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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thorin Stoutfoot" data-source="post: 428202" data-attributes="member: 1887">Hm... That would indicate a sea change in the industry since I last surveyed the industry in 1998. At that time, some engineers at Westwood Studios and I exhcanged data, and I was surprised to see the wide disparity between what I was making and what they were making. To make it worse I was getting stock options while the engineers at Westwood weren't. At LucasArts, most of the engineers were paid even worse. (At one point, a large proportion of LucasArts' customer service staff moved to my company just because of pay the pay issue alone)It would be great for engineers at game companies to get paid a living wage for a change. Since I had to read code from Blizzard, Westwood, and id (to get their games to work on a foreign network), it was very clear which companies had good engineers, and which relied on long beta cycles to get their products to market at a reasonable quality.</blockquote>