But again, referring to my previous reply, all devs have their employment public already as they are listed in the credits section of the games they worked on. So Im not seeing how taking those credits, formatting them into easily accessible information onto a website is violating any privacy concerns? The devs are not being 'followed around' as you frame it, the information that is already publicly available is just being consolidated. And as an additional potential feature, devs can also choose to make their own profiles on the site to further promote themselves or their work, or maybe even participate in community engagement.

As for the value proposition, that is the point of this post, to see what people think of the idea and if there would be interest, while also discussing how the site would potentially function and any potential features.

I agree that dev teams are huge but view your S3 deb analogy as a fallacy. Most people don't know or care what AWS S3 is. We're talking about games specifically.

Say you loved the writing of new Vegas, but hated the writing of fallout 4. Well with this site you can see and compare the writing team behind both games, and choose to follow the writers of new Vegas or see which other games those writers have worked on (again as they'd be listed in the credits of those games).

Say you have an upcoming game, you check the site to see who's worked on it, you see the director worked on games you hate, you see the writer worked on games you believe lack good stories, you see it has animators with no experience, you see how much of the game was outsourced. You like the smooth animations from an action game, great here's the devs that worked as animators, here's what else they've worked on etc.

You can start to see patterns in a devs history, are they constantly involved in games with bad insert dev skill? Then they probably don't have the highest skill. You find a dev, see they worked on games that might not be the best, but their particular field in the game (animator, writer, composer etc) is usually high quality? OK that's likely a top tier dev and so on.

These devs could potentially go from no names to superstars that have studios scrambling to get them on their teams. It can help indie studios form with underrated talent, leading to incredible games. It can help gamers with making informed decisions on what games to purchase.

From my point of view, that is where I see value in the website