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03/13/09
This is news to me! i can understand Montreal (in Canada) being a growing game development community but TEXAS?
Montreal has one of the largest game development communities in the world and these guys are talking about TEXAS? We have EA Montreal and Ubisoft! TEXAS has.............oh ya Hi-Rez Studios...ok! lol!
03/13/09
As most everyone else here has already pointed, Texas has always had a strong development community. I'm mostly just responding to remind you that Hi-Rez is based in Georgia, not Texas.
03/01/09
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02/28/09
99% of the people who make six figures in the US and Canada make far too much money for what they do. That is the nature of the game - the hardest workers get paid the least.
02/28/09
03/01/09
The ESA is the group filing the lawsuits to get stupid game laws overturned.
03/01/09
But at the same time, with the organization struggling financially, giving away compensations like this seems outlandish. The Wall Street types like to insist that since the "bad things" happened before they got there, CEOs deserve their compensation.
But that's such an insipid argument. The boat is sinking. It doesn't matter who caused it, you can't argue this fact. So, as someone "on notice" of such problems, taking such a large cut for yourself seems irresponsible. You could have taken that pay and invested it back in the company to keep it afloat. Use it to lower membership dues, apply it to future lobbying efforts, help to return E3 to its original grandeur.
All I'm saying is, when you have to hike your fees to continue existing, maybe taking a $800,000 paycheck isn't the most responsible or moral thing to do.
03/02/09
No, I know plenty. They are always busy, but they would crumple if they had to work one day on a factory line. I've been on both sides of grunt work and management, and believe me, the hardest workers are the dudes busting their ass just to eat.
02/28/09
02/28/09
This, my friend, wins the humor award for this article. Everyone else, give up. +1
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