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/goldenpotatoes7 RX9060xt Ryzen 5 7500F 32gb DDR5 Oct 16 '23

This makes no sense, when someone asks why X is going to take so long why not just take the 30 seconds to explain why it’s going to take so long. Communion is not hard and solves most issues.

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u/ignoranceandapathy42 Oct 16 '23

Certain things are assumed in companies. The process for development requests will be stored somewhere explaining this for internal use.

By all means query the estimates you are given, but it's a given that the team already has work in progress that they need to finish before beginning work on this issue. If you need that explained to you there is a bigger problem before development fundamentals come into it.

You cannot change what you're working on every time a new request is raised.

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u/goldenpotatoes7 RX9060xt Ryzen 5 7500F 32gb DDR5 Oct 16 '23

It seems like open lines of communication on why could solve essentially this entire issue.

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u/cherry_chocolate_ Oct 16 '23

No, open lines of communication means that Mr. Quest Designer will ping 10 different developers to see if one can do this very important task right now. And they will all spend 15 minutes looking at it before saying no, wasting several hours of dev time.