DireTech

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Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 2 points 18 hours ago

Working as a solo dev on a project you know by heart is literally the easiest work to do. If you’ve never had to work on a large old codebase you have no idea just how hard it can be to make changes.

I’ve done this sort of thing for years and I would not even give an estimate on a change for a new project without some time to look at the code base.

Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' in c/games@lemmy.world

[–] DireTech@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago

Can’t be done is usually shorthand for the cost massively outweighs the benefits. No different from remodeling a building. Like coding, literally anything is theoretically possible but sometimes you’d have to redo so much existing work it’s never going to be worth it.