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"Dark Basic" <dark...@cox.net> wrote in message 
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> "Bill" <mrspamnobillo@nospam.bom> wrote in message
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>> Just more reasons not to by Anything from EA
>>
>> http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/
>>
>> http://www.igda.org/qol/open_letter.php
>
> I work in IT, I get a bit over six figures to write Java code, and I work 
> a
> normal 40 hour week.  Nearly all of my peers are in the same situation. 
> We
> are always hiring new people and my firm has thousands of job postings 
> that
> go largely unanswered.  Is the work as excitement as "game development".
> Honestly, no.  But why would someone subject himself to 85 hour work weeks
> and asshole management when the only reward at the end is a pink slip? 
> The
> obvious recourse is to quit and work on modestly less interesting business
> software until the game shops get desperate and start offering normal work
> hours and better management.
>
> People need to abandon this dream of being a "game dev" and wake up to the
> reality that the industry is not interesting enough to warrant the hassle
> and frankly most of the shipping games are 95% script code (i.e.
> uninteresting "kiddie" work) layered on top of a licensed engine (i.e.
> Carmack does the interesting stuff, you don't).  Unless those firms shape
> up, the programmers should walk and get less interesting but ultimately 
> more
> fulfilling (from a "life" perspective) jobs writing financial or other
> business SW.
>

I optimize assembler and count cycles all day long...now that's boring :)
(not really)