You are correct, I hate the hours. But I love the paychecks. I enjoy paying cash for sports cars after a bonus. Sure, I can say "No" like Cliffski suggested, but then I'm the guy at the bottom of the pay scale, or the guy who gets let go when the company trims down.
And if there is one thing I have learned it's that your reputation sticks with you in the gaming industry, always. You want 9-5, go to a different area of work, because thats the way it is here.
This is the norm in game development. I doubt any developer out there even blinks an eye at this article, with the exception of George Broussard (at least it puts to rest why Duke is taking so long).
Seriously, I have always worked these hours in the game industry, and every person at every company I know, both independent and publisher owned, work them as well. There is nothing "eye opening" about this article. It's the way it is if you are a game developer. And yeah, all our spouses feel that way, but it's not like you can quit and go elsewhere unless you are willing to change the field you work in.
You can blame warez for that. PC titles are quickly becoming a dead platform. With console development you can make an average game, sell 300-500k and see a very small percentage of warez. With a pc game good luck even selling 300-500k, although you will easily see 100k+ downloads through various warez channels on any decent title.
Well damn, the linux version of here I can't complain anymore. Oh wait, hey id where's the damn MAC port huh?? There's like 27 people waiting for it, chop chop!
I was hoping that this rumor was true, glad to see it. I don't see the MPAA getting too bent out of shape, I mean cable companies already stream movies directly to our tivo boxes...
well in IE it takes over full screen...and if you take 1 second to look at the interface you see the text that says EXIT in the top right. I still find fullscreen takeovers annoying, thank god firefox doesn't allow it.
And I have far too many friends who have been laid off after a project due to sales not panning out as hoped. The games usually however did great in various warez avenues. Most of them have moved to console development, where piracy still exists, but in far far smaller numbers.
Anyone who thinks piracy helps the developer is not a true developer who's livelihood is made or broken by the sales numbers of their game. My money says Mr. Psuedonym works for a publisher...if a game sells poorly they fire the dev team and write off the game as a loss.
I recently picked up the box set to check out the series, and this is great news...I was surprised how good the series was and perplexed as to why such a show was canceled.
I have had nothing but luck with the Toshiba m200. It functions perfectly well as a laptop (in fact I view it as more of a laptop with tablet capabilities). I was a little worried at first that it would deliver on all the hate that seems to surround tablet pc's, but I have been more satisfied than i could of imagined.
And don't listen to all the "I have a friend of a friend on the 2nd floor of our company that said his sister's tablet crashed all the time", these people sound like hardcore pc users talking about mac's.
Also, there is a free update to the OS coming in a few months...much more significant than a SP, it is considered a full upgrade.
I wonder why there are no id software games present in the games list? They always seem to be the bar of online deathmatch type games, odd they would be left out of the "World Cyber Games".
I am sure $2000 is no small sum for a single mother with 2 kids living in an innercity apartment.
RIAA is still feeling the backlash of suing the pants off of Napster instead of collaborating with them to create a new paradigm of legal online music sharing. Imagine if they had been in their current state of being when tape players came out. Or the radio. "They are just sending out all our songs through the air where anyone can get them with a radio box? Sue EVERYBODY!"
The death throes of a bloated corporate entity is a painful thing to watch.
You have the technical ability and cutting edge hacking tools to crack into a major government website and deliver the ultimate statement on the state of affairs that just might be read by millions......and you put "Ohh YeaH BabY...Ur SiTe Has BeeN DeFaceD."
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Shouldn't they be banned anyway? Since playing games in school would interfere with gaining an education?
Maybe if less people would have pirated Vampires they would have actually made enough money to create another title.
And people wonder why all the good games go to the consoles...
Maybe the next Firefly equivalent won't get cancelled mid-season.
You are correct, I hate the hours. But I love the paychecks. I enjoy paying cash for sports cars after a bonus. Sure, I can say "No" like Cliffski suggested, but then I'm the guy at the bottom of the pay scale, or the guy who gets let go when the company trims down.
And if there is one thing I have learned it's that your reputation sticks with you in the gaming industry, always. You want 9-5, go to a different area of work, because thats the way it is here.
This is the norm in game development. I doubt any developer out there even blinks an eye at this article, with the exception of George Broussard (at least it puts to rest why Duke is taking so long).
Seriously, I have always worked these hours in the game industry, and every person at every company I know, both independent and publisher owned, work them as well. There is nothing "eye opening" about this article. It's the way it is if you are a game developer. And yeah, all our spouses feel that way, but it's not like you can quit and go elsewhere unless you are willing to change the field you work in.
Actually Aspyr is only publishing it. The Mac port is being complete by id, and most likely being put together solely by TTimo.
You can blame warez for that. PC titles are quickly becoming a dead platform. With console development you can make an average game, sell 300-500k and see a very small percentage of warez. With a pc game good luck even selling 300-500k, although you will easily see 100k+ downloads through various warez channels on any decent title.
Well damn, the linux version of here I can't complain anymore. Oh wait, hey id where's the damn MAC port huh?? There's like 27 people waiting for it, chop chop!
I was hoping that this rumor was true, glad to see it. I don't see the MPAA getting too bent out of shape, I mean cable companies already stream movies directly to our tivo boxes...
well in IE it takes over full screen...and if you take 1 second to look at the interface you see the text that says EXIT in the top right. I still find fullscreen takeovers annoying, thank god firefox doesn't allow it.
And I have far too many friends who have been laid off after a project due to sales not panning out as hoped. The games usually however did great in various warez avenues. Most of them have moved to console development, where piracy still exists, but in far far smaller numbers.
Anyone who thinks piracy helps the developer is not a true developer who's livelihood is made or broken by the sales numbers of their game. My money says Mr. Psuedonym works for a publisher...if a game sells poorly they fire the dev team and write off the game as a loss.
I recently picked up the box set to check out the series, and this is great news...I was surprised how good the series was and perplexed as to why such a show was canceled.
I have had nothing but luck with the Toshiba m200. It functions perfectly well as a laptop (in fact I view it as more of a laptop with tablet capabilities). I was a little worried at first that it would deliver on all the hate that seems to surround tablet pc's, but I have been more satisfied than i could of imagined.
And don't listen to all the "I have a friend of a friend on the 2nd floor of our company that said his sister's tablet crashed all the time", these people sound like hardcore pc users talking about mac's.
Also, there is a free update to the OS coming in a few months...much more significant than a SP, it is considered a full upgrade.
I wonder why there are no id software games present in the games list? They always seem to be the bar of online deathmatch type games, odd they would be left out of the "World Cyber Games".
I am sure $2000 is no small sum for a single mother with 2 kids living in an innercity apartment.
RIAA is still feeling the backlash of suing the pants off of Napster instead of collaborating with them to create a new paradigm of legal online music sharing. Imagine if they had been in their current state of being when tape players came out. Or the radio. "They are just sending out all our songs through the air where anyone can get them with a radio box? Sue EVERYBODY!"
The death throes of a bloated corporate entity is a painful thing to watch.
This business model has been around, unharrased, for years.
http://www.ige.com/
They do a lot of selling on http://www.playerauctions.com/
"with a large carbon fin strapped to his back"
This is a ricey-car reply waiting to happen
Since it's all being created from/based on their data?
Ahh the sound of a thousand rushing patents...
Speaking of Mars and games and the IPN, look at the top text line of http://www.ua-corp.com , guess the tech support sucks in the future too
This reminds me of the lawsuits robbers file against homeowners who kicked their arse for breaking in.
Is there a cereal box whistle that will get me past the "The page cannot be displayed" message?
So is there any way to moderate the article itself -1 TROLL?
Actually that would be:
without the space in the title
the site had to yank the trial version, since many news agency's were to cheap to actually purchase it.
You have the technical ability and cutting edge hacking tools to crack into a major government website and deliver the ultimate statement on the state of affairs that just might be read by millions... ...and you put "Ohh YeaH BabY...Ur SiTe Has BeeN DeFaceD."