Yeah, I largely agree. You as the developer know if you have leverage, and seniority generally means you have more leverage. This is true in any field. But, if

Yeah, I largely agree. You as the developer know if you have leverage, and seniority generally means you have more leverage. This is true in any field. But, if there are more jobs available, then you need less leverage to walk at a bad offer. So yeah, of course all the guys leaving Blizzard are getting snatched up, and there is a lot of demand to fill their shoes, but those roles need to be filled by equally competent people, not just anyone off the street. It seems that in games, you either have leverage to negotiate, or you don't. There doesn't seem to be a credible middle-ground like in other software disciplines where warm bodies capable of writing for loops are all that's required to build the product.