[vsef]

I moved from making AAA games to other parts of the software industry in 2005. It is not "just like any other industry". The working conditions were bad/abusive, very open sexism, lots of young inexperienced employees (like myself at the time) who don't realize what's going on is not the norm elsewhere. I got paid in a class action settlement against one of my employers. I don't get the impression anything has changed.

Leaving games got me: cooler/more interesting work, much better pay, dramatically better work conditions. I never again experienced anything at the level of the unpleasantness of working for a game studio.

[j4yav]

I also worked in the video game industry when I was younger (2000-2010 I think?) and had no idea that all the essentially terrible things that were happening were not really normal. Some companies were definitely worse than others but it was definitely quite bad looking back on it.

Some of the companies have had repercussions because of it now.