Out of Pod Experience

exactly if eve become your job the game will no longer be fun.

Hi everyone,

Just want to ask people to keep it polite please!

I wanted to point out something here, that some of these comments on Glass Door actually appeared on/or around the time that many people were destroying Jita monuments, July last year ...

As some of you have wisely pointed out, there is no validation that it's official or indeed anything but disgruntlement.

I can personally attest that the comment listed in the opening post here, that says 'uploaded yesterday' was the same thing I read last year.

That being the case, we'll keep this open for now, but lets not let this slide into the realm where it does become personal attack, or indeed anything else that the forum rules disallow.

Have fun!

Istan Mahwi wrote:

If you're not working on EVE, then no one really cares what you're doing. It's the religion of the studio and if you don't worship it, then you won't have much in common with a lot of the employees.

Good. I don't want anybody working on my game that doesn't love it.

fixed

Cool site!

So, reading reviews... Cliquish behavior, poor communication with management, under-appreciated line workers, etc. Sounds like every other job in existence ever. Oh well. I hope it's all stemming from last year. Hilmar's FanFest speech and the appointment of Jon Lander imply positive things for the future.

/2 ISK

Did you work for GameStop? I did part time for a while, was my favorite and least favorite job ever...

Loved getting paid to talk with people about games, but GameStop has some messed up policy (what job doesn't); although maybe it has changed, been like 6 years since I worked there. Once I got my reals career didn't need a second job anymore.

I worked for a small video game shop called "Games 2 Go" that did the whole new and used game thing but also specialized in hard to find systems (Neo Geo, 3DO, TurboGrafix 16, Magnavox Odyssey, Philips CD-i, etc) and imports. The job itself was great, probably one of the best jobs I ever had since I got to sit around all day listening to stoner music and playing all these rare import games and stuff my friends didn't even know existed. The bad part was that 95% of the people who came in were looking for the same old crap they could buy at the local department store, and they expected us to somehow carry it for less than those stores would. So between that and the kids who would come in and try to rip off stuff they would have had no way of even using (I remember one kid tried to make off with a Mega Drive system which he wouldn't have even been able to power up let alone find a PAL monitor to play it on) the shop eventually closed.

Then why the hell did you bother posting here? Don't look for threads you have on interest in just to post you don't care. Nothing better to do with your time?

OT: I've read a lot of the things on that site a while ago, seems they just get reuploaded to seem more recent lol.

After reading a lot of those it's clear that most of the issues aside from the obvious poor management is that publishers have far to much say/power over what gets done. I mean sure these developers need to get the funding from somewhere but... at what cost? Lazier development, no new ideas, gaming is getting kind of stale (on consoles anyway)

Whaaaat? It's nothing like that at all. The real problem is finding qualified candidates to fill the positions we have open. The atmosphere is generally fun and upbeat - much more so than other industries that I've worked in.

-Liang

Ed: What you say is true at the mega corps (and as such is true in all industries), but attributing that to the entire games industry is just wrong.