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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by cecilpl2 on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:29PM (#30153821)
Paying money for a tool means having a person develop that tool for you.
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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by spelunker on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:45PM (#30154056)
Obviously yes, but if you're attempting to add up person hours worked for some project, I don't think you would include the hours spent in say Mac OS.
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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by slugiscool99 on Monday January 31, 2022 @03:55PM (#30154193)
Sure, but game devs use tools like unreal engine the development time of which shouldn't be factored into the human hours calculation
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