After decades of regret. I no longer regret NOT going into game design / development.
I never had any regrets about going into game design / development. Gaming industry has been ass for decades and big studios have been built on the exploitation of passion where devs get treated like shit because their passion for working on games keeps them there.
When that became apparent to me along with the understanding that game development is significantly harder than standard software development I had no problems not choosing game development. Ontop of doing harder work I get less pay and I get treated like shit? No thanks, I’d rather have a comfy job that I still find fulfilling and I can take game projects on the side.
Though I’d probably have a different opinion if I had to make a career choice today due to the tools becoming so good you can be a one-man studio (and contracting out work you might not be good at, like art assets or such) making the game you want to make. For example the person I’m really envious about is the Road to Vostok dev who is just one Finnish guy making a pretty huge game.
On the bright side, it’s never been easier for extremely small teams to put out something relatively high quality on the side.
Not sure how to feel about all of this. I loved the first Division game, the winter atmosphere and snow was amazing.
But then Division 2 happened and the charm just fell off for me. Not to mention the continued crashing issues on PC are horrendous. Regret purchasing the Division 2 on PC.
Now hearing they are developing a third Division making me hope for another winter style but worried about the crash issues on PC and them not even fixing the crash issues in the first place.
Now them announcing layoffs isn’t another good development.
Make it first-person and maybe I’d be more interested.
