@Pyrosa: ...and always always keep your own copies of your commits. Sooner or later an acquisition (or downturn, or whatever) WILL disrupt you. Be able to immediately upgrade your role. Share your stats, AND the skills you practiced for that NEXT job ahead of time.
Cutthroat has ALWAYS been the norm.
See my first sentence in my first reply folks. PR and HR just pretended to have the upper hand for a couple years.
@Barighm: I may have been unclear in my phrase, "outpacing the productivity of your peers."
I'm saying, LEAN INTO that system. Constantly, normally, calmly document your successes. Code commits, big fixes, suggestions on group emails, ALWAYS add at least one helpful suggestion during meetings, and simply don't allow yourself to think you can quietly hide.
Not comfortable speaking up? Then you'd better type twice as much. I always actively seek out the quiet geniuses, but coders can make themselves visible in JIRA, Bitbucket, Github, or wherever they can track work or comment on code. Make your username a sign of relief to management.
@pappino360: The most transparent part is that all the guides are still here to harvest those sweet search engine clicks from millions of kids who don't give two wand shakes about any of this. They just want tips on their GOTY.
The game is a 9/10, easily, on XSX. It's equal parts Witcher 3 and "every ARPG system folks have come to expect, including QOL features." I've never seen all my family members have to SCHEDULE TIMESLOTS on a single system in the house -- nearly all other games are being ignored.
Easily a GOTY contender, and (once again), I've been gaming since gaming's inception, on just about all platforms, in just about all genres.
If you care about the Trans argument: this is THE most inclusive game ever made. There is not a close second. It's a non-issue no matter what side you're on, once you ACTUALLY PLAY THE GAME.
If you get up in arms over "evil corporations and how game workers are treated" -- there's no better game this year (yet) where the employees clearly poured their lives into it. Their bonuses are paid by the title's success. Their resumes flourish accordingly.
The text reviewer literally wrote a series of complaints about things where any previous game gets praised -- or worse, these same features were expected. Every single Ubisoft game, Bioware game, and other open-world game is a map full of side quests. This naturally has those too. Very few can match 10/10 Witcher 3 side quests, and even fewer have the QoL features Hogwart's has.
If you're a Potter head, my kids are constantly calling out lore I have no clue about. As an old DnD head, I'm just excited that they HAVE lore to call out. This is full of it.
Few are harsher on AAA than I am these days, and after spending hours watching my kids take their various paths / choices (constantly glancing up from my own laptop doing other things), now even I've got my own playthrough going.
Oh , and fellow Soulsborne fans: B is dodge-roll. Set the Hard difficulty.
@boodger: If productivity was on par, it never would have come up.
I saw to buildings of devs get called back last month, and one building (different, highly productive team) get converted to perma-remote. Mgmt is selling their building, yet that product is profitable.
The ones called back missed feature deadline after feature deadline.
@Pyrosa: Regarding the return-to-office crying: This is a PERFECT example.
If you think your skills and knowledge -- but most importantly, your DISCIPLINE -- are strong enough to work from home, but that on your resume. Tell employers up front. If you're ACTUALLY that valuable and can prove past output, they won't even blink.
I have not reported to an office since 2010. ...by MY mandate.
Work harder, and always be learning the NEXT guy's skills. Eventually there won't be anytthing you cannot learn, and get paid for.
...because they ARE unimportant. This whole annoying current generation's need for feelings-based validation is laughable. You want to feel important? Use Blizzard/ATVI/EA/Ubi to plump up your resume while maximizing the skills you can learn there, outpacing productivity of your peers, and then go get a decent job where you ARE important. Or better yet, strike out on your own, or with a small team. Then it's life or death.
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