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I am sorry, it seems that my point is completely lost behind snark. Let me put it straight then. The argument in this thread is that games industry is somehow behind times and not using the best practices used at places such as Twitter. The question is - how do you know your practices are the best and not the other way around? Game studios go out of business if they don't deliver quality software on time and on budge…
Games are more like web products than you think, I'd say. If you come up with a game-stack: 3d engine, netcode, the works, that vastly outperforms a game like League of Legends, that does nothing to threaten them either. I'm not siding with this notion that Twitter (or webdev in general) is ahead, mind you, but it's fair to say that neither websites nor games are about selling software. They're more about entertainme…
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#51You are right, f2p games are a lot like web - they sell service, not software. Interestingly, these companies look a lot like web firms - thousands of people working on the product, which barely changes and, I've heard, using the same programming practices. This is not what people mean when talk about games industry.