Being able to end development is really important. You don't want it to just putter out.
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#12First the lead, now half the team. What is it with people jumping ship on KSP?
They recently released versions of the game on consoles. I'd guess that they stuck around for post-release patches, and now that it's stable, are winding down development.
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#13First the lead, now half the team. What is it with people jumping ship on KSP?
I have 0 context and background info, i'm not even into the game, but maybe it's just people moving on. I can see they have created a truly amazing game and now they are looking for new venues, new challenges. Considering the success they had I wouldn't be surprised most of those people are also getting some sweet offers.
Nope - read up. The (unverified) claim is exploitation by the game studio.
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#14Can someone give me a little background here? What exactly is 'Squad'? Is this just some of the devs leaving? A particular subgroup? They're true KSP devs and not mod devs?
Squad is the company that made the game.
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#15Background: http://www.develop-online.net/news/squad-devs-blast-kerbal-s...
Wow it's kind of amazing that USA-based coders signed up for a $2400 annual salary!
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#16Background: http://www.develop-online.net/news/squad-devs-blast-kerbal-s...
$2400 a year? What US dev works for that in this market? You are better off at burger king.
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#17Interesting. I didn't realize, before trying to figure out what this means for KSP just now, that Squad is not first and foremost a game developer: they're basically a marketing company, for which KSP was originally a 20%-style project.
I hope this development is not so much a product of internal company bullshit, but now I'm very worried it is. KSP is one of the most genuinely important games out there right now. I would be surprised if many less than 100% of the next generation of spacetravel-involved scientists and engineers counted KSP as part of their journey.
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#18First the lead, now half the team. What is it with people jumping ship on KSP?
Squad isn't a games company they are just awesome and backed an employees drive to create the game. I suspect the staff who work at Squad are attracted to all kinds of projects they're contracted for. As ksp peaks and slumps perhaps they don't want to just be in the maintenance game.
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#20Background: http://www.develop-online.net/news/squad-devs-blast-kerbal-s...
>“$2,400 was my yearly salary working a full time eight hours a day, 40 hours a week job.”
Why would you ever choose to work there in the first place?