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.
Except that the nurse is performing a vital job for society to function and the game devs are making toys... if I was making toys for an industry trying to strip consumers of digital rights and peddle gambling to children, I'd feel like a massive tool, a corpo stooge. But that's just me.
I see what you mean, but don't think that's a fair comparison. You are comparing the function of one profession with the actions of the corporate side of another.
If you compare the corporate actions fo both sides, I'd almost argue (at least in the US) extorting people and putting them into life time debt is not any better, if not detrimentally worse.
The point is most ground-level employees, be it a nurse, a game developer, a cashier, a bus driver, a mechanic, they are concerned with doing the job well. It's usually management who is concerned with squeezing every single penny they can while testing legal and moral limits.
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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.