It never made any sense at all for game dev studios to be located in SanFran. GameDev is not known for high salary positions, and then you sit your offices in the highest/second-highest rent place in the US?
There are a lot of super inconvenient things about SF and the bay area. yet people still commute t hours and live there. I think it was just a density of talent that California had bred which is now leaving. But yeah the rent goes up every year, and conditions get worse, and makes it less and less feasible for them to center the culture there.
It never made any sense at all for game dev studios to be located in SanFran. GameDev is not known for high salary positions, and then you sit your offices in the highest/second-highest rent place in the US?
There are a lot of super inconvenient things about SF and the bay area. yet people still commute t hours and live there. I think it was just a density of talent that California had bred which is now leaving. But yeah the rent goes up every year, and conditions get worse, and makes it less and less feasible for them to center the culture there.
San Fran also used to be beautiful, before all the homeless and feces.
It was still inconvenient. A lot of old cities are sited on places that are hard to build.