Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-116.68.122.163-20180628145149/@comment-28169398-20180629162506

SM Racer wrote: Darrell Holcomb wrote: That is not cynical at all. You are correct. But you are correct about every business. Pepsi does not care about making cola. They care about making money. Yes! I got no problem with it. Capitalism at its best. Best model in the world. This is so not true. People gravitate to certain activities because they love them. Once there. they have to make a living, and as good a living as possible, hence the money piece. While this isn't true for every career (not true for ditch digging, presumably), for video games and auto racing there are a lot of people who LOVE that stuff and try to get jobs a places like FM. I think that passion shows in the game itself, which is why RR3 is as good as it is. It is the balancing act of the artist and the accountant. What you are saying is true in the beginning of a venture, however once you open the door even a crack to investors, you pretty much lose the opportunity to make decisions that are not profit driven.

Even Steve Jobs got booted by the board. He came back and became a concurring hero, for many, but genius like that is extremely rare, and that is about the only time that the visionaries overrule the bean counters.