Finally Understanding SE's Decision Making (And Why It Won't Change)

[HunkyMarauder]

They really still don't like hiring outside sources, and the outside sources don't like the harsh limitations Japan imposes upon them.
Overwork culture, global lower-than-average salary, affordable for very low living standards of housing, and the language problems being one of the biggest reasons.

Japan has a serious brain drain problem for a while now. Even the gaming industry has a technical brain drain. Like why work for a game studio when you can work as a SWE at Google for 200k if you're someone with 15 years of experience.

There's a reason there's been barely innovation in gameplay (outside of the indie scene) since game studios find it far easier to find artists and writers than people with technical competency lol

[Valence]

Yeah but they are completely incapable of hiring anyone who isn't Japanese because apparently the language barrier is too strong lmao

One wonders how studios like CD Projekt Red manages to communicate internally with people from all over Europe.

Yet another self-own by the Japanese resistance to globalization.

They won't make me believe it's hard to find japanese talents in a country over a hundred million souls.

Japan has a serious brain drain problem for a while now. Even the gaming industry has a technical brain drain. Like why work for a game studio when you can work as a SWE at Google for 200k if you're someone with 15 years of experience.

There's a reason there's been barely innovation in gameplay (outside of the indie scene) since game studios find it far easier to find artists and writers than people with technical competency lol

This isn't a problem inherent to Japan, but to the whole video game industry. There is a reason average ages in most studios don't go over 30, that people have garbage wages and are paid "in passion", don't count their hours because they don't have families to feed, are fresh and naive out of uni and are doing their dream job of development. The only people that oversaturate the market are found in creative jobs because they don't have much choices outside of games (especially game designers and testers). Programmers and engineers tend to get out once they start having families of their own and need actual money and stable careers to back it up which they can find in most firms that aren't about video gaming.

[Jeeqbit]

They won't make me believe it's hard to find japanese talents in a country over a hundred million souls.

It's an ageing population. So an issue is many of the people they will employ will have a more old fashioned mindset and that is a common problem in society. Often a younger person will shock you with what they can come up with.

There is a reason average ages in most studios don't go over 30, that people have garbage wages and are paid "in passion", don't count their hours because they don't have families to feed

The sad thing is a lot of us would do it for free, considering that's literally what modders and tool developers are doing. They just need to ask for the help. It's that simple.

[ovIm]

The sad thing is a lot of us would do it for free, considering that's literally what modders and tool developers are doing. They just need to ask for the help. It's that simple.

Since you are saying that: OP posted about Warframe. Warframe has a system in place called Tennogen, where fans and modders are allowed to create their own skins and share them with the Warframe developer. Good stuff then gets implemented in the game. Sure, that would require quite a bit of lawyer work to set such a system up without risk of legal liability, but it would not be impossible to allow fan contributions in their game (after a quality check, of course).

[Jeeqbit]

where fans and modders are allowed to create their own skins and share them with the Warframe developer. Good stuff then gets implemented in the game. Sure, that would require quite a bit of lawyer work to set such a system up without risk of legal liability, but it would not be impossible to allow fan contributions in their game (after a quality check, of course).

They could also do that via github. It has a pull request system, where they can be approved or declined. It is used regularly by developers around the world to accept contributions from random people. They are checked and verified before being approved.

The issue of course is that some of their files and source will be proprietary and can't be shared publicly. But that's fine. They don't need to put everything there. Just things like lua files, shaders, textures and excel files, which the community would easily pour over and improve.

[Valence]

It's an ageing population. So an issue is many of the people they will employ will have a more old fashioned mindset and that is a common problem in society. Often a younger person will shock you with what they can come up with.

The sad thing is a lot of us would do it for free, considering that's literally what modders and tool developers are doing. They just need to ask for the help. It's that simple.

But that's the whole point. It's mostly young people that work in that industry. If anything it's the industry that should the least be affected by aging demographics...