I guess the reason of this is because of the upper management always give harsh deadline. Maybe because they don't understand how thing's going in software development or they just don't care at all. It happen in many software house in my country. They just love to give an unreasonable deadline, for example, company have the project for a year, it reasonable deadline if they just do one project at a time, but they also give another big project in that time of the year. And of course, they hope all of them finish in that year. See how good is that? The fact is, in my country, it's not only happen in game development, but also in another software development area.
Additional notes, we also don't get overtime bonus or yearly bonus or project bonus or even share...... a.k.a no reward at all. Sometimes, they also think we can't do our jobs right if there is just a small bug....
