• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If you wanted to eat, you wouldn’t leverage your $40k college degree for a $30k code monkey job at one of EA’s digital sweatshops.

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      I legitimately think they just mean publishers and board shareholders. Most (read most, there are also plenty of devs with removed level hot takes on twitter about their constituents, and their clear jealousy of a better product) devs hate the features they have to implement.

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      This isn’t about somebody “trying to eat”. Devs are being paid by the publishers either way (until they get fired of course). Monetisation and “games as a live service” are implemented to increase profit for shareholders. Gamepublishing is already the largest entertainment industry, so this is just about adding more profits to already extreme profits.