Developer recognition

milkdudman · 08-05-2004, 12:41 PM

Simple question. I myself do not believe developers get enough attention that they deserve. It's not publishers who slave off extra hours to complete a game within the time frame. So what is your opinion?

Hasse · 08-05-2004, 01:59 PM

Hell no! They absolutely don't!

jammin · 08-05-2004, 03:38 PM

Not at all, mostly it's the publishers who get all the recognition. It sucks!

KamisoriX · 08-05-2004, 04:13 PM

But then again when a game sux the Puplisher gets the beating not the dev

:P

PS: Sexy sig jammin :thumbup:

Thesicness_inside_you · 08-05-2004, 05:05 PM

no way do they get enought recognition, i had some chart thing on who got money from games, and im sure it was the devs who got the least amount, surely they should get the most?!?, ah well as long as they dont cry about it and stop making games im cool with it.

interman · 08-05-2004, 05:10 PM

game development usually pays fairly badly compared to business app development. the hours are much longer. there's a lot more stress, especially when close to milestones, and in plenty of cases the game might not even be released. in other cases the game has to be rushed, meaning it's released with loads of bugs that you know could be finished given a bit more time. so yeah, they deserve a lot more credit than they get

theGrayFox · 08-05-2004, 08:37 PM

guess the only recognition that dev get are from ppl like we, cause most of the kids that buy a game could care less if the game wasn't made by the prince charles... all they care is: FIFA

Sepht · 08-05-2004, 08:40 PM

Depends what game. UT maybe, Doom no, Hl2 no, CoD yes. CS hell yes, its always good job valve not good job CS mod team...

Xpendable · 08-05-2004, 09:20 PM

I believe that the GOOD , and INOVATING devolopers get their Attention because they are the ones Xploring the limits of gaming-technoligy
Blizzard / id-software / valve /
And unfortunatly in the games industry , as in every industry their are the ones that well don't survive(only the good die young)
And As for Publishers (EA

) well, 2 bad but thats the way it goes, cuz I hate publisher-money-maker games like FIFA 2089 SE-with-purble-pants-editon.
It's an industry where there is sooooo mcuh money , well you have to be the best and try really hard 2 get attention , in order to survive the buisness
But the GOOD ones well They make sure they get attention every time (and thats why they often make some really impressive stuff)
:thumbup:

theGrayFox · 08-06-2004, 09:46 AM

^
Couldn't be more right. Although blizzard can't be put in the same bag as most developers, because it really is one of the best dev houses (Diablo 3 anyone?

) . As for EA, it's allways the same shitty cheap publisher! Hey look what they did to westwood :rant: , although it didn't do much damage to the guys, the name got lost (can't wait for "battle for middle earth"

).