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I don't think it's just "time to cook", pretty sure the devs having actual passion behind it also helps a lil bit.
Big corpos going just for the numbers are really good at stomping out all of that
Agreed. They could have left Dragon Age in the oven for three more years and it would still be meh.
honestly though, the game is a complete package AND it doesn't come with a bunch of fucking microtransactions/live-service/etc. etc. Gaming is the one area where I think we would all like to see our games be made the same way they were 10-15 years ago, instead of the bullshit from today.
So with more crunch and no unions? It goes both ways, it's not a monolithic culture where passage of time simply makes things worse
You should see unions soon. Gaming industry is going to force every game designer and developer under a union because of the insecurities. A union guarantees they can't fuck with you like the crunches. Or the absolute worse is when they have to do unpaid overtime which I think is illegal.
Most office workers are categorized as computer work, which was lobbied to be exempt from paid overtime laws.