As CEOs chase infinite growth, Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware gets "better games and better decisions" from a "conservative forecast" with "room to fail"
As CEOs chase infinite growth, Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware gets "better games and better decisions" from a "conservative forecast" with "room to fail"
FromSoftware is playing it safe even after Elden Ring's explosive success
I keep trying to explain to people that "efficiency" is actually really bad for the most part. It's a glass cannon; it can pump out a huge number of both necessary and unnecessary goods and services at record rates, but if someone calls in sick or something in the supply line is more than a day late, the whole thing just fucking collapses. I would be much happier living in a society that strongly values reliability over efficiency. For fucks sake, the first thing I think about when I hear the word "efficiency" is a cheap tiny apartment with paint all over the door hinges.
Acquaintances (obviously I don't say this to my own patients or their families since that's not my role in that situation) also get really mad when I tell them that their grandma dying of a brain bleed from a fall in-hospital is the "efficient" Healthcare system working as intended. Your grandma's life or peaceful death mean next to nothing to an efficient system. They're here to squeeze 98% of the necessary care out of half the people it takes to do it well, and sorry but keeping your grandma alive was just in the 2% of care that we didn't have time for today. But the hozpital got 10 other people sorted out in record time so focus on that for us, champ.
The first paragraph remineds me of motto of EDC community "two is one, one is none"; and while you can't have a backup for each individual employees, having some redundancy is just more efficient in the long run.
I don't even like Fromsoft games outside of Armoured Core 6 and I think these guys are legends. More companies could learn a thing or two from Fromsoft and Wube(creators of Factorio, finding a bug is literally a meme in the community because Wube is so good about fixing every tiny, obscure bug) The 2 best companies in gaming right now IMO.
At least some company gets it.
3 days later, half the company gets sacked.
If there's one company that doesn't do this, with leadership criticizing layoff culture, it's FromSoft. You can give some benefit of the doubt for this company as they have been here forever.
Admittedly their team is quite small and they do go through multiple crunch times + super stressful Japanese work culture though. The tradeoff being their employees find work 'meaningful' as their games are genre leaders.