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Producers get paid according to market forces. Low starting wages make perfect sense to me, especially since so many producers turn out to be worse than useless.

Yes, producer is a hard job to do *well*, but very very few new producers do it well. They mostly act as conduits for stress - all the publishers worries about budget and ship-date get funnelled into one individual, and that individual either (rarely) deals with it, or (more often) sprays this stress over the entire team.

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What a bunch of unimaginative, money-grabbing, souless, screw-anyone-for-a-buck, lying, thieving ****s.

My complaint:

Hello,

I found your article "The Nintendo DS System" to be pretty misinformed.

FYI, Nintendo has been quite cautious about this sort of thing - chat over the internet is only permitted between players who are already in contact with one another via some other method, so contact can never be initiated via the internet when using the DS. Presumably they're doing this at some cost in users and/or revenue, since it limits the appeal of their online games somewhat.

Local-area chat, where the users must be in close proximity, is indeed possible with strangers. But any sane child would react to a nearby stranger joining their chatroom in the same way as they'd react to him walking up and joining a conversation. The girl in the story is a case in point.

Given all of this, Mr. Dunn's comments come across as particularly ill-informed. I am surprised that neither he, nor you, bothered taking a few minutes to get the story straight. For your convenience, here is the actual story:
1) Large corporation willingly sacrifices money and customers to make their product safer for children.
2) Child approached by scary man.