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I know it sounds trite, but it really is supply and demand. So so so many developers want to build games. The market for developers making things that _aren't

I know it sounds trite, but it really is supply and demand. So so so many developers want to build games. The market for developers making things that _aren't_ games is red-hot. But because they REALLY want to develop games, game companies can use them to their limit for low pay.

foobarian 6y ago
The game industry has the unique advantage that entry level developers spend their preceding 10-15 years playing games and building up a desire to make them. Imagine if kids had Enterprise Software consoles and played with Jira tickets on them. The rest of the industry would be swimming in applicants :-)