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> there are lots of sw devs who are willing to put up with those conditions because they want to work on games. This is exactly the reason why I don't want to
by est31 8y ago
> there are lots of sw devs who are willing to put up with those conditions because they want to work on games.
This is exactly the reason why I don't want to pursue a career in game development. I find games exciting but that doesn't make it feel worth to me to make compromises in pay and working conditions. Instead it can just be a hobby.
- cableshaft 8y agoI used to be in the game industry. It's now just a hobby for me. If you're willing to work on small games in your spare time, you don't have to kill yourself to work on those things, and can still make things. There are times where I'm tempted to get a full time job in the industry again, but then I read articles like these and I remember why I'm still out. I have nowhere near as much passion about any other industries though, and it can be really hard to keep going to work every day at "corporate job X".
- hinkley 8y agoI’m trying to talk my kid into doing FX instead of games, so I get to see him in his twenties. It’s not working so far but he has figured out that EA and Activision are both bad actors.
- meheleventyone 8y agoPresuming you mean TV and movie FX then the working conditions aren’t great there either.
- ido 8y agoAlso the huge multinationals are...huge - it varies a lot between different offices and teams. There is no one EA or Activision experience, they are very heterogeneous entities.