I’m unimpressed with AAA game studios and the game dev employment pipeline. People KNOW that there’s a perpetual supply glut of devs lied up around the corner,

I’m unimpressed with AAA game studios and the game dev employment pipeline. People KNOW that there’s a perpetual supply glut of devs lied up around the corner, but still peddle their labor in a buyer’s market. They KNOW they’ll work on giant over-produced design-by-committee games that are awards-bait or gambling platforms and little more. They KNOW these companies are publicly traded and that accountants at public companies value creative vision and institutional knowledge at absolute zero. They KNOW indie is a saturated market with very few inspired designs that can be profitable even if the conditions are right. Working in game dev and then complaining about the conditions looks like running out in the rain and complaining it’s wet. I have next to no sympathy for the unionization activism. A huge part of how marketable your skillset is comes down to the nicheness of the domain, or at least how applicable your skills are to various niche domains. Game dev is not niche, and you’ve all made your bed chasing this dream.