Quote Originally Posted by Arrius View Post
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