Actually children are hugely influenced by things like what they see on TV. Advertising has a far greater impact on children than it does on adults. There 's lots of good research into this topic: r n r nhttp://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/118/6/2563.full r n r nI know it 's nice to think that ...
I think the pay is a huge factor. Unless you 're very young and have no obligations, QA pay isn 't enough to live on. Certainly not enough to live on long enough to plan for it to be a career.
While it 's not quite the same thing, this reminded me of this article on Mansa Musa in the Mirror. The text on the image says Artist 's impression of Mansa Musa but it 's pretty clear that they just Google image searched his name and grabbed the first picture ...
Publishers only fund what sells. r n r nIf publishers could predict what would sell well I would expect revenues in the console space to be growing, not declining.
You 're right, my bad, I 'm sure the women were there and dressed as they were because the organizers thought that attendees were dance aficionados. And people who feel that it 's inappropriate, even those who have no religious beliefs at all, are actually secret religious zealots. And a ...
I don 't think it 's sad. Money might buy flashier graphics and licensed soundtracks, but it can 't buy good game design. If anything I 'm glad that we 're seeing smaller studios get recognition and good sales for the great work that they 're doing.
Updating games is also fairly straightforward. If they find an issue they need to fix, they can. r n r nDoes this mean that there 's no expensive re-certification process for providing bug fixes like there is on XBLA
Speaking only from my limited personal experience, the working conditions I 've experienced writing code outside the gaming industry are definitely much better. But I 'm also in a union, which tends to help in that respect.
