seforin , you seem to have a real downer on outsourcers/freelancers. lots of freelance work is outsourced to production companies this days or smaller quality operations, so imagining that somehow this is all the fault of outsourcing is just plain silly. work has always been outsourced to some degree anyway and speaking as…
how are they forcibly taking stuff seforin?, business is about competition , so perhaps you should blame the managers who use low quality outsource companies. It can be a false economy in the end. 'But' they are not all bad anyway. I find it hard to imagine an entire project being outsourced. your suggesting that they…
we is cool seforin, I must confess I have never heard of entire sections being laid off due to outsourcing to china or whatever. I actually think that it more likely that work will be outsourced to quality companies in the long run, if the chinese or indian companies are really bad, but TBH they will probably at some point…
because the fear of losing your job within 3 months or to some outsourcing junk in india or china might scare a few people to keep it small or keep it indie now days?
you run that risk at ANY job you pick. games or not. not so much outsourcing, but you can lose your job in a week no matter where you go. its part of life
Continued chaos. More and more art being outsourced overseas. Downward pressure on wages, at least on the art side. A few megahits in the industry, and general evolution of games. And oddly enough, maybe a continuing flood of people trying to break into the industry despite over-competition for jobs and possibly lower…
I like the idea in the earlier post... starting a studio house, where you could rent space to do contract work. Become the outsourced help, rather than having your life controlled by one company. I love the idea of running one of these as a business (since I don't do this for a living), but there isn't much of an industry…
China is definitely there already when it comes to the level of artists. Main problem I encountered was communication, time difference, admin overhead, language barrier and different mentality. Those can be serious problems when you require top notch artwork which is up to specs and done in a timely manner. Outsourcing…
Throw this dog a bone anyday for a job, I'll take it, and relocate to it. As i'm already underwater with employment opportunities, unlike many of you i'm sure. I am broke as a joke. Not to mention it came at a point where some of my industry friends, sent me money so I could buy some food. Because local retail and other…
no I dont have a problem with freelancing with individuals //good teams, I have a problem with overseas jobs being taken by people here forcibly. I rather not get into it and make people think im being incompetent or anything in this matter, just my personal experiences have just made me not feel friendly towards this…