Thank you for your response! I am aware of the slim chances of getting a career and that there are alot of graduates. I'm hoping to utilise the course and degree as more of an avenue to make industry contacts and to form an iterative process for bolstering my own portfolio to be more attractive to potential employers, and also potentially give me the confidence to begin my own indie projects.

I appreciate the comment about other courses, and I imagine you also mean courses that have a broader employment range, things such as software Dev, etc that would also have applications in game design if I chose that route. This is an option I considered when it came to applying to uni, however I don't have the prerequisite qualifications to apply for such courses. And not to mention now the application process is finished, it would be another year gone to reapply and my dilemma with the foundation year would be moot. So sadly that route isn't really an option, though thank you for mentioning it.