Procrastinato on 04 December 2009
| Kantor said: If a developer needs to cut costs, they can cut salaries without packing up and moving halfway across the country. |
You're kind of thinking of developers as robots who will put up with that kind of treatment, with this statement.
There is fierce, fierce demand for experienced devs in the games industry. It has a high burnout rate, and those able to weather the taxing workload long enough to become senior, experienced devs are not folks you can cut the salary on.
Likewise, newbie developers, while they have lots of energy, struggle so much with the details of game development (without guidance from experienced devs), that hiring them alone isn't really a valid option, either.
