Good point, but you are probably a more descriminating player than most. I say this because if a majority of game purchasers had your impression of EA, other game companies would take the lead.
Developers might not like to hear this, but the consolidation of the industry suggests that the main obstacle to profits facing game companies is not creating great games, but marketing, promotion, and distribution.
Developer-lead evaluations of new games might change this. The manufactured hype that exists today is the model that game companies are adopting from music companies. Brittany is more profitable than Yo-Yo-Ma.
Your SO has a coveted job. EA is tkaing over the gaming industry because it is pushing developers harder than they would push themselves. EA knows better than you, how to get good-enough quality code out quickly. Its their job. If you disagree, open up your own development shop and manadate 9-5 hours.
Unionization is probably the fastest way for your job to go to India/China. Professionals do not unionize. If you consider your job anything other than a clock-punching money tree, you should consider what you are saying to your employer by attempting to unionize.
The equilibrium point is when there are not enough good developers willing to work incredible hours for a game. Then either the pay will rise (see investment banking) or the lifestyle will get better (see academia).
If you don't constantly consider the option of leaving your employer, you are not availing yourself of your most powerful tool: quiting.
First of all, Industries have a responsibility to monitor themselves. If you see someone pulling bullshit in your company, your ethical duty is to act up.
Secondly, don't demonize money. It is behind the forces that keep businesses legitimate and tempt them to be corrupt... in other words its merely a placeholder for human ambitions.
And lastly, the reason violent criminals are put away longer than white collar criminals is because the legal system values life far more than money.. Are you disagreeing with that? What's your value per human life?
Skills are a small portion of the issues here.
Police don't hire criminals. Criminals clearly have the skills, but the problem of police departments is not as much finding the criminals, but managing the cops. Thats why you have the incredibly strong culture of anti-criminal behavior amongst police officers. That way, the cops tend to want to seek out criminals and bust them.
Thinking about hackers, the mission of getting one over on the man is inherently different from hating and seeking out the bad guys.
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Good point, but you are probably a more descriminating player than most. I say this because if a majority of game purchasers had your impression of EA, other game companies would take the lead. Developers might not like to hear this, but the consolidation of the industry suggests that the main obstacle to profits facing game companies is not creating great games, but marketing, promotion, and distribution. Developer-lead evaluations of new games might change this. The manufactured hype that exists today is the model that game companies are adopting from music companies. Brittany is more profitable than Yo-Yo-Ma.
Your SO has a coveted job. EA is tkaing over the gaming industry because it is pushing developers harder than they would push themselves. EA knows better than you, how to get good-enough quality code out quickly. Its their job. If you disagree, open up your own development shop and manadate 9-5 hours. Unionization is probably the fastest way for your job to go to India/China. Professionals do not unionize. If you consider your job anything other than a clock-punching money tree, you should consider what you are saying to your employer by attempting to unionize. The equilibrium point is when there are not enough good developers willing to work incredible hours for a game. Then either the pay will rise (see investment banking) or the lifestyle will get better (see academia). If you don't constantly consider the option of leaving your employer, you are not availing yourself of your most powerful tool: quiting.
Painful, yes. Statistically Relevant, no.
First of all, Industries have a responsibility to monitor themselves. If you see someone pulling bullshit in your company, your ethical duty is to act up. Secondly, don't demonize money. It is behind the forces that keep businesses legitimate and tempt them to be corrupt... in other words its merely a placeholder for human ambitions. And lastly, the reason violent criminals are put away longer than white collar criminals is because the legal system values life far more than money.. Are you disagreeing with that? What's your value per human life?
Skills are a small portion of the issues here. Police don't hire criminals. Criminals clearly have the skills, but the problem of police departments is not as much finding the criminals, but managing the cops. Thats why you have the incredibly strong culture of anti-criminal behavior amongst police officers. That way, the cops tend to want to seek out criminals and bust them. Thinking about hackers, the mission of getting one over on the man is inherently different from hating and seeking out the bad guys.