I honestly think the worst part about all this is that they put a blue news highlight in my steam client to let me know that there was something important to read... and then it was just the obvious exclusion of a stupid game. Like, that’s fine Valve, you do that please, but don’t alert me to it like it’s important…

What, did you expect Valve to freely admit that because this one, single game got coverage by news sites, they had to remove it to save face? Pfft.

I also would have accepted

It’s worth mentioning that NGU is developed by just 1 person who is enough of a fan of the genre that they ended up wanting to make their own. Through their success with NGU, they were able to quit their day job and develop it full time. It’s a fantastic success story that kinda makes me appreciate NGU all that much…

I feel like adding Kotaku’s and its editors’ tweets doesn’t count. :P

1] Jobs that overlap in skillset have non-gaming coders/designers/etc getting paid far better than their gaming-industry equivalents.

Huh... this kinda reminds me of an unknown Fatboy Slim song used for the movie Moulin Rouge being the entrance for some comedy duo that I’ve only ever seen on Gaki No Tsukai/Batsu Games (the “no laughing” special.) I always recognize the song but realize nobody should recognize the song.

Tell that to the factory line workers who created unions in the first place. Insulting the personalities of people who’ve been ground down by the system and convinced they have no power to change things isn’t helping.

I never said you weren’t. However:

“You clearly don’t know the industry”

Why does it repeat this same clip seven (yes, I counted) times?

The sad part is... I thought I was replying to it. :( Kinja screwed me, I tells ya!

You’re focusing on the latter part of the sentence but not the former. Don’t separate my words out like that. But since you decided to laser focus on one piece of my sentence, allow me to focus even harder.

Individual action won’t solve systemic problems.

As Polstats notes, “We suck at driving.”

I have to refer you to the reply I made to someone else insisting the same thing. We’re talking about different engineers here.

Most people doing most of the legwork for games are not paid well at all. Any decent engineer I know is someone who knows to steer well clear of the games industry if they want to make money.

Ya’ll making fun of my comment about the meta of the skinner box when the whole point of the battle pass is to convince you to pay money in order to change how the skinner box works. It’s kinda important shit to talk about!

Still need an article about how the drip-feed of drops for leveling slows to a crawl to the point where the meta may as well not exist.

This was written in a way that makes it feel like the person only tangentially understands what’s wrong with the industry. The whole sleepless nights, Red Bull, management pressure story doesn’t really fit the narrative for Activision Blizzard’s layoffs of what seemed to be in divisions that aren’t programmer-specific.