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HulkWasRight on 06 September 2012

I'ld like more details on individual studios. Criticism that applies to THQ as a whole my not neccesarily apply to Vigil games.



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NintendoPie on 06 September 2012
spurgeonryan said:
NintendoPie said:
It's kind of hard to believe most of this.


Pretty much every job you ever get is going to have someone complaining in it. Even you may be wronged every now and again. I think this is so strange for us because it is not often that you hear a lot of it. Especially with the video game industry. Maybe one or two stories a year on it. This is a ton all at once!

It's kind of hard to also believe all these "employees."



Scoobes on 07 September 2012
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.




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binary solo on 07 September 2012

Microsoft, winner of the big 3. I was actually expecting Ninty to be the winner, though it's a close 2nd.

I wonder why they didn't drill down into the 1st party units like Naughty Dog and Sony Santa Monica.



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oniyide on 07 September 2012
spurgeonryan said:
wfz said:
Surprise, surprise.. Valve.. :P

Nintendo's piece worries me.


It worries me because it basically says Nintendo of Japan is running things here and that is why things sort of suck. Maybe I was wrong to blame Reggie?


I've been saying Reggie and NOA in general are nothing but puppets for Nintendo for years, glad to see we are finally getting a little bit of proof on that.

SCEA is interesting, they seem to have the opposite problem they are getting NO direction from there Japan heads and i could really see that. Matter of fact reading through this none of it is farfetched for any company as you can see it translates even to some of their games



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F0X on 07 September 2012

Love it. Game development isn't perfect, much less anything worth romanticizing. Bad management is almost universal, and I assume (hope) Valve succeeds by minimizing the internal bureaucracy. Speaking of Nintendo of America, I can only hope that NCL is more competent than Reggie's crew. Can't say for sure considering the details of Xenoblade's North American release...



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