> You still get paid. In the case of the game industry, you still got paid, but markedly less than a comparable software engineering job outside the game indus

> You still get paid. In the case of the game industry, you still got paid, but markedly less than a comparable software engineering job outside the game industry and with poor working conditions in general. This is tolerated because you're invested in the work; when that work just gets thrown away, you might as well have been working on the next Facebook for Cats and making the correspondingly at-market/inflated salary.