>>717154846
The founding devs escape with golden parachutes and new job offers. Often with founding a new studio, that even if it crashes and burns they will milk millions from investors, and they might win the lottery by having some idiot publisher buy them outright wholesale. Either way, they make millions of tens of millions.

The middle types, often get re-hired ANYWAYS despite perpetually sinking games because they are masters of grifting the HR system and know how to bullshit. This is fundamentally all they're good at though.

The lowest cogs just cycle through big companies mindlessly because they're desperate for work.