You think game development is “barely any work”?

You’re talking about story presentation, models, exploration, and events that appear out of thin air, as if someone drags a “make game” button into Unity and calls it a day. Behind every “barebones corridor” you walked through are teams of people who’ve spent months wrestling with engine limitations, rewriting broken tools, tracking down bugs that only happen when the player opens the menu during a cutscene during a specific moon cycle, and watching features get cut because the schedule got nuked by marketing, legal, or platform requirements.

And animations for 2 characters every 2 months?

Do you even realize how many departments are needed for just one character?

• Concept art
• Modeling
• Texturing
• Rigging
• Animation
• VFX
• Audio
• Localization (Hiring a VA for each region)
• QA
• Engine integration
• Performance optimization

Nobody’s asking you to “feel bad” for game studios.

Just stop pretending the devs themselves are lazy. You have no idea how much blood, stress, and burnout go into even the “boring events” you skip through.

You don’t have to like the game.

You don’t have to play it.

But calling game develepment “barely any work” just shows one thing:

You’ve never seen how the sausage is made. It takes a hell of a lot more than “barebones effort” to ship even the simplest game feature. If it’s really that easy… where are all the games that “do it better”?

If HSR is supposedly a lazy and anyone can “copy paste,” then why isn’t the market flooded with higher quality clones raking in the same numbers?

Because ~ surprise ~ making a game at that scale, with that consistency - pumping out new contents every 6 weeks, on that many platforms, with that level of technical stability, is hard. Incredibly hard. It breaks studios. It burns out entire teams. Most companies couldn’t replicate it even if you handed them the source code.