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This seems like a bad long-term strategy
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this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2026
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Can you explain why this would be a viable survival strategy for a company? If you kick out all your knowledge and skill every 2months then you will get crushed by better cheaper competition
It only makes sense if the company is getting paid to make the gaming industry worse.
Because there is enough willing labour to endure this treatment. AAA companies don't aspire to make high quality games, they aspire to make games that make money, which does not require quality except perhaps graphic fidelity and certainly doesn't require the best.
Because leadership at many companies suffers from the recency effect and only remembers what you've done for them lately.
"I saved us lots of money in staffing this quarter" gets rewarded, not "I'm leaving the short-term money on the table now so that we'll be more successful in 7 years"
Because capitalism doesn't seek perfection, and it's far from a fair system