The Cost of Creative Freedom: How the "Deprofessionalization" of the Video Game Industry Fuels Workplace Toxicity
By Bryant Francis, Senior Editor Boston, MA Executive Overview It is time to resurrect what has quickly become the most cursed industry buzzword of the mid-2020s: "deprofessionalization." First coined by analyst Simon Carless, popularized by marketing strategist Ryan Rigney, and continually inflicted upon the games industry by yours truly, the term describes a seismic structural…