Quote Originally Posted by harniq View Post
1: The market is broken. Guild Wars 2 is a top tier piece of software and requires top tier technicians to make it work. IT professionals, graphical designers, programmers, these are just different kinds of engineers. The current market for skilled engineers is worse off than dusk. Virtually no supply and very high demand. This means that a moderately skilled engineer can demand 50k a year + extras and will get it with a smile.
This is because the western education system seems to be afraid of computers. Simply teaching CS from a young age and at a decent level will allow 11th grade students to pass current professional programming interviews.

Pretty graphs which underline the problem.(in the US, but it's similar in most countries in europe)