Volition reviews about "management"

Always behind industry trends Chronic understaffing. Micromanagement. Poor leadership. Uncompetitive salary. Very few bonuses which are always small when they are given. Severe overdependence on outsourcing. Constant delays make games take forever to release which end up un-polished. Stagnant game design philosophy leads to non-competitive mediocre products. IP can never escape the shadow of other games that dominate the genre, but are given higher weight than the more unique IP's the studio has produced. Scheduling leads to burnout. Little room for employee skill growth.

Some departments are heavily political Area is boring--flat land, not much to do Has become a single-franchise studio Management team are more of a hindrance than a help Milestone goals are treated with relative indifference util it becomes a crisis

So many cooks wanting a say in creative decisions and management and keeps adding more, like it’s a corporate goal. Not enough people in UI, tech art, tech design, lighting. Volition insists on building their own tools like it’s 2002, but they have one tenth the team they need to support them, so the they’ve been falling behind for the last 5 or more years. Company will never ship a successful game that’s not Saints Row. Too many people involved to really be sharp and creative.

Inexperience in senior areas of studio leadership and management leads to avoidable mistakes in studio direction

Management sometimes stood in the way of progress/innovation.

Upper management is a bit of a blackbox.

You aren't always given the resources necessary to complete tasks to the quality level matching the rest of the industry. Higher levels of management can be a bit opaque and the studio is often hamstrung by tight budgets, resulting in non-competitive perks compared to other game studios.

The studio leadership and management made poor decisions and major pivots that often cost the content team lots of lost time and lower quality.