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Game development caution

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Takeaways

• Lack of understanding leads to an aversion of responsibility.
  • Note, I wrote understanding, not knowledge
• Risk aversion seems to be the the overall direction a lot of industries are heading towards given the scale they handle.

Notes

• People seem to be afraid of taking responsibility of things, or being held accountable of?
• People seem to not be able to just do the thing.
  • They need to ask for permission?
  • They need to design it first?
• People don't want to take ownership of things they did not produce?
• People are conflict averse?
• Fear is avoiding risk, which is hindering the quality of the things we produce.
• The scale of things, money involved, makes people risk averse.

• I think they can do this because the scale of things involved lets them. Is it really not that much risk comparatively? For individuals or small teams it might seem like a huge risk, but if we compare to the size of corporations is it that much different? What if we normalize the metric, something like cost per individual? Are the costs that different? Most likely yes, if by individuals we only account for the ICs directly involved. If we account for shareholders, it might be a different story.
• What if this fear does not come from economical risks, but from a lack of understanding of what it takes to make something.
• Pandering to bigger and bigger audiences makes people conform to the norm, making everything monotone.