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Whenever I hear of a studio that has “grown 50%” since their last successful release, I get worried. So many companies grow way too fast. On the other hand you see small teams staying small, and doing great work for decades. A successful game can keep you afloat for ages if you stay small.

Why am I seeing so many strange takes about this article all of a sudden. We want people to have long term jobs in which they do not fear constantly being laid off, by staying away from boom-and-bust, which they intend!!

I feel like the takes are pretty self explanatory Outsourcing studios in other parts of the entertainment industry are often pretty bad places to work at, with no guarantee of any job being "long term", and unionizing won't prevent the companies hiring your outsourcing studio from dropping you

Absolutely some companies are bad to work for, either directly or as exdev. So we'd rather they were all hired directly and then immediately laid off instead? What is this reasoning?

We want people who work externally to get credit, and they literally name a company in the article! It's not revolutionary, and they don't pretend it is! They literally mention how it's better for those in employment, and it retains knowledge. It's a win-win! They're honest! Wtf do you want??

There was another threaded discussion yesterday, and a conclusion out of that was that there may be a huge co-dev experience difference between the US and the EU. Perhaps US folks have it way worse, and EU folks have it much better: bsky.app/profile/ryst...