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Hideo Kojimi and Mark Cerny are a couple that come to mind but yeah not a whole whole lot of them do.
Edit: damn upon looking them up though I honestly expected both of them to be worth a hubdred or two hundred million but its actually $30 to $50 million which I mean don’t get me wrong no one is upset making money like that but damn I honestly am super surprised it isn’t higher especially the fact that Cerny designed the ps4 and ps5.
Basically any financial expectation you have of any involved field, the game industry will pay half
On other threads programmers were talking and that is basically what they said, they wanted to program the games but they were paid less and when they left they got paid way more.
The games industry is built upon the idea of exploiting the young and talented, and every MBA involved in management should be fucking ashamed. Games are the pinacle of the human persuit of increased leisure time… When we do get to post-scarcity, post-work, its all we’ll do together.
The money is the problem, as is the MBA mills churning out poisonous “leaders” with no grasp of their product, just knowledge of how to squeeze returns.
Everyone makes fun of coding bootcamps, but the MBA mills and babies first economics classes are fucking ruining our societies.
You are speaking my language here. For years I have been saying we have all the wrong people in charge. We prize the worst qualities in people while having contempt for true quality. From business to government to non profits, with a few exceptions.
We need to make our own organizations not run on the profit motive alone, it’s the only answer. Socialism will not come in government, but those ideals can be ingrained in corporations whose motives are not the profit motive alone.
Nice little business you got there, thriving. Would be a shame if private equity bought it now, wouldn’t it.
We need to do something about the fiscalization of fucking everything before we start giving human rights to greenbacks.
We are in a society that has fallen prey to a memetic money religion and wishful infinite returns thinking.