Epic CEO: Unreal Engine 5 performance issues mainly due to devs not optimizing properly

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curl-6 said:

sc94597 said:

Developers rarely determine the scope of a project (although their input is considered to an extent.) Designers (often with the input of the publisher these days) are the ones who do that. 

Designers are "developers".

This is not traditionally how these words are used, no. Designers are part of a software development company, but they aren't developers in so much as they are solely performing the designer role. And not all (actually, very few these days) designers have a history as a developer. Many game designers have not written any code and have very superficial ideas of computing constraints. It is their job (in part) to know these constraints, but that is an ideal rather than a practical reality.