Re:Epic Games is making hundreds of temp testers into full e...
by ido on Sunday February 20, 2022 @01:28AM
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Yeah, ultimately how good the code is (or even how buggy the resulting product) is just a side-effect and not the main goal. Fortnite is making so much money that having to spend 2x as much on engineering because the code is a mess is business wise just not that big of a deal.
Somewhat (obviously to within reason) decoupling design decision from what would be easy/convenient for the developers to implement is often the right thing to do from a business point of view.
The more time I spend working on startups and less at BigCos, the more I value the non-technical train of thought - unburdened by the implementation details. Sometimes those people are needed to push the envelope. Clearly, Fortnite is doing something right. At any rate, it's not a coincidence that most great companies have someone at the head that _mostly_ knows what's entailed by the dreams, but proceeds to dream nonetheless.