We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.
I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.
There is a bit of arrogance with 'Hollywood' types that doesn't sit well with game developers.
Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.
For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
You can't really have like high end designers for everything.
Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space.
The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.