out about this particular topic, I do recall this
@Shareholder Chad fellow making a statement (a couple times)
about liquidating his Microsoft stock because of their recent massive job cuts. It's possible these are empty, or otherwise performative, statements, of course, and I don't really follow the guy to know what all he says, but it's quite the juxtaposition and you did just randomly throw it out there.
I'd also be hesitant to insist that "the vast majority of folks here" are more concerned for the workers than about the concept of video games going away(?), though I wouldn't expect to find many voicing an opposition to that idea.