Former Valve Writer Says “Giant Teams Just Don’t Work” for Making Games
Former Valve writer Chet Faliszek believes the games industry’s obsession with increasingly enormous development teams may be creating more problems than it solves (as most consumers have already realized), arguing that bigger teams don’t necessarily make better games.
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