---
title: "The Gaming industry turns out to be a modern slave market"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/2/the-gaming-industry-turns-out-to-be-a-modern-slave-market.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/12/2/the-gaming-industry-turns-out-to-be-a-modern-slave-market.html"
published: "2004-12-02T23:57:00"
updated: "2004-12-02T23:57:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Reading this makes me glad not to be working in the Gaming software industry . Sure, I've done my share of overtime at startups and such, but no, it was never this bad. Even when it was bad it was never like this. Also…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# The Gaming industry turns out to be a modern slave market

By Roy Osherove December 2, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published December 2, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Reading this makes me glad not to be working in the Gaming software industry](http://www.livejournal.com/users/ea_spouse/274.html).

Sure, I've done my share of overtime at startups and such, but no, it was never this bad. Even when it was bad it was never like this.  Also note that there are over 3000 comments on this post.

Thanks to [Anatoly](http://blogs.x2line.com/al/archive/2004/12/02/716.aspx) for the link.

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