The game industry has been carefully scrutinized by many recently for mistreatment of its workers in every way from personal to professional. A huge part of this has to do with proper compensation, longterm employment, and salaries, with salary complaints aimed at Bobby Kotick.
But not all of these complaints and concerned are just centered on how much executives in the game industry make, far from it. What most programmers and designers are most concerned with is, reasonably, their own salary.
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