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The supply being massively saturated is also what makes a union impossible to form. The over-saturation of supply means there's plenty of people willing to work
by Manuel_D 5y ago
The supply being massively saturated is also what makes a union impossible to form. The over-saturation of supply means there's plenty of people willing to work a non-union game dev job because the alternative is no job.
Also the EA-Blizzard-Activision-Ubisoft studios do consistently deliver quality games: COD, Battlefield, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, etc. Formulaic, perhaps, but it's tough to claim that these aren't quality and popular games. Valve, on the other hand, have only produced Half Life: Alyx in the last decade (you could include Artifact, but it flopped).
- screye 5y agoDota 2 has been in continuous development since 2011. The players have been kept quite happy.
- VRay 5y agothe alternative isn't "no job", it's a higher-paying but perceived-as-boring web dev job
- Manuel_D 5y agoFor programmers, sure. But for artists, QA, animators, and game designers (which collectively make up a far greater proportion of game development than programmers) not really. There are other jobs in these fields, but often with about the same compensation and without the allure of working on video games.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> The supply being massively saturated is also what makes a union impossible to form. The over-saturation of supply means there's plenty of people willing to work a non-union game dev job because the alternative is no job. Wait until you hear about the Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA.