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I would really like to disagree here,the biggest reason we get bad games is greed,either the devs themselves are greedy or the publishers are,in the later case said publishers force the devs to shove out the product before it is done properly so they can get the money asap.

The lack of talent is simply not the case with most games i`ve seen,if anything talent is something that gaming has a lot of,so many indie devs right now making top-notch games for a low price,true some are copying others in hopes of insta succes *cough*Braid story*cough* but most are doing their own thing and are pretty good at it.

Good and salient points Dan, and I'd add another.
Many developers now find the transient style of employment too much, and the limits by big name Publishing houses too constricting. They therefore opt for Indie and/or mobile game design (where the money is these days).

I think he has a point but he's not stating it well.

A composer of anything should be familiar with the tools of the trade.

A composer of classical music needs to know how to read and write music and how each instrument works and works together. She may not actually PLAY an instrument well enough to play the parts she writes, and she may have assistants score out the parts for each instrument - but she has to know how things work in order to compose.

So a designer who knows nothing about code, art, etc or who lacks history in designing non-computer games (many good designers started by designing board games, pnp games, tabletop games, etc - experience in design) is kind of similar.

Sure, corporate greed is killing gaming, but it's corporate greed that says lets throw tens of millions of dollars into creating garbage to sucker people into buying - who's going to design this...eh, promote the QA/support guy and let him be a designer.

A lot of the better designers in PC gaming history were programmers or people who did some programming and or were otherwise involved in actual production. People who started companies to get their games made. Kind of like the better indies out there today.

"Many developers now find the transient style of employment too much" - got anything to back that up, since I was just reading about this (I'm a developer) and what I was reading says the average developer changes jobs every 3 years by CHOICE. There are a variety of reasons but a lot of it has to do with wanting to work with the latest tech and to work on new projects (creation vs maint and new projects are done with the latest toys).

Interesting Voqar, I did not know you are a developer. Good to hear it from the proverbial horse's mouth.
My information comes from QANTM a leading private Computer College here in Brisbane that specialises in Computer Game Design. It appears, from what they have stated and this is from their graduates, that much like an actor, composer or what-have-you, once the job (or project) is done, their position is made redundant and they must go in search of new work - auditioning at every turn. This is for animators, artists etc.
As Australia is now at the forefront of computer games design (and you check can me on this) Queensland is stepping to the lead. The Computer Game Developer's Conference at The Gold Coast is a must event on any game's designer's calendar, or anyone interested in the progression of videogaming. I'll be going again to the next one - good food as well:)

Are you in games design, or generally an IT developer?

Ok, maybe he is right. But this game looks horrible.

Amen, brother...or sister. I don't impose gender restrictions upon anyone.