The reality is that these game studios are not hiring the right people especially from a development perspective especially in the realm of highly distributed, server-based games. The system are extremely inefficient and slow and cost ridiculous amounts of money to operate and the game engines are weak. Looking at GTA6. No software should ever take 10-12 years to develop. That usually means you had to rewrite it multiple times as the technology changed. But, a well-designed, architected and engineered system, wouldn’t require that level of effort. And if you focus on the design elements as being the issue, even movies that are mostly CGI doesn’t take that amount of time or costs. I know this comment will be received completely negatively, but it is for the leadership of these studios and companies like Microsoft to make better hiring decisions and apply the same discipline and requirements they do for all their other products. Maybe then, the industry wouldn’t be crashing like it is because of crazy cost overruns and then games people can’t afford to buy.
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The reality is that these game studios are not hiring the right people especially from a development perspective especially in the realm of highly distributed, server-based games. The system are extremely inefficient and slow and cost ridiculous amounts of money to operate and the game engines are weak. Looking at GTA6. No software should ever take 10-12 years to develop. That usually means you had to rewrite it multiple times as the technology changed. But, a well-designed, architected and engineered system, wouldn’t require that level of effort. And if you focus on the design elements as being the issue, even movies that are mostly CGI doesn’t take that amount of time or costs. I know this comment will be received completely negatively, but it is for the leadership of these studios and companies like Microsoft to make better hiring decisions and apply the same discipline and requirements they do for all their other products. Maybe then, the industry wouldn’t be crashing like it is because of crazy cost overruns and then games people can’t afford to buy.