minus-squaregandalf_der_12telinkfedilinkarrow-up20·15 hours agoI have the suspicion it’s not even about shareholder profits, it’s use dumb/useless metrics of success. It’s the equivalent of measuring a programmer’s productive output in number of lines of code written. It leads to code like this: Something similar happens with storage space: It is wasted unnecessarily because media designers are paid for “high definition” assets.
minus-squareSoupBrick@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-214 hours agoI was more of thinking the company prioritizing a yearly release schedule with little to no money/man power invested in optimization. Money not spent on the game is money to sate the shareholders.
I have the suspicion it’s not even about shareholder profits, it’s use dumb/useless metrics of success.
It’s the equivalent of measuring a programmer’s productive output in number of lines of code written. It leads to code like this:
Something similar happens with storage space: It is wasted unnecessarily because media designers are paid for “high definition” assets.
I was more of thinking the company prioritizing a yearly release schedule with little to no money/man power invested in optimization. Money not spent on the game is money to sate the shareholders.