“Institu-what?” -some HR asshole.

I’m amazed, time and time again, at just how incredibly stupid HR decisions can be. It’s like they have no idea what people do and how difficult how that shit is, and then each company has its own idiosyncrasies, in processes, in frameworks, engines, languages, etc. I’m not even in gaming, and I see it every day, with candidates being taken onboard against the teams’ advice, then being unable to do the most simple tasks in their jobs. It’s terrifying, really. It’s like HR have a vague sense that we do stuff with computers and we cost X per annum and that’s about as far as it goes in their little brains…

Same here. I’m lucky that I have some good friends who work in it, but every time there has been something remotely interesting, the difference in salary with boring dev jobs has been just too fucking much :/

Every time I’ve been tempted (I’ve a few mates working for Ubisoft), I look at the salaries and compare to what I make working for banks and, well, I’m a an mercenary kind of guy.

Currency is a promise. It’s a fiction we all agree to be a part of.
The constant argument by game lawyers that digital goods have value and therefore cloning them is theft, should reinforce this idea that, well, if your DLC and your games have value, then surely those virtual coins also have value. And we can precisely calculate that value, too. How can they argue in good faith that digital goods have value, then the opposite is true when they would have to shell out actual money?

Or can banks suddenly do that, too? Can you imagine if banks decide that no, actually, we are closing those branches and since your money was tied to them, you’re out of luck, too bad. But we are opening new ones, don’t worry, come again!

I think customers are fucking idiots for spending any amount thinking they ain’t getting fucked, mind you. But clearly there is some serious fuckery going on. I hope Europe take the lead on that crap, sooner rather than later, since we seem to be tackling lootboxes…