{"id":2101,"date":"2014-06-12T22:04:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T05:04:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-02-23T12:11:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T19:11:13","slug":"this-fucked-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/node\/2101\/","title":{"rendered":"This fucked industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/assassinscreed\/comments\/27ut97\/distinct_lack_of_female_characters_due_to\/ci5z8i7\">a developer post on Reddit<\/a>, about the Assassin&#8217;s Creed fuck-up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, most teams on AAA don&#8217;t want to give up quality for anything. Why? Because that means lower Metacritic scores for one thing&#8230;a thing that most studio bonuses are inextricably intertwined with. Busted your ass for 2 years on a project and it&#8217;s expected to bring in a 90 Metacritic so you can get your 20% IC bonus? Wait, you only got an 88% because some jackass kid who gets paid in pagecounts and free games decided you did a half-assed job on the animations for the female character compared to the male and the side-quests weren&#8217;t involved enough (because your team threw those out to work on the female characters)&#8230;no bonus for you, sucker! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;Huh?<\/p>\n<p>Wake up. The responsibility or the blame aren&#8217;t for the &#8220;jackass kid&#8221; who wrote a review. The responsibility is on your idiotic management who decided you get paid on the basis of Metacritic.<\/p>\n<p>Get your priorities fixed. Responsibility usually goes upstream. Same direction where the money goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a developer post on Reddit, about the Assassin&#8217;s Creed fuck-up: However, most teams on AAA don&#8217;t want to give up quality for anything. Why? Because that means lower Metacritic scores for one thing&#8230;a thing that most studio bonuses are inextricably intertwined with. Busted your ass for 2 years on a project and it&#8217;s expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesspit.net\/drupal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}