The games industry seems to be massively overrated. People who think non-game software is devoid of interesting problems to solve have blinders on. We hear s

The games industry seems to be massively overrated. People who think non-game software is devoid of interesting problems to solve have blinders on. We hear so many more problems about bad working conditions at game companies than any other type of software. All this BS about siloing QA off is ridiculous. The celebrity worship of project managers/game designers/executives at game companies is way out of context. The whole idea of spending hundreds of millions of dollars to produce a game and then selling each copy for $50-60 and having to rely on millions of fickle gamers to buy it is hugely problematic and inferior to other types of businesses. The whole adjacency to the entertainment industry is problematic. The vast # of creatives/artists & non-technical employees doing "toil" is problematic. I have been working 22 years.. if you asked me when I was 13 or 18 I would have said I wanted to build games. By the time I was 21 I already knew it was a bad industry. All my friends who did go into the games industry left within a few years. Everyone is vastly more happy now that they went to work on commercial/enterprise stuff.