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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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.
I'm under the impression that the video game industry is really, really competitive at essentially every level. I think it'd be interesting to see a comparison between that and the film industry, where I suspect a more legacy gatekeeping keeps established players more comfortable
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I don't think either of us thinks the mismanagement is a "mistake." I do think maybe the seductiveness of being in an industry like anime or video games creates different kinds of selective pressures that could possibly run everyone off a cliff simultaneously
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in the sense that the competitiveness pushes people to signal their value through overwork, even at the expense of productivity and profit?
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