It’s like the movie industry, now. They only have a job as long as the game is in production, and all they get is the weekly paycheck.
Toasticus@piefed.social 1 day ago
This whole industry is job security hell. Man, people decades ago dreamed of being somewhere in the industry. I don’t really know now who’d want to be in it knowing how awful job security even is.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
Except they’re not set up to be able to do that like the movie industry is.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
Sounds like a problem for the works right everyone?
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 day ago
When I was a teenager, I really wanted to work in the video game industry. Really glad I don’t. I still want to learn to make video games, but I never want to work for any video game company. Especially any that have been around for say… 20 years and/or publicly traded.
Toasticus@piefed.social 1 day ago
Unfortunately, you’re not the demographic the industry is looking for. What they want now is obedient, but expendable staff who’ll only be on long enough to see a project done. Then you’re discarded. The other pocket of people they’d want is, you know what type.
You’re better of being your own independent video game worker.
ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
Yeah, I went to school for it. Never broke in. Ended up with a much better and wayyyy more stable job.
Couldn’t imagine trying to get in now that every studio is owned by like ~3 companies.