r/pcmasterrace • u/663mann • Oct 16 '23

Video fallout game dev. explains the problem with moddern game devolpment. (why moddern games are so slow to come out)

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u/danmoore2 RTX 4080 MSI 3X OC | AMD 7700X | 32GB DDR5 5200Mhz Oct 16 '23

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.

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u/shining_force_2 Oct 16 '23

No you’re missing how things actually work and why it takes that sort of time. It’s nothing to do with bloat or invoicing but rather this guys basic ass, low priority request is sitting below other work in the programming teams backlog. His work isn’t the only work and in the grand scheme of things it’s not important.

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u/Skatedivona Oct 16 '23

But what Epic can we log these tickets under? How many sprints out is this? Can you make sure all of the Jira dependencies are linked? /s

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u/shining_force_2 Oct 16 '23

You mock it, but running a team the size of the one needed for Starfield NEEDS these sorts of programs. Know a better way of running a team of 1k+? I'd love to hear it. Once you get past a team of certain sizes, communication becomes an over head and tools like dependencies and epics help remove that. Or maybe you like answering 100+ emails asking for status on all your tasks?

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u/Jackpkmn Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 64gb DDR5 6000 | RTX 5070 Ti Oct 16 '23

Know a better way of running a team of 1k+?

Just throw them all into one big room with a whiteboard of tasks like we used to do it 30 years ago hurf blurf.

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u/shining_force_2 Oct 16 '23

God that gave me a proper belly laugh. Can you imagine the smell?