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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Meanwhile in the east you have companies like FromSoftware and Capcom who are just laughing all the way to the bank, because their competition is all run by idiots.

The worst part is the CEO's/whatever of each company know each other, too. You'll get C-suites come into game companies who not only have never played a game before, but don't even remotely understand how software development works. I worked for a company where the owner made himself Project Manager and ran that project straight into the ground. Tens of millions on worthless overtime while we sat around waiting for another build that would fail, on a weekend, for months.

Larian sounds like some sort of a bizarro-world company. They even have awful investors but managed to keep creative/overall control.