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DArtagnan
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I always wanted to make games but once I actually started to understand what it involved I quickly turned to normal 9-17 IT work.
That's like me
Except I'm trying to make games on the side...
I always wanted to make games but once I actually started to understand what it involved I quickly turned to normal 9-17 IT work.
My blood boils when I read sob stories like that. I know that some of you are totally disconnected from how the majority of the world lives -in real poverty - and I don`t particularly blame you, for sometimes it`s hard to envision other mindsets without the experience.
And yet, in times where the whole countries` economies are endangered because of some greedy jackasses & people are dropping like flies from malnutrition/disease/etc -whining about someone who apparently happened to work for one of the best companies in the industry is perhaps, well, inappropriate.
And that`s putting it mildly.
He wasn't whining; he was making a point: people prefer making a decent living to living in poverty — not primarily for themselves but for their loved ones. Seems a rather common sensical point. I'm not sure why it required riding in on the high horse.
Cat mutilators aside there are people who are good and ask no money. Good example is game mods. Its amazing how much effort they put into them and just give them away for free.Most starving artists who only do it for the art produce utter drivel. I never, ever want to see another 'edgy' or 'artsy' performance again.
My blood boils when I read sob stories like that. I know that some of you are totally disconnected from how the majority of the world lives -in real poverty - and I don`t particularly blame you, for sometimes it`s hard to envision other mindsets without the experience.
And yet, in times where the whole countries` economies are endangered because of some greedy jackasses & people are dropping like flies from malnutrition/disease/etc -whining about someone who apparently happened to work for one of the best companies in the industry is perhaps, well, inappropriate.
And that`s putting it mildly.
I TOTALLY get what you're saying, and it wasn't my intention to make it a sob story. In fact, I exaggerated a fair amount of the poverty scenario that I wrote about.
Well, if you think that working for huge software companies compares to living in poverty then we do live in some parallel universes. Unless our definitions of poverty - as often happens - differ.
No, I just took him literally when he made reference to "just about starving" and sleeping on garage-sale matresses — that's poverty by most definitions — but apparently he was exaggerating.
…I truly believe that the core of the video gaming industry still lies within the 15-24 age range,…
Right, so you`ll insist that these big companies either don`t pay you at all or pay such a pittance you`re reduced to near-starvation? Also, that if you have a skill set/education needed to work for such companies, you`re really unable to find decent job elsewhere?
Cat mutilators aside there are people who are good and ask no money. Good example is game mods. Its amazing how much effort they put into them and just give them away for free.
But speaking of game artists its very hard to make coin out of it at least here even if you are good. Industry is so small that nobody will hire you no matter what your skills. Its much better to just become i.e a web designer.