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Subject: Re: It turns out Live Service Isn't Guaranteed Money after all
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:15:26 +0100
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On 20/07/2025 16:39, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> The TL;DR was that a lot of these companies didn't have the
> programmers and artists who had years and years of game development
> skill which let them know what made for a good game. It was as if
> every game was their 'first game', and that was one of the reasons for
> the diminishment of quality in game design. And it was only going to
> get worse as attrition takes out the older programmers what had
> learned their necessary lessons before corporations started treating
> developers as fungible units.

I never worked on a game in my life but in my experience there is a 
general lack of understanding of what software development entails and 
just how important domain knowledge is. A simple example is I had a 
project manager who had bought into the whole idea that it was like 
building a house so once you had the design in place it was just a case 
of cranking the handle and the product came out effortlessly.

It kinda explains how common it is for people who have never developed 
any software in their life to say something along the lines of, it won't 
take that long surely. No it won't take that long at all but I inflated 
the estimate just to annoy you, why else would I do it.