The multi-core laptop in the palm of your hand that happens to make phone calls? No one saw that one coming. THAT, well, they saw the end of things approaching. The concept is evil and will be so exploited once you hand them all the keys to the gaming kingdom. Like, I do take some solace in the fact that dev shops and producers alike are pulling titles from Nvidia NOW's catalog. never seek political office, no smart people do, just greedy people who seek power, which is why we are where we are today, and why Google Apple and Samsung fight over who gets to spy on the customer more, for monetary gain. Tech drives our world, but our government officials can't grasp even the slightest technical data we need programmers, scientists, PhDs from all fields of science, etc. Hopefully the real pioneers, as they age and retire, will run for political office and make such predatory exploitation illegal, since our current senators - other than a handful - still get viruses from opening email attachments. Who then turns it into an empire making millions, literally multiple millions of dollars a day, every freaking day, for a handful of these little, nearly identical, dumb 10 meg davlik/xcode games. And some kid (at heart) by himself not a team, writes a silly color-matching flash game, and makes tens of thousands of dollars in micropayments from addicts, in a few months. Get three DLC packs at an incredible discount only available to Season Pass holders. but once Infinite drops, life can go back to normal for a little while.Īnd smartphone gamine takes off. Now imagine, those dozen plus talented people, working day in/day out on the Next Big Thing, making enough money to pay bills and avoid eviction and your kid(s) from starving and living in dad's old van. how many times sleeping at the desk, the 10s of thousands of man-hours? Massive project Thief to massive project BioShock. apparently it's very common in games development. Imagine, you work for a dev shop like Irrational, after splitting off from Looking Glass and literally poaching top developers, gutting one company to make another in your image. Social resistance, vox populi! It's your civil DUTY to steal gr33dl0ck, shut them down put them out of business! :-)
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