Canada Exploits Video Game Advantage

[Bar Sinister]

Not sure if this thread belongs here, but video games are part of entertainment so here it is. It seems that games designers in Britain are upset over the advantages Canada offers to game designers. Apparently government subsidies and tax advantages have lured many British game designers to Canada resulting in Canada now being number three in the production of video games. The situation has become so grave from a British point of view that game designing firms there have been pressuring the British government to do something about the evil Canadians.

Canada exploiting video game advantage -- U.K. industry

 

[Johnnny]

All i can say about the addiction is that some people can manage it and some cant

 

[Kreskin]

The video game industry is now bigger than the music industry. The Brits were as sleep at the wheel listening to the Stones.

 

[ironsides]

What is there to exploit, offer a good job with benefits and people will apply, if Canada and the gaming industry can do it, more power to them.

 

[shadowshiv]

Not sure if this thread belongs here, but video games are part of entertainment so here it is. It seems that games designers in Britain are upset over the advantages Canada offers to game designers. Apparently government subsidies and tax advantages have lured many British game designers to Canada resulting in Canada now being number three in the production of video games. The situation has become so grave from a British point of view that game designing firms there have been pressuring the British government to do something about the evil Canadians.

Canada exploiting video game advantage -- U.K. industry

It has happened in the film/television industry as well(many shows that take place in an American city are actually filmed in Vancouver). If the British game designers are really that upset, why don't they complain to the British government and get the same subsidies?

 

[EagleSmack]

It has happened in the film/television industry as well(many shows that take place in an American city are actually filmed in Vancouver). If the British game designers are really that upset, why don't they complain to the British government and get the same subsidies?

That is funny and so true. I got a kick out of a movie about Boston actually filmed in Vancover. Thats ok though. Vancover must be offering better deals than us so all's fair.

 

[gekl]

I get tired of seeing BC double for other places. I can always spot the skyline and the trees.

Its unfortunate that Canada is more interested in getting foreign creators to make their products here as opposed to making our own products and sending them abroad.
Not that video games are appealing to me-but it is part of the pattern of Canada wanting to be a tax credit and services hub. The body and not the brain. The film situation is embarrassing. BC goes to california every year and practically begs that they make their stuff here. How about developing an imagination?
Someone told me they call BC film workers "snowbacks."

Hollywood has been making films in BC since the late 70s(or the 1920s if you want to get technical) and we havent generated our own content or at least boosted it from around 20 percent-which is the bare minimum. They may even count news programming in that number.

Essentially though-English canadians relie on the US for "fantasy" content-that is, popular things canadians actually watch like action, mystery, suspense, sci-fi, (if we didnt actually watch them-US movies and tv wouldnt be shown here-but we do because we like them-or are jsut too passive to resist them--our book situation is the same)-the stuff we make-the arty pretentious films, quirky comedies, dreary mundane dramas, etc. and the like-very few Canadians watch them-but they receive enormous promotion from the government as "official" Canadian movies. But the reason Porky's, an exploitation comedy made by a US filmmaker, from 1982 remains English canada's highest grossing movie is because the public isnt interested in Atom Egoyan. They want the popular stuff.
Australia and New Zealand have a better track record for popular interesting movies set in their countries.
Anyway we have a service/resource mindset here.

 

[karrie]

..... is because the public isnt interested in Atom Egoyan. They want the popular stuff.

Well yeah... you can only watch so many movies about incest and the Oedipus complex... if his movies were the main fare of Canadian consumption, we'd need to worry.

 

[Bcool]

Not sure if this thread belongs here, but video games are part of entertainment so here it is. It seems that games designers in Britain are upset over the advantages Canada offers to game designers. Apparently government subsidies and tax advantages have lured many British game designers to Canada resulting in Canada now being number three in the production of video games. The situation has become so grave from a British point of view that game designing firms there have been pressuring the British government to do something about the evil Canadians.

Canada exploiting video game advantage -- U.K. industry

How can it be Canada's fault when the UK gov does this: "Britain's finance chief George Osborne, chancellor of the exchequer, cancelled the Labour government's proposed support package for the games industry in his first budget adopted last month."

I guess the fit of giggles that Danielle Parr had must have had a sinister, evil tone to it to cause this response: "In a statement highlighting how Parr followed her comments to the BBC with an "outburst of laughter," TIGA CEO Richard Wilson warned Britain's coalition government to "wake up to the Canadian threat" facing the U.K. industry."

Threatening stuff indeed, giggles.