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Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else (aftermath.site)
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[โ€“] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Guy I know worked for a pretty big video game studio or two. (You've definitely heard of some games he worked on). Then he realized it sucked. Took a job in FinTech, made like double the money for half the work.

[โ€“] EatATaco@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

When I was leaving college a quarter of a century ago I briefly considered going into game dev...even back then everyone said it was low paid and gruelling work, so I passed.

It's shocking that people still go into it.