FR isn't a AAA studio by any means but that doesn't mean it isn't influential. to date there's almost half a million accounts onsite and 80+ million dragons. while the FR team definitely has its fair share of royal fuckups it's often considered to be one of the better petsites available when considering things like economy management, content releases/quality, and community. hell, that upcoming cat petsim blatantly ripped off multiple design choices from FR.
going "FR is so niche why should we care" is a little disingenuous imo. of course todd howard isn't going to be swayed to change all of bethesda's organization because of FR but that doesn't mean that what FR is doing isn't meaningful. i appreciate that, in the world of development hell where crunch time and unhealthy hours are super common, FR devs make an effort to consider work/life balance.
FR is only relevant in the petsite community niche, which is a dying genre. I'm not saying that you have to influence Todd Howard to be influential, but I just don't see how the site is influencing anyone besides petsite makers.
genuinely not sure what you're trying to say here. yeah, it isn't some sweeping industry-wide reform/unionization effort but it's still a deviation from the norm that benefits workers. if a handful of devs involved are given a good work/life balance, is that not good enough? should a small dev team /not/ provide benefits to their employees because it won't impact the entire industry?
it's honestly just sounding like you're looking for a reason to justify disliking the team not crunching.
DA They're definitely being weird about this. The dev team is doing what it can to make a positive impact, that's a good thing regardless of the size of the impact in question.
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Re: FR admins and "crunch time"
(Anonymous) 2023-01-23 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)FR isn't a AAA studio by any means but that doesn't mean it isn't influential. to date there's almost half a million accounts onsite and 80+ million dragons. while the FR team definitely has its fair share of royal fuckups it's often considered to be one of the better petsites available when considering things like economy management, content releases/quality, and community. hell, that upcoming cat petsim blatantly ripped off multiple design choices from FR.
going "FR is so niche why should we care" is a little disingenuous imo. of course todd howard isn't going to be swayed to change all of bethesda's organization because of FR but that doesn't mean that what FR is doing isn't meaningful. i appreciate that, in the world of development hell where crunch time and unhealthy hours are super common, FR devs make an effort to consider work/life balance.
Re: FR admins and "crunch time"
(Anonymous) 2023-01-23 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)Re: FR admins and "crunch time"
(Anonymous) 2023-01-23 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)genuinely not sure what you're trying to say here. yeah, it isn't some sweeping industry-wide reform/unionization effort but it's still a deviation from the norm that benefits workers. if a handful of devs involved are given a good work/life balance, is that not good enough? should a small dev team /not/ provide benefits to their employees because it won't impact the entire industry?
it's honestly just sounding like you're looking for a reason to justify disliking the team not crunching.
Re: FR admins and "crunch time"
(Anonymous) 2023-01-23 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)They're definitely being weird about this. The dev team is doing what it can to make a positive impact, that's a good thing regardless of the size of the impact in question.