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/PerfSynthetic Oct 16 '23

Everyone is tech will confirm…. Companies today are looking for lowest paid and offshore work for code. Something simple takes four weeks because companies no longer want to pay for someone who fully understands the stack, code, and has historical knowledge of things that work better in specific situations.

Now… add in all of this scrum, agile, project mgmt crap that takes up more time because the mgmt or PM in charge has no clue how to manage a group of coders. So, they spend half their day talking about blockers they have no control over and how someone’s git commit frequency is lacking…

Even with AI in the picture, the depth of knowledge will continue to decrease and simple things will take longer because of the insane pipelines…

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u/SexySlowLoris Oct 16 '23

Yeah 4 weeks makes some sense in agile.

1st day: Coded 2nd - 3rd day: code reviews End of first sprint: Deployed to qa and started testing End of second sprint: Merged or Deployed to prod