Thought this was an interesting article about gaming employee stress and working conditions. A bit over-hyped, but some interesting info in there. Good luck to all the contract employees!
https://time.com/5603329/e3-video-game-creators-union/
Thought this was an interesting article about gaming employee stress and working conditions. A bit over-hyped, but some interesting info in there. Good luck to all the contract employees!
https://time.com/5603329/e3-video-game-creators-union/
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Seems a little sensationalized. There are shitty companies to work for in every industry, and just about everyone has a "crunch time". For gaming companies it is near and during release of a new game. For accountants it is the end of the fiscal year. I think a lot of this is people not looking at the reality of the industry before they jump in. Easy to do with something like the gaming industry, as the guy said... It was his "dream job".
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Again, this is something someone should look at before joining a company. A lot of games studios do this. They hire on a larger staff when creating a game and cut back after release. Sometimes they have other places to assign people, sometimes they don't. This is the nature of the industry.
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... and it's a problem with that industry. Companies aren't expected to keep people on the payroll indefinitely even in a unionized environment. Unions step in, put laid off workers on the books, and find them some place to go. It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than just being shown the door.
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Nah... I think most of the big companies would just move their dev out of country. Brand new people get dropped. Sucks, but it builds their resume. Get a few years in the industry and you get to be one of the guys that stays. Problem with the first guy's example though, a Union wouldn't have stopped any of that... Because the entire company folded. He also only had 2 years experience.
You do a project, you do well, you get a new job after it is over, but your resume looks a little better.
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Last edited by Parkbandit; 06-18-2019 at 03:00 PM.
Which unions are these? When I was laid off from my only union job the union did exactly jack shit for me. I'm sure they negotiated all of the benefits I received for being laid off and were responsible for us being given a 1 month notice, but when it came to the actual laying off part the union was no where to be found. They sure as heck didn't try to get me another job, my employer offered me a transfer but I wasn't in a position to move half way across the country at that time.
Last edited by Archigeek; 06-18-2019 at 01:34 PM.
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Microsoft is a pretty good example of how odd and shitty the gaming market can be. Everybody wants the chance to work for them because they pay well and because obviously, but they hire out of Digipen across the street, so they have a neverending supply of qualified applicants. They'll typically open and close studios and projects on a whim when one executive or another takes over and wants to divert resources elsewhere. It's not even a black mark on your resume to write "fired by Microsoft" because of how often it happens. I've got a friend who's been a UI artist for 3 different Microsoft Studios over the past 5 years because he's gotten hired on, done a job (big, name brand jobs you'd recognize, not stuff that just got cancelled pre-completion), then the studio is closed and hiring starts anew for another project. No seniority, no job security, fighting against day one graduates for every position.
Unions aren't always a terrible thing. There's a balance to be had, and it's all in favor of the executives in gaming.