Anybody remember all those commercials for private universities offering degrees in “game development” back in the 90s, early 2000s? I was considering it for a time. Dodged a bullet there I guess.
“Just gotta tighten up the graphics on level 3”
…as they point at their tv screens with PS controllers.
If you went to one of those degree mills, you weren’t getting into the industry anyway.
I went to one of those, around 2010ish. I have many, many consecutive hours of bitching that I could do about it, but suffice to say it’s exactly as bad as you’d expect.
I made some really good friends there, though, some of which I’m still in touch with. Out of the five of us who hung out together, I think one of us graduated.
Personally, after I dropped out, I tried to transfer the nearly half a degree worth of credits that I had completed, only to find out that not a single one of those transfers to any other school due to some difference in the school’s accreditation, which we only learned about after I left it. Very pleased to learn that, I walked out of that school with $30k in student loan debt and literally nothing whatsoever to show for it.
This kind of shit is how arson happens, don’t fall for it.
I guess they arent super massive anymore.
But at least they had a super massive layoff.
