Pissed Off ‘Employees’ Bash Pretty Much Every Major Video Game Company

[Scoobes]

Mr Khan said:

Scoobes said:
Basically sounds like everyone in the games industry has a culture problem of crunch-time, inefficiency and general mismanagement. This is obviously a bit exaggerated but it's not that surprising to read, especially after some of the recent work scandals (LA Noire & Team Bondi anyone?).

Well, everyone except Valve who sound like employment nirvana.

I would wonder if the Valve folks who work on the Steam service are as happy. I think the distinction here is that Valve gets to let their employees roam free, allowing them to produce the very best or most original of their own ideas, because they have a stable revenue stream, and so the Steam folks are the breadwinners while everyone else gets to create (and thus Valve games are almost universally good, since they get all the tlc they deserve). Similar to Google, where you probably have the Google Ads and Analytics people a little more frazzled than everyone else, because their results bolster the rest of the company, allowing the others to take more leisure.

From what I've read of their employee handbook, I was under the impression that they're one and the same. The guys working on the Steam platform can switch to working on games if they wish to and vice versa. I assume they'd need a minimum number to work on the Steam platform at any given time though.