third world programmers are mostly retarded, even the "good ones". any game studio that chooses Jar Punjab and Miguel from Brazil over any European country (even the cheap ones) is going to find out really rapidly that it's much cheaper to pay one guy to do it right over a month instead of 10 guys to each fuck it up over a year.

the only reason the outsourcing industry is this large is because most software jobs are copy/paste idiocies to make yet another checkout page on a website, and Rakesh can handle that just fine. any game they lay their hands on goes to shit, though.

Code doesn't have a gender or a race, it works or it doesn't.

If you can describe the code that well (to say objectively that it works or it does not), it is true that anyone can write it. But someone has to write the plan. Someone has to react when plans/hardware change midproject, which they always do.

I genuinely do use junior engineers to write that code. But I don't send it out to fucking India. I want them to tell me when my plan sucks. And I want them to be flexible and smart and to understand what I say. And for that I need Americans and Europeans, basically.

I don't do it much, but you can work with Eastern Europeans. Wages are somewhat lower there. Money goes further. Those costs are still much higher than a 3rd world country. You have to do it carefully, but there are ways to get work done in E. Europe, and save money on it, and it still be good.