Creators in Game Companies Become Salarymen

Creators in Game Companies Become Salarymen
	Today we want to talk about the recent situation in game companies: no more creator.
	How could that happen? We still have new games so we should have creators in the industry.
	Keiji Inafune, who left Capcom lately, had talked about this situation too.
	The cause of this situation is that game companies become bigger and bigger.
	Big company has more salarymen huh?
	As I say bigger, I mean becoming more famous. Many game companies entered stock market in 1990s, in early 2000s most of them entered First Section of Tokyo Stock Exchange.
	How is that relating to the salarymen situation?
	Well, game industry was just somekind of outlaw in the past.
	What the...
	Well, they really worked with outlaw.
	What the hell!!
	Game developers were loser in our society. Academic status was low and couldn't get a job in normal company. Well some had good academic result but once they said they would enter game industry, others would say they are crazy. So these guys really can't live in normal society.
	Oh...
	Though they are not successful people in the society, they are not rubbish. When they work in their field, they can do well and the result is Japan's game industry today. We call them creators.
	Is that different now?
	Nowadays game companies enter stock market and they consider academic result quite important.
	Good academic result has problem?
	Academic result is just the level of knowledge, which is not useful in actual society. And high academic status just mean those guys pay effort to achieve their goal in a certain field, such people are useful in business.
	What's wrong if those guys pay effort to achieve their goal...
	That is the ability to do 1+1. However, creators need to turn 0 to 1, to discover something new. This is not academic result can support. That's why those guys can't become creators.
	Creativity huh.
	But game companies prefer such candidate now. And graduate think game industry is a good business field to work with. That's why there are more and more salarymen.
	This is not only about young generation. Keiji Inafune said older developers are facing the same problem too.
	That's simple. Creators left the company the only those salarymen remain. Capcom, SQUARE ENIX, BANDAI NAMCO and Tecmo are all in the same situation. Old creators left and form their own companies. Only rubbish remain in big company so real creator can only create game outside.
	Why are they rubbish...
	As I said old developers are loser and they only doing fine when they do what they like. Now they already have nothing new to create and just stay to get salary. They don't pay effort to change themselves and learn more to deal with the new movement.
	As for those young staff, are they really that bad?
	Not really. A company full of salarymen can be successful.
	Which company.
	Nintendo.
	Nintendo!?
	Nintendo nowadays is composed by salarymen. Only a few creators exist, e.g. Shigeru Miyamoto. The Big N only need a few creators to turn 0 to 1. Then they have a whole army of salarymen to do 1+1 until it becomes 10. That's how Brain Age and WiiFit, WiiSports being created.
	Huh.
	Why can't other companies do the same?
	Those graduate joining Nintendo are the best. As the Big N is really famous and the salary is high.
	How about other companies?
	Other companies' brand value can't compare with Nintendo. Good graduate would choose finance or doctor. Those guys who choose game companies other than Nintendo, their academic status are not the best, such staff can't continue 1+1 until 10.
	Really...
	And they can't turn 0 to 10. Well if they can do 1+1 until 8, that's good enough, but they fail.
	Why?
	Top of the companies don't give their staff time and money, so they can only do 1+1 till 5. These are salarymen and they are making games. That's why new games nowadays have low quality.
	Don't say that...
	By the way, we users need to pay attention to those games made by real creators and full effort. That would be the best message of what we want and grow the next-gen developer in game industy.
	Users need to determine what is good and what is bad.
	Lastly, I know what we have said is impolite to many staff in game industry. Hope you can rebuke us with your games. If you can create something great, we're wrong then. If you can't, this mean there should be some problem exist in your company and I hope you can think about it and solve the situation.