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[–] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

CEOs changed the game completely after one of them played spiderman 2.
warning: the story might change the way you think how some developers are treated across the world.
for a full documentary, see this YouTube video(in German, but you can turn on the subtitles)

[–] asyncrosaurus@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if the game is the best example of busineses making top-down design decisions, since that game was an obvious scam from the start.

[–] lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] asyncrosaurus@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I never saw that, that's legitimately funny. I'd love to be in the room when that feature was designed, and the reaction of the developer it was handed too.