one word

UNIONIZE

that would put a lot of the publishing world in it's place. I have never worked for a developer directly but for third party support/testing. You guys got rushed to get the product out to us, we got rushed to finish any internal testing, game ships regardless of our input or concerns, we got swamped with unsolvable tech support issues and angry customers.

I have wondered why there isn't a large technology union. with outsourcing and overworking (if your lucky enough to have work) wage disparity due to cheap labor as described below by et72, and a whole lot of other items that I am sure I am not aware of.
now is the time.