[andyjdavis]

Its probably relevant that games, the law, medicine and start ups are all perceived as being quite glamorous by many.

The games industry seems quite similar to the music and fashion industries in some ways. They are all glamour industries that attract a lot of young people with stars in their eyes who will put up with poor conditions and pay that can be as low as zero. All for the chance to "make it".

[yoklov]

This isn't really a good comparison at all. Game developers make around 10-20k less than a typical software engineers salary. That's still far more than a lot of lines of work.

Maybe what you're saying is true if you're talking about self-employed indie devs, but that's not who the article, or your parent post is talking about. Also, very few of the tons of potential game developers go this route. Most just apply to every gamedev shop in their area.

There's also really not a concept of making it big. Without looking any up, can you name 5 game developers?