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Devs are always free to go indie and make it big for themselves. But it's a LOT harder than it sounds. So your point is?

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You seem to be making a universal argument that does not engage with the subject and justifies any kind of abusive employment plactices

I think the point is just that profits do not end up going to the people doing the majority of the work.

People doing the majority of the work would not be able to be paid to work for 2 - 3 years non stop on a project if nobody above them had sufficient funds in the first place. What do you expect?

The issue is lowish wage with unhealthy workloads combined with the fact that the people doing the least amount of work get extremely high rewards.

It just shows that the aristocracy is alive and doing well even in this modern world. Unsurprising to anyone that actually paid attention but there are a lot of developers who never realized that they're peasants, still.

there are industries where we can get a decent wage as software developers however, so life is fine for most of us.

> The issue is lowish wage

Lowish wage for game developers? I beg your pardon?

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