Not all projects at EA, Activision, and so on, succeed. The success of these companies are dominated by a few successes, which also tend to be milking existing

Not all projects at EA, Activision, and so on, succeed. The success of these companies are dominated by a few successes, which also tend to be milking existing IPs without much innovation. Even so, the average developer at these companies is still stressed out, because of the Zipf's law nature of project success. That is, it's very likely the project they're working on is not doing so well and will not succeed, and thus, they're overworked, etc. I'd say there's an exodus much like the web tech industry, a shift from behemoths like Microsoft and IBM to smaller startups like Uber, etc.