Don't be silly. There's still plenty of starry eyed hope and misplaced loyalty to run a death march through the holiday season.

less and less every year.

The reality of game dev life are often discussed online and at this stage if you consider the career you'd hear about it.

You can still engender a sense of camaraderie that makes it easy to exploit passionate engineers and artists without resorting to creep shit, but it's probably harder.