Stephen Totilo's new article about EA's CEO compensation fits perfectly into the characterization I had already illustrated. Despite invoking SEC filings, he seems unwilling or unable to make accurate inferences from them
corporategamedev.substack.com/p/the-select...
I'd concede he is a far better writer than I. I feel vindicated for having this impression:
"The sloppiness of the numbers he uses, plus lack of analysis to infer from filings makes him unapproachable. When I read his work, he deliberate writes in a way to depict a certain amount of hopelessness...
It's fun to see people critizing the narrative of "it's more than 30 game devs that made this" for Clair Expedition.
But will then turnaround and glorify Hideo Kojima as if he's god's gift to game design and completely pretend like he doesn't have an army of devs doing all of the work