I refuse to buy it purely for this fact. Not because I want to pirate it, but because I do most of my mobile gaming while on a plane. And I'm not paying for in-flight WiFi just for Mario.

That part read as jealousy to me. I have some friends who make more than me and I do nothing but congratulate them.

It is jealousy and it's fully justified jealousy. It's not just some buddy who makes more than you, because he was lucky getting a better job. The person in question is incompetent, 100% not fit for the job, a fraud and adds negative value for the company. Would you be happy and congratulate him on making more than you do?

He wasn't "lucky" to get a better job. He got it. It's not a lottery. You apply, and someone hires you.

If you want a better job, go get it.

The "lucky" friend was just for juxtaposition. The point of my post was not about the role of luck or lack of it in getting a job.

And you would still do that if they were complete frauds?

Six prizes? Should have just done it once and then laid low (if he wanted to get away with it, not saying it was ethical). Seems like he got greedy.

Have you had any issues with some parallel features overlap in their changes? IE: messy merge conflicts in models after two teams took base functionality in different directions?