Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher

The same can be said of every job, I agree 👍

The industry has created this problem. They’re the ones who got players used to abundant patches and expansions. It’s not fair to blame them now.

Sounds like this guy has a good publisher.

This article is about manor lords, an indie solo dev who released their game into early access and in 2.5 months hasn't released a groundshaking perfect version. Whoever is complaining about the speed of development should be ignored.

As for others who have yet to release a game but are being pushed by the publisher to hurry up and get it out are an entirely different matter.

For the article, I like to look to games like terraria, which took quite a long time between patches, and honestly said they were completely done patching the game and the patched it a few more times. People may lose interest for a bit, but each large patch will bring people back as long as it was a good game.

Those working conditions aren't even good for companies seeking long-term growth. If you want to produce 5 years long projects that are high quality enough to storm the market, you need people who stays healthy and doesn't get burnt, which requires consistent long-term humane conditions, or else you're destroying whatever talent you had in your hands and will end up with a mediocre product.

Capitalism already has enough problems on a vacuum, but its current dominant version of prioritizing profits in the next quarter over literally anything else is disastrous.