dude. i will tell you the real truth. you will not hear this elsewhere.<br><br>if you say that they were spending 500 million dollars for Cyberpunk 2077 development, ask how many from those money were received by quantic lab.<br><br>the payment for a worker there is very low, around 400 eur per month. this, for the entire team consisting of 60 workers, let's take the max, costs 24000 eur per month. let's say that it was a 2 years project for testing at their side (i'm just assuming). this would be around 576000 eur. ok, of course this is just the workers and not gross, you have equipments, rent, management, services, let's say that the fair amount would been about 1 milion eur in 2 years. <br><br>this is around 0.02% from the 500 million dollars, let's say 0.03% cause eur has some favourable parity agains the dollar. :D<br><br>now i'm asking you: would you spend just 0.03% from the budget for one of your critical development departement (yes, i'm wotking in qa) and you are expecting good results?<br><br>and let me tell you, romania is not a 3rd world country. especially not the city where this company is located. a senior qa with automation capabilities jumps over 3000 euro per month in the current year. the people which this kind of companies are hiring,are juniors who want to get experience in the QA field for ramping up and joing web or automotive qa which is a far more well rewarded field.<br><br>and the last thing i'm asking you: do you know that the gaming industry development and qa is one of the hardest as effort? then start questioning why the gaming qas and the gaming developers are so badly payed globally? this happens everywhere if you are comparing the web industry with the gaming industry. the salaries are far more bigger in let's say ecommerce, banking, etc. this drives more and more well prepared and trained people to leave the gaming industry and join the other IT development sectors. ;) and yes, gaming companies still make huge profits.<br><br>tl;dr: i think in the future you should make a video about what are the gaming developers and qas so bad payed in comparison with other it industries. i think the gaming companies are too greedy.