Fucking-A right. I work my ass off, and it's of no ones concern what I do with the money I make. The only asshole in this is the guy whining about what people who aren't him make a year.
Yes, I do what I love. But I shouldn't make good money because it's not dangerous or because I should just be happy to create games? What in the actual fuck. I have a wife and kids that I'm trying to support, a house payment, car payment (not a sports car). FOR FUCKS SAKE.
Will Smith made a lot of money on After Earth. More than these devs will make in their career.
$81,000 for an educated, skilled technically-oriented employee on the coasts... It's not an obscene amount of money.
Believe. He's mentioned in the article as a way to throw people off.
I wonder how it ranks against other types of software development? The developers I work with all earn over $100k.
As I recall, low wages in Poland is the reason that The Witcher 2 cost so little to make ($8 million) compared to other high profile games. Marketing budgets are ludicrously inflated on some blockbuster games, but it's not like you can just risk not doing any marketing.
$81,000 for an educated, skilled technically-oriented employee on the coasts... It's not an obscene amount of money.
I'm now wondering how much the asshole who wrote this article got paid to do it. If it's more than $0, he's getting WAY overpaid.
He gets paid for every click the article gets. Had no one read it, he would have made nothing.
As I recall, low wages in Poland is the reason that The Witcher 2 cost so little to make ($8 million) compared to other high profile games. Marketing budgets are ludicrously inflated on some blockbuster games, but it's not like you can just risk not doing any marketing.
$81,000 for an educated, skilled technically-oriented employee on the coasts... It's not an obscene amount of money.
I just worked on a game that has 4.5 million users.
Youre goddamn right I deserve to be compensated.
Also, most people on the game industry make little money. All these averages I see on magazines and polls are pretty off the mark.
Game developers should be paid all the money in the world. Of all the mediums of entertainment out there, developing/programming a video game is the most difficult.
he isn't 100% wrong.
One of the largest expenses in a project like videogame is labor, and one of the biggest constants in the industry so far is how high labor has grown. growing labor costs of high skilled personnel, concentrated in first world countries with expensive living standards, and well surprise. Shit gets expensive
It's ironic that so many people on GAF criticize the game industry for having high budgets and growing expenses, but namedrop games like the Witcher as being a model for the future.
he isn't 100% wrong.
One of the largest expenses in a project like videogame is labor, and one of the biggest constants in the industry so far is how high labor has grown. growing labor costs of high skilled personnel, concentrated in first world countries with expensive living standards, and well surprise. Shit gets expensive
It's ironic that so many people on GAF criticize the game industry for having high budgets and growing expenses, but namedrop games like the Witcher as being a model for the future.
Most people just don't think when they see 8-10 million for Witcher 3 and go wow that's cheap they fail to account for the fact that's based on polish budgets which are then based on polish wages.
That doesn't suddenly mean Poland is doing a better job than US studios. It just means Poland has a far cheaper cost of living.