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Devs have nothing to do with that decision
they are the ones developing and implementing that decision though.
That decision doesn't come from the devs.
Yes, and they're the ones heeding it.
Dude what's your deal?
You think they're going to strike and refuse? This is their last stand? They throw away their job because they will die on this hill?
nah, i wanted some spine on people.
devs aint gonna starve if they refuse a crappy job for another one.
that applies to many things, not just games btw.
You probably do some things for your job you aren't stoked about, if you have a job.
a crappy job for another one.
The other job will be just as crappy. Decent dev shops are few and far between. We get paid semi-decently to sell our souls, just as people in other jobs don't even get paid properly to do the same.
I don't think you even understand how work actually gets done, let alone how development works.
Yeah I for one would sooner let my child starve to death than deprive you of your fancy pixels
They develop it, sure, but much like the rest of the game, devs have minimal say in what actually goes into the game.
devs are the rare kind of worker who can choose to work elsewhere without much problems.
Somewhere else where it's going to end up the same. The industry is shit with this kind of practice, devs can go wherever they want, sure. Assuming this is true, which I have my doubts on, it doesn't matter if everywhere is doing the same thing.
Most of Big Tech (or Big Anything really) is owned by the same few people through companies like Vanguard. Shitty industry practices come from that crowd, so there's no escaping them. If you get into a neat company, they are bound to get acquired sooner or later. Fuck, most small companies actually start out aiming for an acquisition now.
then open your own fucking studio instead of addicting kids for fucking money??? stop coding and do better shit for humanity?
Big moving goalposts there. Maybe direct some of that vitriol at the execs, the ones who are actually not doing shit for humanity.
The goalpost is still not having stuff like this just because some asshoIe somewhere wants more money.
And nothing will actually change if workers keep sucking it up and doing the unethical garbage they are told to do. If complaining to them did anything, this wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
Workers need to eat from every industry. The issue is almost never with them. Let me ask you this, do you have the same level of hate towards the cashiers at Walmart? Or the waiters at the restaurants you go to? No, probably not, so why this unique level of anger towards devs?
I dont have specific hate for any of those professions you mentioned. Thats including developers.
I do think some of these workers (namely software devs, but many others too) have the power to stand up and go elsewhere at the very least.
I don't think most developers working for a big studio in a first world country are that worried about food though.
So it's because they have a better paying job? Because they earn better than the cashiers and thus "don't have to worry" about food, so they can do what they want? Software devs are still pretty trash paid, compared again, to the execs. They have a bit more wiggle room than a service industry worker, sure, but by no means "fuck you" money, except the one-in-a-million. They're working class just like you and me and all the service industry people. Aim your anger at the dudes in fancy suits and more 0s in their bank account than anyone should reasonably have.