Employees circulate spreadsheet to compare pay, recent raises. Activision CEO gets $40 million, while some staff skip meals
After its latest games didn't meet sales targets, Square Enix is going multiplatform but the company's track record isn't convincing.
Square Enix been multiplatform for decades, a few exclusively-deals doesn't make them any less multiplatform.
Microsoft's Activision subsidiary announced today that it is opening a new game development studio to take advantage of the huge talent pool growing in Poland. It'll be the second Activision studio based in the region, joining Infinity Ward Krakow, although this studio is, in fact, not working on Call of Duty.
Developer Slavic Magic and publisher Hooded Horse announce that their city building sim Manor Lords has sold over two million copies since launch.
Still waiting for its first patch which is worrying. I know it’s been a single man developer but there’s really no excuse for no updates being released since launch. I’ve been part of many single developer releases that are updated daily, sometimes hourly. This’s hasn’t had a single one yet….
"Some producers and engineers at Blizzard can make well over $100,000 a year, but others, such as video game testers and customer-service representatives, are often paid minimum wage or close to it." Yea, that's called supply/demand
CEO gets paid for boosting stockholder wealth. That's his job. He's doing a great job of it.
And people there aren't having any issues not felt in almost every industry in the U.S. Let alone that they at least have full-time jobs rather than working two part-time jobs and having no access to work-provided health care.
This really isn't an issue with the video game industry. It's an issue with California's cost of living, affordable housing, access to affordable healthcare, and generally minimum wages not being able to provide for what people need.
Those at the “bottom” always put in the most labor to create the product that generate the wealth for those at the “top”. The chairs the devs sit in should get paid more than the suits. These practices and systems are not ethically defensible, no matter how badly some of you want them to be.
The game tester doesn’t make as much as the engineer. What a sick, sad world.