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[madara]

I was always abit curious with this as I dont see many names I remember from gaming press back during Summer CES or in magazines back in early pc, egm, diehard days. I imagine their are not too many older farts getting top attention as much as fresh young blood. I was also curious if some journalists just found themselves not liking lastest games or fads if they came from sierra adventure game era or 8/16bit era hayday. Most of lastest publications keep replacing most of staff after few years with what seems like fresh blood. I'd think there must be alot interesting stories to tell. Anyone been doing this for ten some years without job jumping?

 

[acidviper]

well someone has to impregnate the booth babes. How else could E3 survive

 

[MC Safety]

I was always abit curious with this as I dont see many names I remember from gaming press back during Summer CES or in magazines back in early pc, egm, diehard days. I imagine their are not too many older farts getting top attention as much as fresh young blood. I was also curious if some journalists just found themselves not liking lastest games or fads if they came from sierra adventure game era or 8/16bit era hayday. Most of lastest publications keep replacing most of staff after few years with what seems like fresh blood. I'd think there must be alot interesting stories to tell. Anyone been doing this for ten some years without job jumping?

Because it's a fun and relatively easy job (it certainly beats working for a living), you'll find game critics tend to want to stay in their jobs as long as humanly possible.

However, a few things work directly against this desire. A lot of game publications and InterWeb sites simply don't make it, and whole staffs are fired at once. Other times, employees are subtly encouraged to leave by the pay structure and little chance for salary increases or movement up the ladder; in most instances, the hierarchy is fairly stratified, and the salaries, while not horrible, are oftentimes frozen.

The prevalining philosophy here is that writing about games is a genuinely enjoyable position and a lot of people want to do it. This means that employers will always have a stack of eligible candidates for every job, and if their employees leave, a company might even benefit by hiring someone at a reduced wage, or with lessened benefits.