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At a certain point more employees becomes an active detriment to the development process. You have just too many layers for anything to get through, too many people with opportunities to meddle.

I get you but they would just lay off bigger teams as the game released.

When they say ‘keep the core small’, the greedy pricks are referring to minimising wages so that it doesn’t eat into profits.

Yeah I dont think this is a terrible takeaway but because the games are still AAA-sized with AAA bloat it ultimately just means moving mass to a contractor meat grinder instead of crunching employees

It’s gonna drop in the 2030’s and be a clapback against people who didn’t like Infinite long after people stopped caring

And yet they'll keep getting a blank check because reasons.

Yeah this might very well be even worse than what we had before because if an outsourcing studio unionizes and starts asking for more the company hiring them can just drop them

Posing it like they've invented this groundbreaking new success strategy when it's the same strategy used by every major production but he's just assigned this arbitrary hierarchy to it lmao

Every article now is about a magical core team of "5 engineers" and their job was managing 500 contractors (none of us receiving insurance, PTO, or even a single holiday) All completely legal according to us labor law ✌️

“Why can’t our small team do it? E33 was made by 33 devs surely our team can do it too.”

being a game dev is easy just have been hired by valve fifteen or more years ago

The tension also gets another dimension when you consider that the contractors/outsourced work tend to come from countries in the developing world, adding another example of how the developed world extracts labor and resources without giving those in the Global South their proper due.

"A core team of 75 people!" (Backed up by 300 contractors who didn't get their name in the credits if they weren't there when the game went gold)

Game needs an extra 25 developers working on a map maker

so its not like. hundreds of short term contractors there lol

Y'know, my first thought when I saw this game was that it seemed oddly desaturated, like some of the colour had leaked out during development.

“We don’t have crunch here. No, we outsource our crunch to third world countries that don’t matter”