In regard to what your saying about the inability to improve university courses, it's rubbish.

I go to university next year, and have done several work placements with games companies. I recently worked with a company set up to to finance students who want to work in the games industry and take a gap year. They go to the company, work for a year, produce a commercial game, and then finish they're last year at uni. Although we're having cut back here, there and everywhere, the point remains that the industry wouldn't have to whine about immigration policy if they helped to establish more home grown talent like that company.

You see it in the film industry all the time, companies who scout for new talent, take them on and train them up. Why doesn't the game industry do this? Or at least, do it at a much greater degree. We all know how much money these guys are making, why shouldn't they feed it back into the education?

Although the fees are up, the number of applicants and the number of sponsorships this year are also up, so it everyone else has to do it, why does we? I love the games industry, but ever more recently it has become inflated with it's own self-importance. Why should the games industry get a tax relief when we are reducing the amount of money our museums and art galleries get? Why should they get a tax relief when the amount of money that is going to education is reduced? Why should the gaming industry be allowed to control pre-owned content when there are laws prohibiting other industries from doing so. Because the industry is new they have missed all the important moments where particular industries have been put in their place, soon enough, when people start complaining about the control of the pre-owned market (as an example), when it happens, which it will inevitably, they will realise they're no different from everyone else, and that somethings they have to shut up and deal with.