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AAA titles get hundreds of millions of dollars of development effort, and they can't even bother do basic things for the community and instead thwart community

AAA titles get hundreds of millions of dollars of development effort, and they can't even bother do basic things for the community and instead thwart community efforts. The problem is that the studios have been bought up by corrupt corporate bean counters who just see video games as a product to sell and not a passion they share in. Educated consumers are the bane of sleazy businessmen, and the salvation of honest ones.

dijit 6y ago
It's sad that you think we're "out to get you", we're just making games. Consider the widely acknowledged fact tat the working hours are brutal, the pay is quite low for C/C++ programmers, the average experience in the industry before burnout is 5 years. Nobody would do this if the passion wasn't there. This industry basically couldn't exist without the passion for making games. And, every time we fail we're yelled at for being incompetent. Every trade off we make is derided by people who never actually tried to make something like this. Every time we try to increase the amount we're paid, or set a decent working schedule (longer development times mean more salaries because working on a project longer) we're told that we're "sleazy business men" trying to make a profit. Like I said in another comment, the only way for you to get "better" games is to set your expectations for games lower than AAA (IE: stop buying AAA's), make us slaves or pay more. And people (in aggregate) do not want to pay more.
- JetSpiegel 6y ago
  > Every time we try to increase the amount we're paid, or set a decent working schedule (longer development times mean more salaries because working on a project longer) we're told that we're "sleazy business men" trying to make a profit. Who's this "we"? The workers or the shareholders? Is there any unionizing effort on the videogame industry?

dijit 6y ago

It's sad that you think we're "out to get you", we're just making games. Consider the widely acknowledged fact tat the working hours are brutal, the pay is quite low for C/C++ programmers, the average experience in the industry before burnout is 5 years. Nobody would do this if the passion wasn't there. This industry basically couldn't exist without the passion for making games. And, every time we fail we're yelled at for being incompetent. Every trade off we make is derided by people who never actually tried to make something like this. Every time we try to increase the amount we're paid, or set a decent working schedule (longer development times mean more salaries because working on a project longer) we're told that we're "sleazy business men" trying to make a profit. Like I said in another comment, the only way for you to get "better" games is to set your expectations for games lower than AAA (IE: stop buying AAA's), make us slaves or pay more. And people (in aggregate) do not want to pay more.

JetSpiegel 6y ago
> Every time we try to increase the amount we're paid, or set a decent working schedule (longer development times mean more salaries because working on a project longer) we're told that we're "sleazy business men" trying to make a profit. Who's this "we"? The workers or the shareholders? Is there any unionizing effort on the videogame industry?