Classic example of supply and demand. More people want to become game devs than there are jobs, and so they can be abused knowing that if they complain, they wi

Classic example of supply and demand. More people want to become game devs than there are jobs, and so they can be abused knowing that if they complain, they will be replaced. Tools like Unity, Gamemaker etc are part of the solution : lower the barrier of entry to expand the market, which might even eventually introduce IT level employee competition. Might also be useful if the current generation of game dev 'elites' retire. Props to them for their games, but it often seems their success bias allows them to view crunch and other terrible development practices as normal.