It’s curious how common this pattern is in creative industries. I think the mismanagement is more burned into the culture of the industries than structural.https://twitter.com/Patrick_Macias/status/1139322033735520256 …
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A *lot* of this seems explicable by the poor assumption that doubling staff can halve production time. Not true anywhere and nowhere less than in creative spaces. It's very hard to extend creatives' productive time, but easy to eat it up in within/between-teams communication
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See, maximal charity says “It’s just a mistake” but I am a capitalist and the first rule of capitalism is that when every firm in an industry makes the same mistake it may or may not be mistaken but it’s definitely not an accident. They *think* they’re winning with this method.
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Here’s the conclusion I feel forced into: I think management in the video games industry (at a certain tier; studio heads and maybe a level or two down) is succeeding in their objectives. Those objectives only incidentally produce productivity and profits.
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Hegel would like this nuance
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