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> Google can launch products with a much better work/life balance than most games studios, and their engineers make a lot more money for it too.

I wonder: if Google decided to get into the video game business, would it fall into the game studio trap?

I'm not really sure what the answer is myself. For what it's worth, when I was at Microsoft, I heard no horror stories about overwork at MGS. However, any such stories would be second-hand at best because I never interacted with any MGS people.