Are you alright?
No. Anyone with their head not buried in their own ass in the USA right now is not alright. We haven’t been alright for a while now, and there’s a good chance that we’re gonna have it even worse in the near future.
Some of us cope with fatalism. Some of us cope with humor. Snapz copes with anger, it seems.
Except one of the best assets of a game company is people who know how to make a good game. Retaining their talent is worth the extra pay. Treating veteran game makers like replaceable cogs is how you get the current AAA game industry, with nothing but overpriced lukewarm soul-dead rehashes of prior games that are full of bugs and devoid of merit.
The big corps seem to think that their talent is all in their upper management, and that’s why the industry sucks donkey balls these days.