Eastern Europe is gonna drop a lot of costs without affecting the quality much at all - hell, the innate cultural pushback against DIE stuff might actually end up making it better, assuming their hiring managers look for literally anything but the dumbest stooges. 30% of a san francisco salary is kingly living in Romania.
south east asia, though? lol, aren't outsourced rakeshes already ruining all their code?
Depends on which asian countries specifically, I wouldn't be shocked if India was a place they would deliberately avoid for that reason. This was annoying to wake up to because I love how they're considering all the places I've been researching generally. Yes, the income tax among other things is that good.
They're probably talking about countries like Vietnam, Thailand that sort of region, the cost of living is so fucking high has any kind of person looking to set up a business you end up making more money simply leaving your country as an expat than you would living in the west. So even though the regulatory factors are an issue it's also going to be finances as well.
I'm fucking surprised Larian Studios is consider Warsaw though, could this mean a change? Doubtful but we'll see, maybe the only reason some of the indie studios are doing it is because there's real government pressure on them.
I thought India was “South Asia,” and “Southeast Asia” was Thailand/Vietnam/Cambodia (which I’m sure have their own issues, but I can’t imagine they deserve to be lumped in with India).
Eastern Europe is gonna drop a lot of costs without affecting the quality much at all - hell, the innate cultural pushback against DIE stuff might actually end up making it better, assuming their hiring managers look for literally anything but the dumbest stooges. 30% of a san francisco salary is kingly living in Romania.
south east asia, though? lol, aren't outsourced rakeshes already ruining all their code?
Depends on which asian countries specifically, I wouldn't be shocked if India was a place they would deliberately avoid for that reason. This was annoying to wake up to because I love how they're considering all the places I've been researching generally. Yes, the income tax among other things is that good.
They're probably talking about countries like Vietnam, Thailand that sort of region, the cost of living is so fucking high has any kind of person looking to set up a business you end up making more money simply leaving your country as an expat than you would living in the west. So even though the regulatory factors are an issue it's also going to be finances as well.
I'm fucking surprised Larian Studios is consider Warsaw though, could this mean a change? Doubtful but we'll see, maybe the only reason some of the indie studios are doing it is because there's real government pressure on them.
In a sentence, that's what I wrote an essay about, above.
I thought India was “South Asia,” and “Southeast Asia” was Thailand/Vietnam/Cambodia (which I’m sure have their own issues, but I can’t imagine they deserve to be lumped in with India).