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Shouldn't a reporter know better than to just drop that number without saying anything about the cost of living in Poland? So now I have to go look it up if I

Shouldn't a reporter know better than to just drop that number without saying anything about the cost of living in Poland? So now I have to go look it up if I want to gain any actual information from this tweet. Then as I'm looking up what city their office is in, I realize the only reason I'm checking at all isn't because he told me CD Projekt is based in Poland, I just had a recollection they were based in a formerly-communist state. So now I've been able to fully determine this Schreier guy is a scumbag faster that I can determine just how scummy $400/mo or $700/mo is. Spoilers: Warsaw and https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Warsaw?displayCurrency=USD https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Warsaw?displayCurre...

senko 6y ago
He does know better. This headline draws more clicks, retweets and shares than "Eastern European game devs paid less than US-based ones."
approxim8ion 6y ago
Why is Schreier a scumbag? I'm not very interested in games so I don't follow his reporting, but I read his book and felt it was rather good.
- finnthehuman 6y ago
  The misleading nature of the Tweet to avoid putting the numbers in context. It's a drawdroppingly low number for those of us in cities that even the rest of the U.S. considers overpriced. That's what he's playing to, the people who will be shocked by the number using their own hometown as a frame of reference. He's not Tweeting any context like that it's X% below median SWE wage in Warsaw. If it's still an insultingly low wage even by the standards of the area, it doesn't hurt to put it in context.
  - approxim8ion 6y ago
    Okay, you meant in this context. I agree, but I suppose that's the nature of engagement-centric journalism today. I feared there was a bigger pattern about his behaviour/ethics/deeds that I was missing.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
  He's not a scumbag but he is part of that "left coast" subset of people that find it agregious people work for lower wages than people do in SF. The kind where the "the hand that feeds" is all low income people who willingly move to high cost of living cities and demand californianism to dominate policy. I wish games and tech press didn't have to even acknowledge this stuff. It's just ridiculous I already know all political affiliations of people in tech journalism just by reading one page of their twitter. I just want the days of independent and intelligent journalism again.
  - zyemuzu 6y ago
    Is that even necessary? From my experience, if you're a tech journalist and you're on twitter then you follow the same politics as the rest.
- rasz 6y ago
  He did compare fastest selling game of all time to Anthem, game EA planned to sell 6 million copies in first 3 months, but ended up selling ~2 million in two years, a total flop.
esyir 6y ago
Schrier is a scumbag, even with whatever passes for "journalism" in the games industry.

senko 6y ago

He does know better. This headline draws more clicks, retweets and shares than "Eastern European game devs paid less than US-based ones."

approxim8ion 6y ago

Why is Schreier a scumbag? I'm not very interested in games so I don't follow his reporting, but I read his book and felt it was rather good.

finnthehuman 6y ago
The misleading nature of the Tweet to avoid putting the numbers in context. It's a drawdroppingly low number for those of us in cities that even the rest of the U.S. considers overpriced. That's what he's playing to, the people who will be shocked by the number using their own hometown as a frame of reference. He's not Tweeting any context like that it's X% below median SWE wage in Warsaw. If it's still an insultingly low wage even by the standards of the area, it doesn't hurt to put it in context.
- approxim8ion 6y ago
  Okay, you meant in this context. I agree, but I suppose that's the nature of engagement-centric journalism today. I feared there was a bigger pattern about his behaviour/ethics/deeds that I was missing.
MeinBlutIstBlau 6y ago
He's not a scumbag but he is part of that "left coast" subset of people that find it agregious people work for lower wages than people do in SF. The kind where the "the hand that feeds" is all low income people who willingly move to high cost of living cities and demand californianism to dominate policy. I wish games and tech press didn't have to even acknowledge this stuff. It's just ridiculous I already know all political affiliations of people in tech journalism just by reading one page of their twitter. I just want the days of independent and intelligent journalism again.
- zyemuzu 6y ago
  Is that even necessary? From my experience, if you're a tech journalist and you're on twitter then you follow the same politics as the rest.
rasz 6y ago
He did compare fastest selling game of all time to Anthem, game EA planned to sell 6 million copies in first 3 months, but ended up selling ~2 million in two years, a total flop.

esyir 6y ago

Schrier is a scumbag, even with whatever passes for "journalism" in the games industry.