This isn't a problem just in game development but all of IT. One thing I've realized is that in the modern era the IT worker is being turned into a labor commodity much like your proverbial burger flipper. Quality of code, of individual talent doesn't matter. It's all about delivery on time. Look into the modern software development paradigms and they will show you rather blatantly that they are being modeled after factory work. This is billed as someway to be better for developers and IT people but it is just a methodology to make management more comfortable with replacing people. After all, they're just points on an assembly line. In all honesty, India is a big problem here as they are large suppliers of people as commodities in the IT field. While there are some good and honest ones, there is a flood of people with 20 years of experience in every single thing your company does and uses and they will pass interview questions and then be damned retarded on the job. Sometimes you get people that you didn't interview.
But even without that market flood, you still have a problem with the job positions being devalued due to technologies becoming far more user friendly and far easier for more people to access and develop.
You are in an era where the average developer has no idea how a computer actually works. Some of them barely know how to do anything beyond using their IDE and git and the stackoverflow site. They don't even bother learning and internalizing the languages and APIs they're developing with.
Gabriel Ward
says the code monkey
Connor Jackson
Depends on state laws mostly. In my state if you're hourly waged you're entitled to overtime. If you are salary then you're not... however there may be some other mechanisms that would give you benefit.
Grayson Cook
>Build nice union >Everyone works hard >Company owners make enough money to drive fancy cars, own multiple homes, send kids to private schools and universities >Employees make fair wage and can afford a nice car and home in a decent neighborhood. >Government forces union to take a quota of women and minorities >Neither of these groups are motivated to be construction workers >A few apply >They stay and do jack shit because they know we can't fire them due to needing to make quotas and lack of applicants >Now have to support dead weight on every job site >Government also wants some of the companies to be run by women and minorities >Now incompetence is at all levels.
Luis Edwards
What's truly concerning is that journalists are falling head over heels trying to advocate for less crunch, and are basically acting as white knights for the poor Tiny Tim developers. At the same time, they treat the actual consumer base with disdain and apathy, calling gamers "entitled" or "toxic"
We've been getting fleeced for years over shit like DLC and microtransactions, but the second devs start getting treated like cattle, it's the next great global tragedy.
It isn't an IT problem: it's a corporate problem. There's not a single industry where this isn't the case. Every single company is built around making the board the most money and that means minimum viable product. The only difference is what's minimally viable scales differently per industry.
Blake Johnson
>people being surprised at amerimutt greed and immorality
