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Game Programmer Avg: $84,000
Software Programmer Avg: $80,000
Game Illustrator Avg: $71,000
Illustrator Avg: $62,000
http://penguinrungames.com/images/averages.png
Ignoring the numbers for a moment... why is that chart using different scales for different bars? That strikes me as awfully misleading. I wonder what the purpose could be?
That's funny because I was just thinking that Examiner writers get paid too much.
I want to see Clifford come in here and school this guy. Pretty baldfaced that this guy wrote a blanket article about an entire industry because he doesn't like that Cliffy makes big money.
The answer to that should be pretty evident. It's a salary aggregation site. Different jobs have much different ranges of salaries. Notice how an engineer goes from 35k to 105k while a detective only goes from 25k to 75k?
Or do you think I am somehow responsible for the graphs this site uses as well? I do so love how people blame me for their problems with the source material. Take it up with the source, man.
Penguin Run Games is a salary aggregation site?The answer to that should be pretty evident. It's a salary aggregation site.
Um, it says right at the top of the image "Source: Indeed.com Salary Search."
You should really actually look at things a bit closer before trying to argue against them. Just sayin.
Blank article about an entire industry? Superstar developers are not the entire industry, sir. What are you talking about?
Hit the nail on the head. If there was tighter budgeting maybe funding would actually be distributed properly and devs would get more reasonable pay.LOL what a load of bull.
The problem of this industry is BUDGET CONTROL. They throw millions left and right for nothing. There is the problem. Not a specific part of a budget like salary mass.
The article is terrible and full of bullshit.
All of the numbers are on-record facts cited from verifiable, trusted sources.
All of the numbers are on-record facts cited from verifiable, trusted sources.
All of the numbers are on-record facts cited from verifiable, trusted sources.
You're attacking the wrong part of the equation. Attack the nature of the development model that says you need development team of several hundred people to make a game. Don't attack individuals for being successful.
The average android/iOS developer makes $96K a year? That statistic seems way off considering the amount of failed iOS games in comparison to successful iOS games. Do sites like this adjust for outliers at all, or do they just let the millionaire runaway successes push up the so called average? Or perhaps they just don't bother collecting data from the millions of iOS devs that had failed games.
All of the numbers are on-record facts cited from verifiable, trusted sources.
lol. If the indeed.com salary information is an "on-record fact from a verifiable, trusted source" then I guess we can conclude Lua Programmers make $128k and Lua Developers make $72k.
It's interesting how you conveniently ignored my data from the exact same "verifiable, trusted source" which indicates that game developers are actually underpaid. Incidentally, despite how completely unscientific and worthless this data is for any kind of meaningful research, that data actually happens to illustrate the correct state of reality - that game developers can make a lot more elsewhere.
Doesn't support your argument though, so it must be false right? Even when it's true.
Typical article from a braindead journalist.
A real martyr.
My disagreement with the article is that the author thinks there is such a thing as earning too much money when the market dictates the price of everything.
That's certainly a big problem, but the bigger problem is that, at least in this thread, he claims his problem is with the super rich developers like Cliffy B. But his ACTUAL article only mentions Cliff in one place, and then uses salary statistics (which are themselves already inaccurate as demonstrated throughout the last 2-3 pages of this thread) from people who are nothing like Cliffy B to conclude that "game developers" make too much money.
Article author is a terrible journalist if only because he didn't even take the time to go to the source data from which his cites pulled their information. That is unforgivable. He should be fucking ashamed and should never get a real journalism job, anywhere. Forever.
EDIT: I've only taken basic college level English classes and I would have gotten marked down a letter grade if I had pulled that shit on a paper.
According to his twitter, he's been offered six jobs since writing the article. I can't tell if he's lying or if people want him for clickbait.
EDIT: Ugh, read more of his twitter. So much misinformation. I'm pretty positive now that no one offered him a job, clickbait or not.
Will Smith made a lot of money on After Earth. More than these devs will make in their career.