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People are willing to sacrifice an enormous amount to work in gaming. The salaries are poor. The work hours are poor. The work environments are poor. The benef
by MattGaiser 5y ago
People are willing to sacrifice an enormous amount to work in gaming.
The salaries are poor. The work hours are poor. The work environments are poor. The benefits are poor.
Just by those metrics they should only be able to hire bottom of the barrel Wordpress engineers. But they can get people who are far better than that.
- Florin_Andrei 5y ago> People are willing to sacrifice an enormous amount to work in gaming. There are many ways you could build a good resume. Gaming companies don't have a monopoly on that.
- munchbunny 5y agoGaming companies do have a monopoly on working in gaming though. "Working on games" is the main motivator, not resume building.
- SV_BubbleTime 5y agoI believe independent gaming has never been more popular.
- munchbunny 5y agoIt is, but being an indie game dev is a lot like founding a tech startup. It's extremely risky if you don't already have industry experience to understand how producing games works, and you get industry experience from well established studios.
- 1ark 5y agoAgreed, but it is also much worse than a tech startup. It is the most competitive and saturated market, and participants are up against prodigies of talent that work long and hard on their projects. A tech startup usually has some strategy to attack a problem, where a game is more of a creative passion project with hope of pleasing a very outspoken customer base.
- MattGaiser 5y agoThey don’t work in gaming for career benefits. They want to work on games.
- buggeryorkshire 5y agoIt may be they don't realise it, but they just want to work on stuff people visibly use. I worked on games nearly 30 years ago and it was awesome. Did the usual corporate stuff after that, but last few years have been working at a food delivery company you know that is huge. There is something awesome about working somewhere where your fuckups and successes are visible. I see people sat outside pubs using my app and have to have a nosey to see their reaction, bad or good. It's pretty addictive.
- azornathogron 5y agoGame dev also skews very young (I believe - I don't have stats, sorry). I think it gets a lot of people who don't necessarily realise just how bad the culture and other aspects are compared to a lot of other jobs.
- rasz 5y agoPeople are willing to sacrifice an enormous amount to work in _Entertainment_. Games, Music, Movies, TV. Its hard not to exploit people when you have constant stream of candidates begging you to work for exposure. Here is an example casting for Netflix "TV" show, Hyperdrive, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHR66Isz3Ug https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHR66Isz3Ug where whole driver compensation amounted to 2 weeks hotel stay and plane ticket. No damage coverage (cars in $0.1-1mil range), no car prep allowance, no per diem, no insurance, no contest prizes. Produced by a woman too, Charlize Theron.