Re:Bye bye to the jobs (Score 1)

Its like usual, tech people here thinking you can easily find artists but not quality programmers in places like india and asia etc.. thats bullcrap! I think you can find both in these places, especially programmers. India has loads of programmers just waiting for EA to exploit them, but in terms of the way they get exploited there, EA would be heaven for many workers there if they treated them the same as people are treated in north america. With the base code for elements like UI and Physics , and the rendering engine provided by software like renderware, I would say programmers are much easier to replace these days and are more threatened than ever. The artistic side of things is different however. There is no make world button, and now with new consoles and technology such as the ps3 and xbox2, its all about the quality of the ART, that's what will be the difference in the new games coming up. So i don't think some kid in india with some photoshop skills is going to cut it, it's going to take the experience of artists from hollywood and new generation of techy and quality artists that don't exist in asia and india as much as they do in north america. This is why effects for films are only created in north america, if they could do it, they would have done it by now don't u think? Lets see how they go, and believe me from experience. I have worked at a few game companies and we have outsourced work to vietnam, and malaysia and the quality of art is terrible. The skills are just not up to scratch, even by going over there to instruct them doesn't help. Gaming companies are already trying to outsource to asia, but when the results are so bad, they are not investing much time into it. This is why india and asia aern't creating the next generation of games, and won't for a long time. In summary, don't be so naive and think that artists can be replaced by people in asia and programmers can't. Both can be replaced but both won't be quality. In my experience now, the next generation of console with xbox2 and ps3 is more demanding than ever in the quality of artists level of work, so i don't see it being outsourced for a very long time.