| > the skills required are not compensated at the level you'd expect given the difficulty of the work. There it is! This is the core argument that I feel like most people here are actually making. Well said, I completely agree. I agree that game devs are/feel undervalued and underappreciated by game studios. But I don't think that game dev is inherently more complex than other forms of development or that it requires more creativity. Two different issues. Instead of arguing that game devs are special I'd argue that game devs should be told that there are jobs outside of the games industry with work that's just as interesting, complex, creative, and fulfilling as game development. Jobs where you'll use the same kinds of skills but may get paid much more. You find a lot of miserable game devs who refuse to work in any other industry because non-game dev work is akin to mindlessly producing producing grey, soot covered, widgets in some dystopian factory. If you need to be a game dev, go for it. I hope you get paid what you're worth. But, if you're and if you're miserable doing game dev, you have options outside of game dev. In summary: If you can do game dev you can do other types of dev work. Similarly, if you can do other types of dev work you can do game dev. The question is, whichever side you start on, can cross that divide and still be happy? |