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[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mmmmmm, shareholder profits.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.