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I think if the last few years have shown us anything, it's that tech companies aren't good at making games. They just don't know how to do it.

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I think a good lesson is that when Microsoft got into gaming they had a real long term commitment and took it seriously. They put in the work to understand it.

In contrast, Amazon and Google felt they could buy their way in based on a playbook that might have worked with other verticals. That unsurprisingly failed.

And even then they haven't been great at making games over the long term. To the extent that they have now pivoted to buying whole publishers with well established multi-billion dollar portfolios.

Making games is hard. Your failure modes are the union of software and entertainment failure modes.

Honestly, I find it impressive that any good games are ever made.

hold my beer.

Especially at the wage and wlb offered by the industry.

That’s what makes it hard to compete.

It’s passion industry wages similar to working on special effects in Hollywood. These industries of course take advantage as much as they’re able. A lot of the pay is measured in “cool job” units.

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