mrtksn parent
Was this because the game dev salaries were low in US or high in Europe?
The former.
Meanwhile, a lot of the higher value work such as in Engines tends to pay pretty high - for example, Epic Games pays SWEs and PMs in the $200-400K TC range, but this is overwhelmingly in the US. Similar story with Unity despite originally being European, but shifting to the US in the 2000s.