>>717154618
If what previous anons said is true, many of these practices are downstream of a cost-cutting practice by bean counters.

>Fire everyone with experience
>then hire fresh out of uni
>new people do not know how to use the old engines
>no problem: use unreal
>experienced programmers aren't hired because you're using unreal
>new devs are likely just twitter addicts who don't care about games, can't program, can't code, can't draw, can't write, and are generally clueless
>they are the majority of the dev team and shoot down ideas not matching twitter politics and promote twitter promoted ideas
>thus: a mixture of top down and bottom up practices

It's easy to say "game devs are idiots" and let management off the hook, and easy to say the opposite. Both have a LOT to blame and both need to make adjustments.

>>717154274
Ding ding ding. They're not hiring winners, they're hiring desperate people who can't work elsewhere.

>>717153896
Correct. But I feel the course correction is more gonna be "we need to keep budgets lower and just hire Chinese devs instead". Putting shit out on budget, on time, and something coherently looking like the original ideas? Probably gonna be a big selling point.