Game studio execs weigh in on reasons for the high costs of American game development https://massivelyop.com/2024/07/25/game-studio-execs-weigh-in-on-reasons-for-the-high-costs-of-american-game-development
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@massivelyop The high costs are laregly marketing's cocaine budget coupled with the massively overbloated C-suit exec pay packets and bonuses. How much was Kotic paid during his tenure at ActiBlizz again..?
If one of the above tries to tell you it's undervalued and overcrunched devs, they can go do one.
Healthcare costs are a factor but that's the fault of the insatiably greedy system that sees profit as the sole reason for healthcare in the first place. The one those aforementioned overpaid execs so fiercely defend. So is their insistence on having their employees physically present in offices near the C-suites expensive cities, and the subsequent cost of living that needs to be supported by the salary.
They are the problem up and down.
@massivelyop does it rhyme with 'Blioritizing short term profits over long term sustainability and investments in employee skills and growth'?