Also having done a production adjacent gig in LA, nothing straightens your planning out like no-room-for-debate overtime rates and regs. You need to shoot fourteen hours? That’s fine, here’s what it will cost. Still sound good? Puts pressure back on management / leadership.

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Right that’s the thing. The model absolutely makes sense for modern development. But you need trade guilds /unions and carried benefits to make the model work for the people actually doing all that work.

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If game studios are shifting to the Hollywood model, game workers are going to have to shift more quickly to the union model in order to survive.

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I understand what you're talking about. It's being upfront instead of being lied, which is a step in the right direction. Companies in-between pay less as average as seen in other industries However, the Hollywood model is not a good one either, mind you, VFX studios are a big example of that...

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well, the article is just CEO words. "We chose to kept the core team small instead of grow and shrink". Sure, pretty words, but still is the same point - you contract ppl outsourcing one-and-done with low pay and no hope of continuing. "Co-development" so they don't get benefits either. Bad.

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