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  • daniyeg [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    17 days ago

    they’ve spent most of the money a long time ago. since then they’ve been on the death spiral, in order to keep going they have made stretch goals ane ship packs that are increasing the scope, therefore increasing the budget, which they need money for, down the spiral they go.

    i don’t follow the game but my impression is that the huge amount of money they raised is shackling them to the wrong technical decisions they made many years ago. they can’t start over otherwise that would be millions of donor money wasted. if this was a normal company they would’ve either cancelled the project or salvaged what they can and start over.

    it also looks like most of the experienced people quit due to mismanagement and most of the staff are new hires. all i can say is i wouldn’t wanna work on a project like that.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      it also looks like most of the experienced people quit due to mismanagement and most of the staff are new hires. all i can say is i wouldn’t wanna work on a project like that.

      Some of the Glassdoor entries are an adventure to read. Stuff like “as long as the boss isn’t bumbling around and making you undo all your work for arbitrary reasons, you can just fuck off and get paid. It’s bearable as long as you don’t care about actually completing the project.”