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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinGPyHaqBFHLD3fU9cJda3kARavch9HqsG0f8Ol_o1evRNOrdcP7aOM6wvQZI3Zju9NMrcf8f9ABvnmrYgAZuiUq0kJ3VH3qCCsgRdUDsWY_nHPHEUBZjvnX5c0ukIgjFf-5Ce6dQ7xVA/s2048/Modding.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="349" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinGPyHaqBFHLD3fU9cJda3kARavch9HqsG0f8Ol_o1evRNOrdcP7aOM6wvQZI3Zju9NMrcf8f9ABvnmrYgAZuiUq0kJ3VH3qCCsgRdUDsWY_nHPHEUBZjvnX5c0ukIgjFf-5Ce6dQ7xVA/w526-h349/Modding.jpg" width="526" /></a></div> Reality
check - The gaming industry’s exploitation provides a glimpse of how many of us
may be working in years to come. Oops! Not yet, modding comes to save us from
that gaming Industries’ apocalypse.

For us to
fully understand what’s really going on behind the scene of your beloved online
games, we need to debunk the anomalies & exploitations in the gaming
industries.<o:p></o:p>

If you
think the video gaming industry isn’t a big deal, then you're highly mistaken.
 According to Statista (A German online portal for statistics), the video
gaming industry is to surpass 138 billion USD by 2021. Indeed, the industry is
a big deal. Globally, yearly sales rival or surpass those of Hollywood.<o:p></o:p>

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONTs0zZhh7X6TRHdstT-mZO1UO6myP4HjKKuFEk-hqYAJH_92m6Vt2R_KSRkxWk-HoLrSXmKVJJqPoRIPttVJDM3SqK1Q1RByoqXiPjsxIsYbO_f9_8H1TxKI7SFOe9lM6INOmN2PvTg/s737/screen.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="737" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjONTs0zZhh7X6TRHdstT-mZO1UO6myP4HjKKuFEk-hqYAJH_92m6Vt2R_KSRkxWk-HoLrSXmKVJJqPoRIPttVJDM3SqK1Q1RByoqXiPjsxIsYbO_f9_8H1TxKI7SFOe9lM6INOmN2PvTg/w542-h337/screen.png" width="542" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Figure 1: Screenshot from Statista.com</td></tr></tbody></table> Exploitation
Behind The Scene of Gaming Industries

Have you
heard of overworked? Yes! It’s a common practice among Gaming Industries; they
will make you think and feel it’s leverage working for their company and doing
something great in the gaming industry.<o:p></o:p>

First,
they will exploit your dream – being hired in a gaming company is a big deal,
maybe some of us just really curious about how our favorite online games are
made off.  Fast forward, you got the job you’ll always dream of – a cool
job.  Maybe in the first few months, you’ll enjoy working overtime, but
later do know you’ve been working your ass off for over 80-hours a week.
Because some greedy corporates exploited your dream and they highly benefited
from the costs cutting. Why hire additional people when we can exploit them,
it’s their dream!<o:p></o:p>

The best example is the first infamous EA
video gaming company’s labor practices were discussed on a national scale.<o:p></o:p>

EA is one of the
most successful video game company in the world at that time was revealed
(through a blog post by a software engineer’s wife, herself a game developer)
as a place that insisted on permanent “crunch time,” cutting costs by
insisting on up to 80-hour work weeks from employees rather than hiring more
workers to make production schedules. The story broke at a time when EA was
buying up small studios throughout the industry, enforcing it's particularly
draconian standards on workers with little say in the matter.<o:p></o:p>

You may
read more of these stories from the <a href="https://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html">EA Spouse blog</a>.

The
Important Role of Modding in the Gaming Industries <o:p></o:p>

For over
two decades, modders have made significant contributions to the evolution of
the gaming industry. Some of the worlds’ most popular games such as Battle
Royle, DotA, and Counter-Strike were made by modders. They also helped
countless games like Minecraft, Skyrim, and The Sims expand and live on with
new and exciting content for players.<o:p></o:p>

But
what is really modding? And why is it so essential in today's gaming industry?<o:p></o:p>

Modding is
the art of modifying someone’s game to create new content within that gaming
world. Currently, modding is an insanely popular activity because anyone can do
it, you don’t even need insane coding skills to be a modder.<o:p></o:p>

What makes
it more popular and fun is that it unlocks creativity, builds skills, and
brings happiness to gaming communities. For many people modding is a hobby
where they can create, test ideas, or tweak a game to be smarter, easier, or do
amazing new things. For people looking to get into the industry, modding can be
a great first step.<o:p></o:p>

As you
enjoy modding you are also developing your skills along the way because you are
using similar or sometimes exactly the same development tools that the game
developers use.<o:p></o:p>

Discovering
your passion and enhancing your natural gift of modding though isn’t really a
job guarantee. However, modders build up a portfolio of their work overtime,
which they can show to gaming studios when applying for a job.<o:p></o:p>

There are
a lot of modding communities out there you can google, however, if you want
to see some examples you can check out <a href="https://www.moddb.com/">ModDB</a> and <a href="https://mod.io/">mod.io</a>.<o:p></o:p>

Overcoming
Exploitation in the Gaming Industries

Is it
really Modding the answer for the exploitation happening behind the scenes of
the gaming industries? Yes or Maybe not. I'm not being skeptical here, I just
don’t want to put this into conclusion. But one thing is for sure, modding
creates another space for unprivileged individuals to work in the gaming
industries. A breath of fresh air for gaming enthusiasts.<o:p></o:p>

The point
here is, we can all be modders – we are as essential as the people working
tirelessly in the gaming company. Modding creates opportunity, builds skills,
and innovates a whole new experience of video gaming.<o:p></o:p>

Will
it reduces exploitation? YES! But will it totally STOP the ongoing exploitation
we ain’t seeing behind the scene? NO! As long as those greedy corporate
bastards’ feeds on money will always disregard the welfare of their workers,
and that’s the reality whether you are in the gaming industry or other
industries, there will always be exploitation.  <o:p style="font-size: 13pt;"></o:p>

Exploitation In The Gaming Industry - Modding

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