Skills shortage?

Found on the web: Skills shortage hits games firms. Poor poor game companies, they can't find skilled slaves anymore. They blame it on math education and whatnot. Well, sorry but your reputation is not that good. If the reputation was better and it would be a good job, *gasp* people would actually bother with the necessary math.

It is about eight years ago I visited a game company with a friend. My friend knew a member of the team that did work on the Refactor 2 engine for Battlefield 1942. We visited him at his office, in the evening around eight or nine. Because he was still working. About two years prior to the release date.

Usually what I've met game programmers they are insanely skilled at what they do. I can be humble and say that I'm not nearly as good of a programmer as most game developers are. But also AFAIK the average game developer drone is not paid that well compared to the skill set and the hours he puts in.

Is there a shortage, I would not say so. Most people don't want to work under poor conditions for a lousy pay and they even have to know advanced math. People that know advanced math usually are smarter than that.