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Bungie recently revealed that the red war campaign in destiny 2 is unavailable, even internally. They said its due to outdated code. How often does that happen in live service games? And what sort of decisions are made that leads to all the work seemingly being put down the drain?

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Most content built during a particular hardware generation is available and functional during that hardware generation because things don't change too much. Red War was launch content back in 2017, on the Xbone, PS4, and Windows. That's what I suspect happened.

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Solo dev Vladyslav Pidiashenko “I hope IHAS will inspire players to better their lives”

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“I wanted IHAS to deal with so many philosophical concepts,” Pidiashenko explains. I produced a lot of content and had some success, but it wasn’t all that sustainable. Eventually, I burned out and decided to end my content creation career in early 2021. Will you ever work in a team or is it only solo for you?

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COCOON creator Jeppe Carlsen “I never compromise on playability”

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While he didn’t immediately embark on this ambitious project, the concept lingered in his mind and gradually took shape as a concrete game design. Complex feature The core concept of worlds within worlds was the first feature prototyped for Cocoon, undergoing substantial improvement and iteration.

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The walls are alive with tiny people in Cyborn’s Mixed Reality game Wall Town Wonders

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Within days, the concept was pitched to Meta and greenlit enthusiastically. We intend to support it with extra content and exciting seasonal updates we have planned for the coming months and year.” Agemans soon landed on the idea of open wall spaces as the perfect canvas for a miniature town. Our main focus right now is on this game.

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A follow up to your answer about veilguard (was really hoping you would touch on that one). Why do game companies that have a “bad” release always seem to start from the bottom of the pyramid when it comes to restructuring and recouping losses? Why fire low level devs who did their best with what they had, when the companies have people in senior positions making hundreds of thousands of dollars (if not more) that they could just cut from? Why do the trenches always get the punishment first?

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This is because a given project is at its maximum headcount right before it ships - you need all hands on deck during full production, building and validating all of the content in the game. There needs to be other projects in development to pay for those people after the game launches.

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