@_RustyRooster Food for thoughts indeed. You are safe if you can make it to the top of the food chain, i.e. studios backed directly by the platform holders, e.g. 343 Industries by Xbox or Naughty dog by Sony. At the opposite side, aka, indies, it's basically starving hoping for a hit one day.

@chel_mour There should be a virtuous consumption of video games aka pirating so called AAA games and buying only when the developers & editors deserve it

@_RustyRooster Says who (not a path)?

@CombinedAnalogs Literally everyone lol

@_RustyRooster stakeholders profit from gamedev, not developers

@equacc I’m not anticapitalism or anything but these stakeholders find themselves in a lot of places where people are wondering why things are so bad

@_RustyRooster I was a QA at a game studio many years ago. The developers had beds. That should scare you.

@merklegroot You’re mistaken with an episode of Black Mirror

@_RustyRooster The same as McDonald's is making billions but most people would not call it a solid career path. Games are expensive to make, a lot of people are making them and there are few cash cows. Supply and demand.

@cavar_si This is an interesting comparison

@_RustyRooster It should be the dream job of any techie but seems more like putting your fingers in a vice and squeezing them (or worse appendages)

@chebupashka This is very sad, I want to go hunt the witches responsible for it

@_RustyRooster I think it is considered!

@krushnarajx People choosing video game as a career are often struggling way more than the others

@_RustyRooster It’s not often not considered a serious career path by us techies due to poor working conditions, excessive overtime(crunch time), unrealistic expectations(sometimes), high stress levels, and limited job security. Because most of them are passionate about it they are underpaid.

@KarlPambou1 Why isn’t there a sane alternative to this since the industry is so lucrative? This is what I don’t understand

@_RustyRooster How is the worth measured?

@XiebaC1 You’re missing the point, today lots of techies came into tech because of video games and end up in web or other fields because there isn’t enough jobs, while the industry is very lucrative

@_RustyRooster why did you ask a question that you already know the answer to?

@stevensmpldv Human interactions 101 crash course lesson 1: an effective way to get people’s opinions is by asking questions