Was/is "delayed by COVID" a valid excuse in game development? They all use computers and Internet for fucks sake...

Was/is "delayed by COVID" a valid excuse in game development? They all use computers and Internet for fucks sake. Sounds to me like they just needed any excuse as to why they're letting their feet drag.

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>Was/is "delayed by COVID" a valid excuse in game development?
Yes.

sorry boss i cant show up to work today uhh i was delayed by el chupacabra please understand kthxbai

Yeah some companies just were not set up for remote work. Others were hybrid work models with some people remote and others in the office, and even small changes in how people work can lead to cascading larger issues (delays).
That said, it is also a great fall back excuse if anything at all were to cause a delay during the "covid era".

You can do game development remotely, yes, but not all companies or teams were prepared for such a switch, and sometimes it's better to have everyone in the same room working together.

Yes because Covid was an excuse for companies to switch out their workers for diversity hires by simply laying their experienced ones off indiffidently.

When you're small studio and you have 2-3 key people who have 42°C fever and feel like dying, they're not gonna code/draw/model/compose very well. What kind of stupid question is that?

I bought a game from an indie dev who said on Steam he's taking a 6 months break because his wife gave birth. I'd understand a few days or 2 weeks, but half a year? Pretty sure that guy worked from home as well and if not he would have went home after work hours.

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Yeah dude you would totally do your job instead of making up excuses and procrastinate while working at home.

>he fell for the copevid excuse

SAD!

Fuck no people are STILL using that as an excuse to do fuck all even 3 years later

Yeah imagine wanting to be a good husband and father for the newborn kid. Get the fuck outta here user.

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>sell unfinished product with the promise of finishing it
>go on maternity leave even though you're a man and work at home
>leave customers with unfinished, bug ridden product
I know this is Any Forums but are you legitimately retarded or something?

Other way around retard. It's the big companies that were affected by Covid the most because of how bloated their organization is and how hard it is to navigate through it. Lockdown made that shit a thousand times worse. Smaller companies are more flexible, have smaller budgets, have less people involved, less useless positions and were therefore unaffected by the lockdowns.

In 2020 yes
In 2021 no

Even if you're somehow still dealing with lockdowns, you had all of 2020 to figure out work from home setups for your employees that are at least secure enough for game development.

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>go on maternity leave even though you're a man
Paternity.
It's called "paternity leave."
You would know this if you lived in a first world country that recognized fathers as undeniably important members of the family (and especially important to a child's development even from birth) instead of pack mules to be worked to death.

>Nah sorry guys I dont feel like delivering the product you paid for sorry lol
So you ARE retarded? Go it.

wtf is he going into paternity leave for? he didnt gave birth, his wife did

a fuck huge amount of companies aren't really set up for most of its work force to work from home especially so suddenly including gaming, sure you can theoretically code from home but the problem is coding for games requires a good amount of tinkering and programs the average personal computer doesn't have, that and there are other things to a game beyond programming

>Go it.
Yeah I really feel like a retard for knowing the importance of a father as well as understanding that paying for an unfinished product in the first place is your own goddamn fault.
After all, the guy who can't even spell a three-letter word said I was.

Are you under the impression that the only reason maternity leave exists is to get over the stress of popping out the baby?

Yes, for 2020 through 2021. At this point however, things should have adjusted. Companies are cheap fucks and can't do anything right and deserve to be dissolved at this point.

a new born kid will suck up a fuck huge amount of your life since they require constant attention

>sitting at home making shitty unfinished pixel games
>pack mules to be worked to death.
holy fuck you're retarded

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So you're saying a couple has to leave their jobs because they feel it's better if they're both stay at home parents?

Yes because if you're making console ports, it means you can't work on them nearly as much as the PC version which you can access from home.
This is one of the MANY reasons why the PS4 and XBone ports of Cyberpunk 2077 were so completely fucked, the devs just couldn't see how buggy and unfinished they were compared to the PC version they were seeing from home

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>should game developers put their job ahead of their personal health?
>is switching from an office environment to everyone working from home and maintaining the same workflow and productivity as easy as snapping one's fingers?
You may struggle to believe it, but the answer to both is "no".

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Pc version was a mess at launch day too

Oh yeah absolutely, but it wasn't nearly as fucked as the PS4 and Xbone versions were

Who gives a shit?

While I am somewhat sympathetic to this, you can raise a new infant and do your job.
>go to office
>put baby right by you
>set timers for when he needs to eat and shit
>anything goes wrong: you hear him and can rush to him
But that is practical. Emotionally, no. If my kid gave birth I'm resorting back to being a lazyfag and playing vidya and watching him all day, thinking about my life
He puts his kid over you. It's the way the cookie crumbles.