05-07-2025, 12:45 AM
Like many things in the west, labour costs are just too high to make video game development viable and there is much better pay in corporate software.
So the game industry will be in the endless cycle of burning through young talent that ships shitty code and moves on after because they can't offer any long term perspective to anyone.
Outsourcing will only solve the problem for so long. Because at this rate places like Poland are getting more expensive and the real cheap places like Russia are no longer accessible or like in India they fuck things up too much even for gaming standards.
But as long as the money keeps rolling in and folks want their dopamine shots the wheels will continue to grind.
What is a new development though is the games in 'eternal' development just to keep the studio funded I guess. There is Mass Effect, GTA, Perfect Dark. Just money sinks with no end of development in sight. Will GTA ship in 2026, 2027, 2028? Everyone working on it knows, their job is gone when it ships. So why bother shipping.
So the game industry will be in the endless cycle of burning through young talent that ships shitty code and moves on after because they can't offer any long term perspective to anyone.
Outsourcing will only solve the problem for so long. Because at this rate places like Poland are getting more expensive and the real cheap places like Russia are no longer accessible or like in India they fuck things up too much even for gaming standards.
But as long as the money keeps rolling in and folks want their dopamine shots the wheels will continue to grind.
What is a new development though is the games in 'eternal' development just to keep the studio funded I guess. There is Mass Effect, GTA, Perfect Dark. Just money sinks with no end of development in sight. Will GTA ship in 2026, 2027, 2028? Everyone working on it knows, their job is gone when it ships. So why bother shipping.
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