QA is a valuable skill set that is regularly underpaid and overworked. A good QA team makes or breaks a project, and there are plenty of examples of this in modern gaming.
Fuck “honor”, whatever the hell that means, and pay people what they are worth.
The game industry needs to be reorganized around the people who make the games instead of finance them.
>The game industry needs to be reorganized around the people who make the games instead of finance them.
I don't see how this would work. Somebody has to pay all the salaries, legal expenses, expensive equipment and software etc. Expecting people that want to work on video games to pull that kind of money out of pocket to fund a project that may or may not make any money is unreasonable. Nobody that wants to invest their money is going to give it to people who won't give them a return.
Most of the horror stories you are hearing from the gaming industry are coming from large multinational studios, many of which are struggling financially.
Just look at the most recent battlefield release or cyberpunk for examples of what happens when you don’t value QA.