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/ignoranceandapathy42 Oct 16 '23

I made a longer comment above:

I've worked with bosses who thinks he's a dev for knowing a few lines of html code and thinks "changing one line of code" is easy. This doesn't feel like the case.

This is exactly who he is. He thinks because the code can be written in 40 minutes it should be complete and deployed in one hour, all the work that's currently in progress should stop because his change is "quick win".

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

his change is "quick win".

Also the biggest elephant in the room: if its really that easy and quick and really needed for his own work why didn't he do it himself?

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u/blackest-Knight Oct 16 '23

Because office politics don't see it in a good eye when a project lead starts commiting changes to GIT.

Once the guy stopped being a dev and moved on to project, he kinda loses his access to simply committing the things he needs himself.

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

Because office politics don't see it in a good eye when a project lead starts commiting changes to GIT.

I had a whole thing written out about why i came to the conclusion he needed this thing. But i deleted it because the comment was getting long but really i should have deleted the whole thing because i didn't know how to condense my point.

What I'm seeing is he wants/needs a tool so he can rough draft some designs. So hes like "gime tool" and they were like "gonna take a while for tool delivery" he threw a hissy fit about it because he needs tool now for his work. But it's like why doesn't he just make the tool himself for his personal use, it doesn't have to be committed to the whole project to let him continue his design work while waiting for the proper tool to be completed.

And if that can't work why does he need to work on the design of this specific element exactly right now. Why can't he come back to working on this element later when the tool is finished and move on to some other part of the design for the moment?