LogFAQs > #902153226

For most of them, yes.

Publishers dicking them around. Console makers as well. And the public at large pulling on them every which way.

It becomes increasingly needlessly expensive to make games and it's largely not for the sake of even making better games but just tech wank to entice the public into buying the newest shiny thing. Facilitating a very toxic consumer culture that in turn makes the mere act of making modern video games way more trying than it needs to be.

Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo all are seldom acting in a way that serves game development specifically, and gaming. They more often are doing things that make both of those things have a harder time living healthily. Publishers sooner see a product than the art and human work involved in it and this informs how they treat everything and so their actions are poison to game development as well.

Then you have the people bitching about every stupid thing, like people who don't even have an interest in the game still demanding it cater to their specific views of decency.

There are devs that are super scummy though.
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