In a post on Slashdot SirBruce explains another reason why the industry is fucked up.

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Moving between companies is a great way to promote your career.

Consider that a huge team of people worked on WoW. Now, Blizzard is quite happy, and probably wants to keep the lead designer, producer, etc. to keep working on the live team, the next expansion, etc.

But what if you’re one of the assistant designer? Well, unless Blizard decides to start making another MMOG, you’re probably out of luck getting promoted to a lead design position. But other companies will have lots of MMOGs in development and need lots of lead designers. Same goes for producers, QA, writers… the list goes on and on.

Blizzard, meanwhile, will probably put a lot of the money it makes from WoW into more non-MMOG titles. Okay if that’s what you want to do, but some people want to work on MMOGs specifically.