Why aren't you working in a video game industry? You can have lazy bags, pinballs and free pizzas in your office!

Why aren't you working in a video game industry? You can have lazy bags, pinballs and free pizzas in your office!

I want to keep my brain and the remnant of my self-love and integrity.

I'm white.

They get these things because most of the time they work hard on games. (Really depends what studio) During the breaks they're allowed, they should have a good time and good food.

I'm a straight white male. There's no place for me in the industry.

>women
no wonder

>being a wageslave

>lazy bags
You mean the women?

>pizza
>not demanding your producer goes out their way to get a cheeky Nandos for the team else your all walking out since you dont get paid overtime

But they don't make games, they just sell virtual spaceships

>still no console version for SQ 42 announced

faggots

Does somebody have the picture of the "noms" corner from the no man's sky development team?

Alright that was pretty good

Pizza's cheaper than paying for overtime.

Girl on right shouldn't be eating pizza. She is leaving the thicc safe zone

>posture-wrecking seating
>antiquated game
>junk food

wow, those 6 years of computer science were totally worth it!

>You can have lazy bags, pinballs and free pizzas in your office!
And in exchange you'll only have to work 70 hours a week!

yeah, and you have to put up with soul crushing crunches because your managers are fucking braindead
nah, fuck IT in general, cuckiest jobs imaginable

crunch

They get those things because the company never wants them to leave work.

EA has gyms and tennis courts and shit in their buildings. Their ideal situation is that you sleep under your desk during crunch time so that you're not dividing your attention between home and work.

Now get back to making more $10,000 ships.

>Game not even close to finishing
>Already crunching

Great management there, Chris.

You know nothing of the crunch!

>tfw not working for a game company but still having those benefits (minus pizza)
>tfw loving the fuck out of my work

Do you have your own private office (as in four walls, a ceiling, and a door, or do you work in an open landscape? If it's the latter, you are a serf.

>Have to sacrifice weekend
>unpaid hours
>all they give you is shitty pizza for lunch and no dinner
Yea bro, sure is fun to work in the game industry!

sadly I have to live in Austria, land of NOVIDYA.
well, there are some conventions and lectures occasionally but it's not exactly developer paradise. plus, I'm not skilled to program anyway.

I used to.. Switched to corporate software development because of the following reasons:
Better project management, meaning I don't have to spend too long at office and can work 8 hours a day, because everything is actually done with achievable schedules..

Far better salaries for easier jobs

Still get all the same benefits and more than working on games development.

>mfw when we have lazy bags, our own beer tap, as much free lemonade/juice/coffee/tea you can drink, we have parties with free alcohol at office every weekend, and the co-workers are awesome.

>as much free lemonade/juice/coffee/tea you can drink
That's actually such a bad idea. That stuff will kill you. I'd totally provide as much free water as employees want to drink, though

>and the co-workers are awesome.

This is the only part that I doubt. I know the type, and they're not fun to hang out with. It's the reason I switched from CE to IE.

>ever needing to crunch.

It is always bad project management whenever crunches happen. It has proven that crunch is more expensive and less efficient as when you pass certain amount of hours per day you become way less efficient.

You should always leave plenty of extra time for finetuning and fixing things at the end of a project, while at the same time avoiding feature creep.

Now there's a reference I did not expect to see on Sup Forums

>Western developers
>Working hard past mid 2000's

Nah, that's why western games have hollywood budgets, they need 100 people to do what 10 japs would do in the same time with half the salary

>co-workers are awesome.
>awesome.
I wish people like you would stop devaluing words. People working regular jobs for pay are in no way awesome at all.

>having to work through your weekend
>your Jewish bosses stopped by in between golfing sessions to bring pizza
>Oy vey goyim you're so lucky to be working on what you love

I'm so glad kept video games a hobby and pursued a real job.

>only two women on the team


um excuse me, it is 2017.. i hope you people don't plan on buying something that is made by such misogynist assholes.

>Finetuning and fixing in the same sentence

Willing to bet the only crunch going on is QA to try and figure out what isn't working exactly so the developers can actually get it fixed and deliver for once, just so non-QA testers can get it. Release is "finished" but there's weeks of closed testing still scheduled so go figure.

...

Well we have that as well. Also the company provides us 2000$ for exercise per employee if one wants to do something healthy. Also pays for all our medical care and dental care, so there's that.

With awesome mean that I have gained so many true friends there that I hardly can believe it. We're all nerds so we can discuss games and nerdy stuff, and they also know how to party. For example I spend this whole weekend with co-workers at a music festival dancing, drinking, talking shit and having fun in in general.

>tfw only the second part of that quite is true for me

never ever will this game be released

I have a friend who works for one of those big start-up companies whose commercials you hear all the time in podcasts. He gets paid six figures and was able to pay off all of his student loans within two years, along with all of the perks he gets at the office like free lunches and video game breaks.

It's heaven for about a year, but then he started digging into the shitty things the company would do to trick customers into paying more money (making the UI deliberately hard to use if you want to cancel your account, etc). It gets pretty demoralizing pretty quickly if you've ever stayed at a major job for longer than a few years, especially if you also hate the shitty underhanded business practices that video game companies follow (bloated microtransactions, false advertising, etc). He's getting about ready to jump ship and maybe work as a contractor instead.

It's not all sunshines and rainbows.

>working all weekend for a pizza

>With awesome mean that I have gained so many true friends there that I hardly can believe it. We're all nerds so we can discuss games and nerdy stuff, and they also know how to party. For example I spend this whole weekend with co-workers at a music festival dancing, drinking, talking shit and having fun in in general.
That's cool, but that's still not awesome in any way. That's just a normal, positive aspect of life.

It's still wrong mentality to crunch at all. In agile projects you should use agile testing, which means the testing is ongoing and the quality is baked into the project.

This would mean you have no need to crunch, can release in time while working normal work hours.

Too bad it isn't realistic (outside of like a lucky 0,000002%) to make the jump from "In college for a diploma" or "In university for a degree" all the way up to "Upper management" or "Shareholder/owner".
NEET being above anything must be a joke. Self employed / freelancer has too many risks to be viable for most people.

So like 99% of the population will end up wagecucks.

Why in the hell do you assume they're not getting paid?

>I have gained so many true friends there
Please don't be naive and delude yourself. Only a guy who would take a bullet for you is someone you can call that.

>company would do to trick customers into paying more money (making the UI deliberately hard to use if you want to cancel your account, etc).

Ye this is pretty common practise. Almost all companies do that because the main purpose of a company is to make as much money as possible.

>eat the pizza
>get fired for not being at my desk 24/7

>Why in the hell do you assume they're not getting paid?
Haha, wouldn't you like to know...

...

>eat the wrong pizza
>get fired
It was actually a test to see who had shitty taste in pizza that didn't match the boss' taste. I wish I had my own big company. I'd do fun shit like this if I could get away with it

Either be clear and tell us what the fuck you mean, or shut the fuck up.

I do, and have been since 2011. Only god laid off once which is nice.
first annoying thing is working with grown men that aren't capable of cleaning up after themselves in the bathroom. At my last studio the owner of the building had to send monthly emails about basic hygiene.
these anons is on the money, shitty management causes so many issues.

Wow, I wish I had your job! Spending weekends getting drunk with colleagues at the office sounds like my type of gig!

xD

>widdle baby wants to be spoonfed

You probably could get away with it, but your company would never survive with such blatant display of incometence on management level, if you get my hint.

Because those smiles and what seems to be pampering there's absolute hell.
I work in a similar sector and crap like those are absolute honeypots, actually not even honeypots since the companies actually have no problem telling you they're doing that just because they want you to never leave the office.

>fun shit
to you sure, but your employees would slowly start to hate that shit though.

Well, I consider them awesome.

>Only a guy who would take a bullet for you is someone you can call that.

That just sounds like something you tell for yourself to keep people from getting close to you. Self preservation is individuals most basic instinct. If someone doesn't want to die for me it isn't because he or she doesn't care for me. It's just normal.

No one is forced to get drunk, we also have plenty of non-drinkers. Just an fun option to have.

I'm sure there are so many people in this thread who will take you seriously after this.

Post YFW you're a NEET and see other wagecucks wasting their life working most of their awake time.

>first annoying thing is working with grown men that aren't capable of cleaning up after themselves in the bathroom. At my last studio the owner of the building had to send monthly emails about basic hygiene.
user that's just something true for ALL jobs, from restaurants to law firms the bathroom will always be shit.

It depends on the strategy your company has adopted, which essentially will stem from its culture. Not all companies are like that, but most of them do tend to get a little psychotic if you don't keep an eye on them.

>That just sounds like something you tell for yourself to keep people from getting close to you. Self preservation is individuals most basic instinct. If someone doesn't want to die for me it isn't because he or she doesn't care for me. It's just normal.

Ask me how I know that you don't have any true friends.

>tfw a "wagecuck"
>can actually afford to do shit outside of my home
>literally just got back from a trip to Amsterdam and Iceland

Yeah so bad having more than the absolute minimal amount of money I need to survive and just playing vidya day in day out.

What the hell is a crunch ?

>mfw
I've realized this life only ends in suicide

I still get decent amount of money from my NEET bux, just a few years ago I went to Japan for 3 weeks.
But yeah, keep saying that NEET's don't have any money to spend so you can feel better about wasting your life being a slave.

Must be great being hopelessly poor, living with your parents, not living up to parents expectations and dreams, dealing with depression, and suddenly realising what a shit and hopeless situation you're in when you hit 30 and realise there's a 10 year gap on your resume and you're unemployable.

I realise NEETs get some money, but I will still always have more than you.

>50 hour+ work weeks
>12 hour days 6 days a week for a month
>underpaid for their field
Why the fuck would anyone work for a studio

Sure, I believe you that NEET bux affords you 3 weeks to Japan.You only wish you could do that if you had money to spend but you can't because you are a NEET.

There are 11 people and only 8 boxes of pizza, how exactly is this supposed to feed all of them

It's exploitative alienating work. Even compared to similar industries where the race to the bottom mentality has been amplified by getting someone like Trump in power.

It's fucking boring being a NEET. It was fine for the first year or two then I just got sick of it.
neet life is over rated as fuck

Not everybody needs 1 full pizza for lunch you fat fuck.

Nothing better than hanging out with work pals at the office on weekends!

lmaoing at your implications
I got myself labeled 100% disabled and now collect monthly from the govt in addition to food stamps and have my own place

Post your fat chin so I can judge you

But user I live in my own apartment and receive plenty of money to have each month, but hey if it makes you feel a lot better I guess I actually don't.

I would take having actually freedoom and be able to spent my time as I wish over having lots of money any time of my life.

From your parents?

NEET bux, here in the EU most countries actually have decent social security and you can easily make a living from it.
Makes me feel a bit bad about Americans

I'm a NEET and regret it so much. All my friends have great jobs and are getting married. My parents are starting to hate me and want to throw me out. I can only afford tesco value food too. I'm horribly depressed and have erectile dysfunction from that too so I can't even fap to loli anymore.

Please don't fall for the NEET meme, they're all just pretending their lives are great so they can drag you down to their level.

When I was NEET i only got like £240 a month and had to keep lying to my work coach every two weeks that I was doing 35 hr a week of job search.

It was shit money and sucked ass. I don't know how you can get more than that though? Disability?

>That fat girl
>Thicc

>trump
I feel since he got elected any pretence of upper management giving a fuck about employees has been thrown out the window. Longer hours, less pay and an atmosphere where working for someone indebts you to them instead of vice versa. It's terrifying because it feels like something major is coming down the pipeline that they know about but we don't.

I work in the games media industry. Do video production for IGN.

All the shitty stories of crunch hours, shitty management and the chance that you'd be laid if you don't ship a specific number of copies makes me not wanna be in that industry

I see so many developers just looking too tired and dead in interviews and I've seen some here say they just take it easy.

Just apply for social security and you will get a lot more money. Of course it all depends on where you live.

Much like animation (from what I've heard, personally worked in games for a few years), I only recommended it if you're really, REALLY passionate about it.
You will get shafted, a lot of the creative control will be out of your hands, a lot of shitty people will make shitty decisions on your behalf... but that doesn't mean you can try your best at what is available to you.
It was gruelling, overtime the majority of the time, crunch, etc... but at the end of the day you just wanna see what you put your hard work into come to fruition, and deliver and end product that you know will satisfy the end customer.
I left shortly after the my first and only big project because a lot of my co-workers either left, or were laid off. It sucked, drained my morale, and I wasn't sure if I would be able to go through with it again with new, unknown people.

>having actually freedoom

Apart from the horrible typos, I don't consider being stuck at home with only media and depression to entertain you true freedom. I mean I work a casual job anyway so yeah I'm generally home and free to vidya 2-3 days a week, work breaks up the monotony another 2-3 days, then the weekends I have money to actually go out and do shit with friends (generally tabletop games before you try to accuse me of being a normie), and THEN I still have money to travel and shit. Oh yeah, my job really ties me down...

pinballs are fucking boring though

Ask me how I know you have no friends at all.

I look forward to your inevitable suicide.

>Godtier: Freelancer
kek

Are those motherfuckers even working on the game? Will we ever see this paper plan of game in our lifetime?

Platinum Games recruitment video actually showed people sleeping at their desks. Perhaps intentional, perhaps not. CDPR had an advertisement emphasizing expectance of extreme social alienation through overwork as a net positive for future employees.

>generally tabletop games before you try to accuse me of being a normie
It's always funny how wageslaves and normalfags have to keep defending being a slave so fanatically.
>I-I spend 70% of my wake time working for my boss, b-but it's worth it because then I can go and drink with my buds when I'm free for one day

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