A PayPal founder was a friend of mine. He was an ex game developer. He said emphatically to me: “Get out of games - you’ll never make much there”. Looking back, he was right.
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Replying to @richgel999
This is very relative though. Game programmers earn about more than 70% of the overall population (US), if not 80%. They would make more in non game tech but still, that is good enough to make a nice living.
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Replying to @laurentgiroud
They also work 100 hours a week. Game developers as a whole don't value their time or their health. They externalize both to make slightly more money, but at the end of the day if you look at their actual hourly rate (factoring in crunching) it sucks.
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The endgame for most game developers is leaving the industry and joining one that is healthier and saner. A handful move on to the few good companies that don't normalize crunching and pay well. I'm now telling newcomers to the field to get out as soon as possible.
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