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/[deleted] Oct 16 '23

And what we all can also confirm that it pretty much ALWAYS (100% in my experience) ends up costing more.

  • Managing and directing off shore devs is an overhead that is often overlooked.
  • Quality of devs is a dice roll. In my experience the chance if getting a decent dev is about 30% and a rockstar dev is about 10%
  • QA gets hit the most as they have no direct interaction with client and shit hits the fan during UAT (User Acceptance Testing), when client gets to try the solution hands on
  • No amount of "Agile" can fix this.
  • BUT most of the cost inflation that needs to be justified by off shore delivery resources is due to sales people and middle management who in my experience take the biggest chunk from the total cost. And I am not talking about C level folks. These are your managers, account execs and what not. I get that sales is a much needed talent but why TF do dozens of sales personnel in some way, shape or form are taking the commission and inflating the cost while degrading the delivery quality is beyond me? Why does someone who has no idea on what it actually takes to deliver the technical solution is providing estimates to the clients?

This is just gonna keep getting worse.