CD Projekt Red has been subject to a cyber attack and ransom demand
Reading the replies there tells me I did the right thing when I decided against a career in game development over a decade ago.<p>It looks like a constant war between developers and gamers now. Developers are investing a lot of time into making their games literally addictive in the worst way possible, and not even remotely by making it fun - it&#x27;s all about overpriced DLC, gambling and weird reward systems. Which has ruined mobile gaming and is now making its way into console and PC gaming. As an intern I attended a company-wide meeting where the CEO proclaimed that game quality didn&#x27;t matter and making money is the sole focus. On the other side of the war, a very vocal subset of the gamers is treating gaming as the only purpose their lives have, and will viciously attack developers personally with death threats and doxxing, or review-bomb even unrelated games into oblivion if the game publisher did something wrong. Which will hardly affect the giants at all (what will you do, <i>not</i> buy the next game from a popular series?), but can crush indie developers. Not to mention the whole work culture that expects any game developer to work 80h per week for less pay because you &quot;love gaming&quot;.<p>CDPR devs must be close to a nervous breakdown by now. Crunching for months&#x2F;years despite their bosses promising it won&#x27;t happen, seeing their game released too early and then ripped apart by critics and fans, and finally getting their personal data leaked.