Ways to increase dev resources quickly
Anet doesn’t need more money for “cool stuff”. They have 300 devs and they can only do so much in a day. You can’t force a horse to pull more weight by feeding it 10 times as much food. If you want to pull more weight you need more horses, or in this case devs.
But Anet doesn’t want to hire more devs. They want their company to remain a certain size that they are comfortable with.
Anet doesn’t need more money for “cool stuff”. They have 300 devs and they can only do so much in a day. You can’t force a horse to pull more weight by feeding it 10 times as much food. If you want to pull more weight you need more horses, or in this case devs.
But Anet doesn’t want to hire more devs. They want their company to remain a certain size that they are comfortable with.
wasnt it 200 something devs? with like 120 workimg on epxac 2 while the rest in raids fractals lw and stuff?
wasnt it 200 something devs? with like 120 workimg on epxac 2 while the rest in raids fractals lw and stuff?
Wikipedia says >300 employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArenaNet
That might sound like a lot, but consider it takes anywhere from 25-50 people to build a content patch like Head of the Snake. And that’s just artists and programmers. You also have playtesters and bug fixers and marketing so the number of devs goes up. And yes, the majority of the devs are hard at work on the expac, not living world.
wasnt it 200 something devs? with like 120 workimg on epxac 2 while the rest in raids fractals lw and stuff?
Wikipedia says >300 employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArenaNet
That might sound like a lot, but consider it takes anywhere from 25-50 people to build a content patch like Head of the Snake. And that’s just artists and programmers. You also have playtesters and bug fixers and marketing so the number of devs goes up. And yes, the majority of the devs are hard at work on the expac, not living world.
in one of their ama’s MO said that they had 70 ppl working on expansion 2 120 on the live game and 30 of these who work on both
Not all employees are Devs.
Not all employees are Devs.
true but also the wiki is not the most valid place for aswers since it tends to be outdated and in the staff case that that is the case since some names are from devs that have left.
Yet, the Devs have stated more than once there are 300+ employees, not to mention various articles.
I doubt that Mike would include the Legal staff, the CS staff, the janitorial staff, the accounting staff, etc., when speaking about Devs working on the expansion or Living World updates.
Im not saying about waht he stated in the past which might bot be the case now i dont know. But he brought up the wiki as proff which is.kimda wrong considering the
list has name or debs who have left.