Alanok wrote:It wasn't so bad for me, I had just been made redundant from my job as a Product Designer and was looking for a stopgap. Nearly 6 years later and i'm still here

That's a lengthy stopgap! I'm assuming you are still enjoying it so fair play mate. Can you say which dev house you're working at/for? And which games you're currently involved with?

(Thought I might as well try my luck, although I expect "no comment" to be the answer!)
Bloody pirates :bad-words:
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Indeed - still annoys me to hell even though I don't work in the industry anymore. A game I worked on with a previous studio got released and sold only around 7,500 units in the first month... yet was downloaded from torrent sites 75,000+ times in the same time period. When my builders/architects(*) have finished building my new place, which they've been working on for the last 18 months and for 16+ hours everyday including weekends, I'm not going to pay them. I see it as a freebie.
(*) - I've not really got a team building a new pad; it's just a bad analogy I like to make - amounts to the same thing really.
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