Witcher Dev Rejects "Hit-and-Run" Business Strategies

[Strazdas]

they are from poland. poland uses the eastern busness strategy of longe term profits despite short term troubles. westerners use the opposite. both strategies have made great sucess in reality (think Japan vs America), so there is a lot of debate which strategy is better. Personally i prefer the slow-burner eastern strategy.

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Your insight never ceases to amaze me. once again you just blew my mind.

pay their employees polish wages and sell their games at a western price.

What? Are we still living in the coldwar? How could a german user still think that of Poland? Id expect that out of geographically crippled americans, not a fellow european.

I live in lithuanian capital Vilnius. I interact with polish people almost every day both who come across the border and who live here (largest minority in my country). Their economical perspectives as far as wages goes are worse than it is here from what they tell me. Visiting their country i also noticed such patterns. I currently earn what would translate to 400 Euros a month. It is slightly above the average around here. The minimum wage was raised recently and now reaches almost 300 euros (298.7 technically, but lets round). Now compare that to a wage in, say, USA, france, Australia, Japan and other locations majori game studios are living in. It is clear that the workfoce is cheaper in Poland, which is what the guy was saying.
I wont go into a "German knowing more than a fin" or any sort of stupidity, but just because you are german does not mean what you say is automatically wrong.

He's not at all correct. While Poland's wages are certainly not at the same level as nations like France, Britain, etc., it's not even close to being the lowest paying country in Europe, much less the rest of the world. They're leagues away from being comparable to sweatshop-style labor as the original poster seems to imply.

So you ase your response from assuming what he wanted to say instead of what he said. he said no such thing, merely said that the wages were lower, which is a fact.
Thel ist you provided states that average gross income of a person in Poland is 1666 dollars per month. i guess its similar to what some staitsticians here counted that ended up in double the actual average wage, except thats more like quadriple. to keep it short, the list does not represent reality.

 

[A Weakgeek]

but just because you are german does not mean what you say is automatically wrong.

Oh no, no no. Thats not at all what I meant. Quite the opposite. In my experience, germans are very knowing of geography and economics. Thats why I was suprised of his attitude.

 

[Strazdas]

No, I'm basing it on what he actually said.

He was implying that

Erm WHAT?

He was implying that the company is somehow "cheating" simply by virtue of being a Polish company created by Polish people, and that its employees are somehow "taking advantage" of themselves.

It is a fact that hiring in poland is cheaper than hiring in US or France. It is a fact that this allows companies to raise the profit margin significantly in many industries, gaming included. Taking adantange of a good opportunity where such a deal does not do anyone damage is perfectly fine. he pointed out they were doing it.

 

[SquidSponge]

I'm reminded of a psychological study I once read about. Never read around to confirm it, but for what it's worth the gist of it was that n primary school children were offered x cents today, or 3x cents tomorrow guaranteed (I think it was dimes and quarters or something, but it's approximately that 3:1 ratio). Big surprise, not a single one would wait, thus reaffirming the simplest lesson of human psychology I ever learned - that the vast majority of people are f*ckin' stupid. Nice to see a dev team (or, frankly, another human being) that breaks this pattern.