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theprof00 on 12 February 2013

Another alternative would jsut be to pay the designers less, cut them royalties based on sales, and improve job benefits. For example.
Instead of paying Lyle 80k a year, you pay him 60k, cut him in on .05% (roughly 7500$ per million copies at full price) of every game sold (that he worked on), feed him everyday, and give him an intern one day per week.



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dsgrue3 on 12 February 2013
Akvod said:
dsgrue3 said:

Very informative. Seems as though most outsource the little things that may be time consuming and non-vital - props, weapons, vehicles. Smart business decision. 


Yeah, but they need to be careful not to outsource things that are vital:

http://kotaku.com/5841910/those-horribad-deus-ex-human-revolution-boss-battles-were-outsourced

A month after release, popular opinion holds firm that Deus Ex: Human Revolution was a well-made game. And yet one niggling flaw stands out, an issue that has been highlighted in countless blog posts, tweets, and video game forums. Those accursed boss battles.

As it turns out, those boss battles weren't designed at Eidos Montreal, they were outsourced to a studio called Grip Entertainment. In the video above, Grip's head Paul Kruszewski talks about the process of crafting the boss encounters, from gun-arm Barrett to silent robo stealth-chick to the "boss conversation" at the end of the game's first level.

Good point. 

I still need to finish that game. The boss with the exploding barrels was annoying as hell. -_-



Porcupine_I on 13 February 2013
dsgrue3 said:
You get what you pay for -

There's a reason not all companies do this.


Naughty Dog does it



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’