Louisiana enhancing its tax incentives for game developers

@Tradio

Thank you for that dose of political common sense!

@Tradio yea love how these random people feel the need to comment on politics when this should be about the expansion of game development.

@Space Cobra
Pretty sure he read some Thomas Paine before he posted that.

@Tradio How much do you want to be that cold, hard cash will go to people who simply create a game company overnight and then do nothing as a result. Louisianna I love you like my brother but you are corrupt as the day is long.

@Tradio
That's a pretty ignorant statement. The stimulus has added another trillion+ in debt which all Americans will have to pay for. The only state govts that actually turned down money were for federal state coops that would ask state govts to pay more from their citizens to complete these "shovel ready projects" (which was nothing but a BS slush fund anyway).

If someone asked you if you want some of the money now that you are going to be paying for later, you would be dumb not to take it. In your twisted sense of reality, you would remove any tax credits which would lead to no new jobs, stifled growth, and in the end, lowered tax revenues and higher debt. Take an econ class, instead of just towing your party's line.

All hail our fearless leader!

@Tradio

What are you talking about? This is the sort of thing that will bring Louisiana out of its 20 years of depression. Louisiana historically (at the state level not federal level) is all about the democratic political spectrum. Payroll tax cuts means employers are willing to hire more people and even pay them more.

In the state of Louisiana it has one of the lowest average wages, the highest poverty rate.. yet the unemployment rate is very low. It is a state full of hard workers being held back by bureaucratic red tape. I-10 was under construction for 15 years by state employed workers at 30+ dollars per hour and as soon as the new governor took over they shut down the operation which was long past it's original target completion and let contractors bid on it. Now the project will be done by the end of the year. 2 years and it's done.

The I-10 project was also funded by the MOVIE INDUSTRY and the massive tax cuts we gave them to film here (which is why more films per capita are filmed here in the past year or so than any other state with the exception of California). We shut down the interstate so they can film and use the opportunity of road closer (that the state is being paid for) to make massive swift renovations to one of the most traveled roads in the USA.

EA's deal with LSU will likely and likely is bringing in a great deal of revenue into the education system which has suffered MASSIVE budget cuts over the last 10 years. Why you ask? Because it is illegal in Louisiana to cut budgets of state officials/agencies to make budget, leaving education as the only target. This of course being a system in place by state bureaucrats for decades. The same reason Disney World wasn't put here. Finally the state is taking a new direction, maybe one day Louisiana won't be regarded as the corrupt shithole it has become.

@Anticrawl

Also I apologize for going off on a rant. A state like Louisiana is a prime place to expand game development. It is great to see job opportunities expanding to areas and people who didn't have access to them. Not everything needs to be on the west coast.

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery I love me some gumbo, but that's gotta be the best pot ever if they only get one per game :\

@Stevetrop Man of Mystery

...Are you from southern Louisiana? Cause people often confuse creole, french, cajun and just Louisiana style. I mean there is no stern definition but my grandmother was creole, a mix of spanish/french/white/black ancestry and the food they make..... well only another creole would ever like. Creole is generally someone of Spanish-American ancestry and is usually mixed in with the gulf coastal black culture and more recently influenced by french culture and finally English/American culture in modern day. I've heard folks describe creole gumbo as "fish-head stew" as an example of one of the many varieties, all of which smell like road-kill to the untrained nose. I have vague memories of her kitchen and jars with liquid containing animal parts - it was like some sort of mad scientist laboratory.

Now my dad cooks gumbo like his dad, who is from a Cajun family in Hackberry and that stuff is delicious, a brown rue with sausage, potatoes, chicken, and whatever else we want served over rice. And of course lots and lots of filé and a few bay leaves. We usually serve it with potato salad too because of their time in Germany. I hate filé though, stuff makes me gag.

In any case if you really meant Creole gumbo... wow man you have adventurous tastes!

@Anticrawl I'm from south-eastern Louisiana and creole gumbo is most definitely not "fish-head stew," it's usually a lighter roux and not as spicy as cajun, but still very much resembles it, with seafood, chicken, and/or chicken. I think okra is more common in creole than cajun too. But really, they're both equally delicious, just a little different.

@Mr Sax Appeal I meant sausage and/or chicken.

@Raffi256
That doesn't make any sense.

Why wouldn't these game studios set up shop in Louisiana?

@ThePenIsMightier

As a Shreveport native, the better question is why is Benton there and not Shreveport

@ployer

As a Vicksburg, MS native, I wonder why Tallulah is there and not Shreveport or even Hammond.

@TexRob

Your comment is vague at best, uninformed at worst

@TexRob

Excuse me while I look out my door.........

Yup, not a marsh.

Apparently all of the southwest is desert to you, too?

@TexRob

Another victim of the public school system. Apparently you've never heard of the mass exile by France or the Louisiana purchase? Two pivotal moments in the formation of our nation. You know... not a big deal or anything.

@TexRob

or that Louisiana breeds more pro athletes per capita than any other state. One of the few ares in the US where natural selection still runs its course, partially due to environmental dangers, others due to poverty and poor medical facilities.

@TexRob Wow, Idiot. Just because New Orleans is below sea level doesn't mean the whole state is. I live south-east of New Orleans, and even though there is a marsh on the other side of the levee in my backyard, my house is most definitely above sea level and have never flooded.

@giovedi

Those are the areas of the state most needing economic aid. Shreveport is doing just fine. Those are the problem crime and corruption area, a powerful well funded business could upscale the entire area (and actually is at the moment).

@giovedi

Plus all the colleges in the area. Young people are willing to work slave wages/hours - which is what the game industry is all about.