I worked in the game industry between 2000 and 2006, mostly on MMO titles. This is a simple supply and demand problem. There is a HUGE supply of young males w

I worked in the game industry between 2000 and 2006, mostly on MMO titles. This is a simple supply and demand problem. There is a HUGE supply of young males who want to work in the gaming industry, and the customer demand for games of the quality which they can supply is insufficient. This is why you have so many gaming schools that can't actually take all the potential students who want to join, but very few of the graduates can actually get jobs. In the last few years, there have been so many great games that I can't possibly play them all. This has been lamented by many in recent times. There are just so many people working on games that there are a ton of great games out there, and some of the really good games get ignored because of the pile-on effect that a few of the great games get. I should note that Puppy Games titles are awesome and work on Linux. Not related: Lately I've been playing FTL a lot. It's awesome too.