>>53929901Anon, unlike the rest of the Japanese (or western, kek) gaming industry, Game Freak staffers (rank and file, not just executives) get the absolute best employee remuneration package in the Japanese industry (I'm sure the good EU studios match, but they have to by law, not choice unlike GF) - 4 weeks paid holidays, no mandated weekend or public holiday work (recompense if asked to work public holidays), they were offered compensation packages for food, travel and even a WFH allowance at least 3 years before it was a worldwide trend. Flexible 40 hour week (ie can start at 10 pm and work all night, or start at 6 am and fuck off before the rest the office - as long as you clock your 40 and do your work - almost certainly a holdover from Gen 1's development and Masuda working nights to blast techno with the other technohead in the studio, without annoying the fuck out of the non-technohead staff Tajiri had hired). And at every launch, they get feedback from kids thanking them for the games they made.
But yeah, I'm sure they instead yearn for the delusion of an overtly attached manchild, seething his kiddy toy is peter pan. They can always leave to work elsewhere, or start their own studio, like Turner did to make the games they wish to, you know. Game Freak aren't holding them at gunpoint, any of them. It's not america after all.
