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askagamedev: Gamers are notoriously bad at gauging how much work it takes to do something in game development. There’s a very good reason every professional game developer I’ve spoken with about the Pokemon thing has basically said variations on the same thing: “Holy crap, they need to update that many? I’m surprised they didn’t cut …

Continue reading “what do you think about the Pokemon Sword and Shield controversy? from the e3 direct, youtube at the point in 25:00 to the end and the interviews usgamer and the famitsu article translations do you think the game developers are lying? Do you think the reasoning they cut the pokemon is because of animation and graphics that a lot of people are complaining about?”

askagamedev: Sure, that works sometimes (and its the very reason that publishers occasionally delay releases – the circumstances work out). It’s just that there are a lot of side effects to delays that aren’t immediately visible but tend to be extremely expensive. You’ve already covered the additional burn rate of salaries, deadlines, licenses, and marketing. …

Continue reading “Isn’t another way of throwing more money at the problem to just give the existing team more time, with all the cost of salaries, missed deadlines, license expirations, and wasted marketing taken into consideration. Might not that work better in some cases? For those of us on the outside, games often ship unfinished. I realise that there are budget concerns, but this line of inquiry was about throwing more money at a problem.”