I had someone who works in the industry explain it to me like this:
Most game studios treat their employees as interchangeable components. Imagine a movie studio that just finished filming a movie - not everyone who was working on it will have more to do after that point. And the studio may not have open positions to fill on other films, so they let those additional people go instead of paying them to be on standby for months. After all, cameramen and grips and the like can always be found when the need arises. Apart from a handful of key members of the team, this is the fate of most game developers once their part of the project is completed.
Yeah, but modern AAA games are so expensive and take so many years to make that nobody can afford to have a pipeline with multiple games in development. The AAA industry is choking itself to death.
I had someone who works in the industry explain it to me like this:
Most game studios treat their employees as interchangeable components. Imagine a movie studio that just finished filming a movie - not everyone who was working on it will have more to do after that point. And the studio may not have open positions to fill on other films, so they let those additional people go instead of paying them to be on standby for months. After all, cameramen and grips and the like can always be found when the need arises. Apart from a handful of key members of the team, this is the fate of most game developers once their part of the project is completed.
If a company can’t manage a pipeline of work, then yes, they lose talent.
Yeah, but modern AAA games are so expensive and take so many years to make that nobody can afford to have a pipeline with multiple games in development. The AAA industry is choking itself to death.