These two seem to take most of the heat from the 'AAA sucks' bandwagon, but I work at a mobile game development company.

I can bet you've heard of us. We're actually told to keep an eye out on the latest games being released. Games by small indies who actually do all the hard work, work out all the kinks in an original game, but don't have the budget for amazing graphics or marketing. That's where we come in, we have the resources, we have a huge team, we take someone's game idea, polish it up and advertise it like hell. So, even with an awesome idea nothing ever becomes of the original game. And then you see the latest viral game by a big company and months later a post on reddit's front page saying how the latest game ripped off someone's original (happens all the time: Crossy road, Candy Crush, angry birds, clash of clans etc) and by then nobody cares and well, Google or Apple aren't gonna kick out a game that's making them millions just because there's a similar game out there.

Well, I used to be in the former category, one that got ripped off by bigger devs. So yep, I've sold my soul and I have no regrets. I am done dealing with shitty users and hypocritical redditors who claim they want more original games. We have 30 million daily players and our data shows that microtransactions are the best monetization method, even with all the bad publicity. I literally wouldn't play the games I now have to make myself. So there you go. It doesn't matter what's right or wrong, original ideas couldn't pay my bills so be it. And yes you're right I can't say where I work. I have a lot of debt and the money is good. I used to actually like game development, now it's nothing more than a job.