This observation is just not true, or maybe it varies depending on your position. As a developer in the industry, you will rarely be without a job or in a posi

This observation is just not true, or maybe it varies depending on your position. As a developer in the industry, you will rarely be without a job or in a position where you can not jump to another studio. Once you are in the industry, you will end up with friends at studios all over the place. The turnover and 'grass is greener' syndrome in the industry is just too high for networking not to naturally happen. You do not even have to try. As for the friendless of the people, while I like working in games for the games, the culture that develops around the people working on games is the bigger draw.