Doesn't have to do anything with generational decline and has everything to do with how industry works. At the start of game development, in 80s-90s, there was no internet and no silicon valley boom and so programming jobs were rather limited in scope. There wasn't as much headhunting and salaries were not diverging as drastically.
At this moment it's mirror opposite - there's always need for more programmers and, when it comes to payment, traditional gamedev is least competitive of it all. Even mobile gamedev salaries can be 2x-3x to what a PC coder earns. So it's the dregs that are developing the modern AAA titles - proficient specialists are highly unlikely to find themselves there. Unless they're fanatics but that burns out fast and they soon leave the industry for greener pastures.
This comment is in denial. When AAA hires, they have top-down mandates to diversify. If you think the talent pool for video game dev is bad because low salaries, what happens when you further dilute that pool with gender and race requirements? You end up being forced to hire barely functional (but highly diverse) retards. How many such devs do you need to throw at a AAA production? Thousands, apparently. And the end results are Diablo 4 and Starfield.
Doesn't have to do anything with generational decline and has everything to do with how industry works. At the start of game development, in 80s-90s, there was no internet and no silicon valley boom and so programming jobs were rather limited in scope. There wasn't as much headhunting and salaries were not diverging as drastically.
At this moment it's mirror opposite - there's always need for more programmers and, when it comes to payment, traditional gamedev is least competitive of it all. Even mobile gamedev salaries can be 2x-3x to what a PC coder earns. So it's the dregs that are developing the modern AAA titles - proficient specialists are highly unlikely to find themselves there. Unless they're fanatics but that burns out fast and they soon leave the industry for greener pastures.
This comment is in denial. When AAA hires, they have top-down mandates to diversify. If you think the talent pool for video game dev is bad because low salaries, what happens when you further dilute that pool with gender and race requirements? You end up being forced to hire barely functional (but highly diverse) retards. How many such devs do you need to throw at a AAA production? Thousands, apparently. And the end results are Diablo 4 and Starfield.