Nice Post - Do the Devs Ever Play This Game?

[isabow]

From the English Forum (Europe)

http://ryzom.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5489

[wicker]

I find that hard to believe. They SHOULD at least play it a little. That would be like someone making a webpage and only looking at the code and never seeing the actual page. That would be rediculas. No offence but EA has a lot of cookie cutter games and tons of sequals and they just crank games out like a candy factory. Probably using game templates for the base of most their games. Maybe they knew the games and code well already on most those. I'd imagine most devs have dual monitors. Writing the code on one and seeing it in action on the other.

Sure they probably don't play it like how the players would and enjoy it. They dont have to the time to and probably arn't really diehard game enthusiests. I'm sure they do rely on us a lot to tell them what is fun or not or what might be wrong.

[guhack]

I find that hard to believe. They SHOULD at least play it a little. That would be like someone making a webpage and only looking at the code and never seeing the actual page. That would be rediculas. No offence but EA has a lot of cookie cutter games and tons of sequals and they just crank games out like a candy factory. Probably using game templates for the base of most their games. Maybe they knew the games and code well already on most those. I'd imagine most devs have dual monitors. Writing the code on one and seeing it in action on the other.

I agree that they should play & enjoy the fruit of their labors. Yet, do consider that they are very likely working more than 40 hours a week and I'm sure they all have some sort of RL to go back to. Who's to say when they play games that they're into this type of game or another, or any at all even.

The game for them is work, hopefully fun and enjoyable to do so. I think it would be a blast.

[sadneb]

Think about it, if you coded all day would you want to turn on a computer when you got home? testing is another dept's war. quality control or whoever is supposed to look at the end result should be lynched.

[xenofur]

actually each different department has their own testing server :/