Saudi Arabia Is Investing $38 Billion to Become a Video-Game Hub

[Barozi]

Shatts said:

mZuzek said:

Imagine the wonders they could do if they invested 10% of that into making better and more specialized colleges or programs for people to learn programming and game development, so that videogames could actually come from the people of Saudi Arabia, instead of the money.

Honestly tho, I wondered the same thing for Microsoft. Why don't they just expand and improve on themselves rather than targeting others. But I guess that's what happens when you have immense wealth, just so much easier and faster.

Very naive thinking. How is that supposed to work? Clone developers? There's a limited amount of workforce and all companies in that industry are competing for them. You can't hire what doesn't exist. Besides, you just compared a company to a government.

There's no difference between opening new studios and then poach experienced developers from other studios to fill up the vacant positions or just straight up buying entire studios. You can't just fill up all the spots with newbies.

Last edited by Barozi - on 03 April 2023