[seanalltogether]

The gaming industry ended up being invaded by the media industry, which is notorious for chewing up people and spitting them out. Luckily digital distribution is putting all the bargaining chips back in to the hands of the content creators instead of the content distributors, and hopefully a lot of the absurd conditions will die away.

[sbov]

God yes. I have friends who work in TV. For them, there is no such thing as "crunch time" - just 14+ hour days 7 days a week. And they get paid and treated like shit.

I don't quite understand the glamour of the business. When I hear stories from my friends it just makes me angry that million dollar salaries are subsidized by such shitty working conditions.

[tsotha]

The game industry was always like this. My best friend from high school worked at a game company circa 1990. One year as deadlines approached the company actually rented hotel rooms for the developers for a few weeks so they could code all their waking hours without distractions. Distractions, you know, like family, friends, hobbies, exercise, healthy food...