Striking Writers May Work on Games 124
The ongoing Writer's Guild strike may soon impact even the games industry. While most of the copy writers working on games are not a part of the guild, via Eurogamer comes a Variety article about a possible Hollywood writer's migration to other media. "While the WGA has made no secret that it would like to eventually cover vidgame writing, it hasn't pushed the issue yet and is allowing members to work on games during the strike. 'It has been an interesting shift," says one tenpercenter who focuses on vidgames. "The literary agents are now saying, 'Why don't we get our clients over there during the strike?' even though in the past they thought the money wasn't good enough or the work is too demanding.'"
Is this good or bad? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Is this good or bad? (Score:5, Interesting)
The union's fight is not their fight - soap operas don't sell DVD's or get watched online.
Hollywood writers are good? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Hollywood writers are good? (Score:3, Interesting)
Indeed - everyone should go to the bookstore. I totally agree. Or rather, let them stay home and gel on their sofas...I'll gladly climb over them.
I wouldn't worry either way (Score:3, Interesting)
Also, since game companies already have a successful business model, they are quite likely to have a "take it to leave it" kind of attitude. The WGA can't "strike" against them since they aren't needed.
My guess is that most will find that game writing just won't give them the kind of pay scale they want, and probably won't end up taking a job.