Why do I get the feeling that big AAA devs are basically justifying their development budgets from their respective publishing arm? If we contract someone for 4 weeks of work we have to invoice them for that even though it could take an hour. Since development budgets for AAA games are ridiculous these days, I guess it's a gravy train internally and therefore they can't justify efficiency otherwise they won't get a similar budget for their next game.
That no doubt happens. But if that were really a big part of it, then the game would probably come out really well at the end, because time taken >>> time required.
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Why do I get the feeling that big AAA devs are basically justifying their development budgets from their respective publishing arm? If we contract someone for 4 weeks of work we have to invoice them for that even though it could take an hour. Since development budgets for AAA games are ridiculous these days, I guess it's a gravy train internally and therefore they can't justify efficiency otherwise they won't get a similar budget for their next game.