Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 21 hours ago

Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'

lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 8 hours ago

The developers aren’t in charge of what’s in the game, the PMs and accountants are

A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world · 2 hours ago

To be fair, the Prime Ministers should really be focused on more important things than a game companies software development.

Shanmugha@lemmy.world · 4 hours ago

Yess. I boggles me that the narrative is still “devs this, devs that”. It doesn’t take becoming a game dev to understand that actual software developers are not calling shots on plot twists, monetisation model and so forth. Like, what the hell is wrong with people babbling about devs?