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It’s always sucked - at least with large companies.
Nope. All companies started in the 90s as groups of gamerbros. When they started to make loads of money and had to get managers cause they didnt want to do management was when it started to go down.
That's really not at all what happened. Gaming development goes back to the 70s and gamerbro culture has almost nothing to do with history of game dev, that's a more recent thing that happened with DOTA and the like.
Blizzard made awesome games and was led by someone who wanted to make awesome games. Eventually they gave upper management to someone who doesnt play games and now we have empty sheels
Atari was founded by engineers, and went on to tell its game developers they were interchangeable code monkeys. So the six guys who made half of Atari's profits founded Activision, and after fighting in court to make third-party publishing legal, went on to mistreat their developers the same way. So a bunch of guys left Activision to found Accolade, which went on to mistreat its developers, who founded Acclaim, and-- look. If you think any behind-the-scenes problems started recently, you are very mistaken.
There is a landfill full of 4 KB cartridges, which should have been a monument to why crunch is bad. It was buried and forgotten two years before the NES existed.