• gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      17 hours ago

      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.

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        17 hours 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.