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That's why actors are celebrities spending millions on drugs while game developers constantly question whether they should get a real job

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> game developers constantly question whether they should get a real job

Same model. Most actors stay poor and barely make it. You just only know the most successful ones, which is a tiny minority of the acting pool.

Yeah but B listers can make a very good living, often times with more steady work than A listers since they don’t have to manage their reputation as much. They’re the session musicians, or the AAA dev working on his indie project on the side of film/TV. Still they’re also a minority but if you show up and do your work for enough years it’s an achievable track.

Yet, cultural footprint aside, in economic terms the video game industry is significantly larger than film.

(Sorry, citation needed, but I clearly recall reading this from a reputable source.)

"Gaming is Five Times Bigger Than Movies Now"

https://gameranx.com/updates/id/416500/article/gaming-is-fiv...

Unfortunately a lot of that is ad filled P2W shovelware

Not much different than Hallmark shovelware

Many people only play free phone games. It tracks. I know people on the internet constantly discount it, but mobile is much too big a platform to ignore in discussions like these

I think the market is confusing gambling with gaming. The two markets don't overlap (or not directly, I'm sure there are people who enjoy both). We pretend they do, but the only thing they share is the technical aspects in producing something. Diablo Immortal clearly highlighted this.

It's equivalent to saying that soccer and basketball are the same game because played both with a ball.

"core gamers" (the gamers that play videogames) are actually "videogamers". Mobile gamers are gamblers.

Of course there are also some videogames in the mobile world, so you can find some core gamers playing videogames on mobile

Notch of Minecraft fame is arguably richer than any actor has ever been.

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