Stop blaming developers. It’s management that doesn’t want to give the developers the time and money to optimize their game. Devs know how to optimize their game, they aren’t stupid. They can’t do shit if they don’t get the time to work on it.
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So, ports like Stellar Blade on PC are great for fans to see, and I’m hoping game developers and publishers can look at this as a template going forward.
Yeah that’s not how it works, you can’t look at other games and see how to optimize your game. Every game engine and game works differently under the hood.
People often say “developers” when referring to development studios, which includes management. They don’t necessarily mean individual software developers.
Tell that to Gamers™ who harass the low ranking devs when a game comes out they don’t like.
I haven’t seen anyone here do that, and I am not willing to stereotype gamers based on a minority of jerks.
I’m not talking about gamers but capital-G Gamers™, those are two different groups. Non of those capital-G Gamers are here, they are all on xitter
That’s probably mostly true but optimisation is becoming a lost art form that some devs just don’t know.
It’s a negative feedback loop.
The less time you can spend optimizing games the less you know how to optimize games. The less you know how to optimize games the more time it takes to optimize games. Optimizing games becomes too costly for management. Goto 10.
Daily reminder that Chris Sawyer coded Rollercoaster Tycoon by himself in x86 assembly. In a cave, with a box of scraps.
to be fair i think most people mean “the studio” rather than “the actual programmers” when they say devs.
It’s UE4 game not a UE5. That helps.
Hardly. I’ve played enough dumpsterfire UE4 ports to know it’s no better if the devs don’t put the effort in.
But denuvo
Stellar Blade performs well despite using Denuvo. Imagine how much better it will run when Denuvo is removed.
Or it will run exactly the same because it has a minimal performance impact when implemented correctly, which seems to be the case here.
I know i want to buy/play this so bad… But denuvo.
No, don’t follow denuvo
Stellar Blade ships with malware. Nobody should be paying for it or following its example. It’s really distressing that this even needs to be pointed out.
