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Lovelyman

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1 minute ago, SMD said:

Not really sure what people are arguing about when it's a fact that covid impacted everyone in terms of work, some more disruptive than others. It's okay, it's a pandemic, people's health and wellbeing is more important.

I agree that people's health and wellbeing are the most important thing, but I'm surprised that tech heavy businesses struggled to adapt. Maybe I'm mad but I've been more productive at work during covid (working from home) than I have in ages, and I know a lot of people feel the same. 

 

Obviously that's not how everyone feels. 

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1 minute ago, Lovelyman said:

I agree that people's health and wellbeing are the most important thing, but I'm surprised that tech heavy businesses struggled to adapt. Maybe I'm mad but I've been more productive at work during covid (working from home) than I have in ages, and I know a lot of people feel the same. 

 

Obviously that's not how everyone feels. 

 

My guess is that for us, not being tech oriented meant that shifting our work online/remotely was easier because all we needed to do was setup call and collaboration practices while getting remote access to our files and servers. Our IT department and vendors struggled because suddenly all the stuff that they took for granted on the local network was being hamstrung by their poor optimisation for speed vs the security policies they had.

We only needed to share our screens and upload a few pdfs and word documents. They were bogged down because they never bothered to make working outside the office as efficient as inside. Which wasn't even that efficient anyway...

 

I'd rather go back to a proper WFH programme with dedicated budget for home office setup, proper practices and etiquette as well as respecting work/life boundaries. Instead we have this dumb push to go back to normal that keeps going wrong on account of people still getting covid.

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Something which just (re)occurred to me - I had forgotten that Phil Spencer was made CEO of Microsoft Gaming.  I know he's lead this group forever, but thought he was still VP. More flags that they're in it for the long haul, I think.

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There was a (not very insightful) HBR article that made a case there were pandemic related delays, but the reasons were all the sort of thing the rest of us will have experienced. The difficulties with collaboration, spending too long working on your own in an unproductive direction etc. I wonder if there are some technical things that are more of a hassle, maybe you need access to gigabytes of assets to be always up to date and running locally on your graphics card, whereas I just Remote Desktop into a machine in a data centre. 

 

https://hbr.org/2021/08/did-wfh-hurt-the-video-game-industry

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Graham S

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I do think that making a video game seems an extraordinarily difficult task. You’re trying to be as creative as when you make a movie but you also have all the hassles of cutting edge software development. And then your work will be critically compared with the best in the world. And maybe it’s no fun, or it’s never found by an audience. It seems like a miracle that we have so many terrific games in our backlogs, enough to last us a lifetime.

 

I understand why we can look at Starfield with a skeptical eye and see more delays, bugs, frame rate issues and a 7/10 looming. But that someone can make all of that, a Skyrim in space, to something like modern expectations, I don’t know how they pull it off. It can’t be as easy as churning out widgets on a production line. 
 

We can sneer at Sea of Thieves or No Man’s Sky not having feature x or y at launch. I know that guy Molyneux’ed his way through some over-enthusiastic press interviews. But n years down the line, for games with all that ambition to be still very successful and still adding new stuff seems remarkable to me.

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Graham S

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2 minutes ago, rafaqat said:

These inteviews with the devs really looks like there's an auto prompt just behind the interviewer just off camera

The Audio Describer “a track looks like a rollercoaster!” Guy is more animated and natural than Hot Wheels Guy. 

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