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You can use my own experience as a little bit of anecdotal evidence. I started out of collegue and started programming in C/C++ as a game dev. I started at 40K
by hackits 9y ago
You can use my own experience as a little bit of anecdotal evidence. I started out of collegue and started programming in C/C++ as a game dev. I started at 40K AUD in Sydney in 2002 just before the housing boom here in Australia. Granted stayed with the business for 4 years. During the time my colleges got a job in web development CRUD application systems for the web. Their starting salary was 85K.
I remember walking into the CTO/CEO office at the time asking how much they valued experienced C/C++ developers. They honestly said at the time that (frank) who had 10+ years doing game dev they couldn't see any point in paying him anymore than 60K a year. I thanked them for their time and went back to my desk.
Next day I walked in and handed in my resignation. Both the CEO/CTO was shocked. The next week I walked into a web development shop (oracle/java/javascript) and tripped my salary.
- sbov 9y agoGame dev is built on the backs of people sacrificing salary for "working in games". You really can't compare it to any other job. All my friends who worked with C/C++ in game dev that moved out of game dev, but still used C/C++, at least doubled their salary.
- hackits 9y agoA job is a job. For me the simple truth of the matter is I couldn't support the quality of life I wanted to live working in games and the salary and rewards they where offering. It was fun, but going back to C/C++ is something I would avoid at all costs, although if the salary doubled over night I would put up with C++ although I think I would take up drinking.