Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else - Aftermath

From line cooks to bike repairs, people who used to be video game developers are being forced to try something new

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I want a technology and information workers union now.
- We needed one fifteen years ago, but better late than never.
Almost like shitty and unsustainable business practices have consequences and those are starting to show now. Who would have thought...
Good for them.

Hope companies start learning they can't treat people like that and keep people in the field, instead they'll go out to one.
I got out (barely) before the carnage started in earnest.

I'm an industrial mechanic now.

I miss a lot of things about game dev, but the industry as it existed even in 2020 when I left was not where I wanted to be.