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Developers Want Fatter Paychecks
CodeBuster writes "The programmers, artists, and other creative professions that work in the games industry have taken a rather dim view on paying royalties to Hollywood voice-over actors, according to the article 'Coders Want Fatter Paychecks Too' written by Wired News. From the article: 'The video-game industry's geek workforce has something to say to Hollywood actors: Get in line for your share of the industry's profits.'"
Look, I'm sorry, but you are a programmer. Or a tech support guy. Or a project manager. Or a level designer. Whatever it is, you are producing a product. You are not a performer. In careers based on performing for people, the performer is typically the big earner above the director, manager, producer, etc.
In the rest of the business world, the guys who do the grunt work - writing code, creating levels, designing the game box, writing the game's dialogue - make peanuts and the guys who run the company and sit in conferences and board meetings and take porches to work and spend their weekends on yachts get the big bucks.
These primadonnas need to get it through their skull that they're code monkeys. They're just cubicle workers punching away on a keyboard like everyone else in the world - except the product they're creating is more fun than what most others create.
Why should some guy who writes netcode for a videogame be paid any more or differently than some guy who writes the IMAP module for a mailserver or QAs an application server or is the product manager for some sort of enterprise collaboration software? They're doing essentially the same game.
Remember, you ARE NOT A PERFORMER. You ARE NOT AN ARTIST. You ARE NOT PART OF HOLLYWOOD.
YOU are replaceable. There are a million code monkeys and always one willing to work for less than you who won't complain so much. However, there are NOT 10 Jim Careys. There are NOT 10 Vin Diesels. There are NOT 10 Elijah Woods. THEY can not be replaced, except by really poor voice actors.
Makes you respect the deliverymen a little more, knowing that.
Nah, it just means they were so hard up for a job that they took UPS's shit for way longer than anyone with even a little diginity could.
Code should be free. Actors and artists are different. At least that is what RMS says.