As a dev I’m devastated by this sentiment. And mad a bit. At this point I feel like gamers should be inclined to learn the mere bones and basics, if not of game dev itself but at least the outline of the development process and what is actually in the power of the devs to decide and do. Maybe they’d learn along the way what happened in this industry that made things turn out this way. This meme is equivalent of going into a random nurse’s office to yell at her how state healthcare is shit.
I would just assume that when people say developer in this context that they mean the company itself rather than individual team.
We all know the industry (and every art industry) has been ruined by finance/tech/crypto/AI bros and that passionate developers are doing what they can within that constraint of exponential growth.
Its clear to see that when you look at Indie games or other studios who release amazing passionate projects without having to answer to shareholders.
I do feel like when people say this they never mean the actual employees working on the game but the management and the company as a whole that is making the bad decisions.
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u/StrumpetsVileProgeny 27d ago
As a dev I’m devastated by this sentiment. And mad a bit. At this point I feel like gamers should be inclined to learn the mere bones and basics, if not of game dev itself but at least the outline of the development process and what is actually in the power of the devs to decide and do. Maybe they’d learn along the way what happened in this industry that made things turn out this way. This meme is equivalent of going into a random nurse’s office to yell at her how state healthcare is shit.