With games like Bayonetta 2 and Mario 3d world already on the WiiU before SMM, it makes me sad that people seem to think Maker is the only good game on the console :(.
can't wait until I have time so I can buy and play the crap out of mario maker.
I feel like SAG-AFTRA has made one huge here. Pushing for Royalties that aren't that bad considering, but for the most part the numbers haven't gotten out, so people hear "voice actors want royalties? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA". I admit I did, though seeing the numbers they aren't nearly as bad as I expected.
While they don't literally have to have gamers on their side, it helps more than it hurts if people push back because they want to see their favorite VOs treated better.
On the side of the devs/etc unionizing, that is a tough road when programmers have been pretty resistant to the idea across all subsets of industry for as long as I can recall. Throw in the fact that so many young programmers are willing to throw themselves into the meat grinder because they think it is cool, and while game quality would suffer for loosing the experienced hands the big publishers probably feel like they could get by.
Is games an area I think needs unionization? Yes, because compared to non-game programmers they are treated like garbage. Will it happen anytime soon? I don't see how.
@itwongo: out of curiosity are you subbed to Northernlion on youtube? He did a video... 2+ years ago (had to search youtube to find it, but I knew he'd done one).
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