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Scopitone

Scopitone

Irvine, CA
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NOV 13, 2004 02:26 PM

ray2k said:


No, it is. Like I said, thousands of people want a job in the industry and many of them are willing to become indentured servants because of it.


Read what I said again. That wasn't my point. Just because people look to get jobs in an industry doing stuff they love doesn't make it right that their employers take full advantage of this. Like i said, it doesn't HAVE to be like this. Yes alot of developers let companies walk all over them but its the COMPANIES doing the walking.



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ray2k said:
It's not about working in the game dev industry. Its about a huge company taking advantage of its employees. The fact that its in the game development industry is meaninglyess.



Of course it isn't right that employers are doing this. My point, and the one you seem to be missing is the people this affects allow it to happen. There are a number of terrible things in this world that "don't have to be like this " but unfortunately we don’t have some all-powerful force of goodness that can fly in and make everything nice.

My point was that people want to work in the game industry. They’ll do anything to get into it. Again, the majority of publishers out there exploit this fact. You wouldn’t find this happening in other “boring” fields unless the people being exploited stuck with the job because they absolutely needed the money to live, weren’t talented enough to get another job, or were dangerously inept.

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