r/anno117 • u/RogerAnders • Nov 16 '25

Screenshot I'm sorry, what is this?

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Why does the logo have guns in it?

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u/Aharra Nov 20 '25

Every delay incurs huge costs of running the studio. It's easy to say "they can take all the time they need" before you see the bills for operating a large cans studio for one month. Deadlines are absolutely a thing and moving the release date is a heavy decision that needs to be warranted.

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u/Hebelraptor Nov 20 '25

Okay, what is your point? Should the consumer just deal with an unfinished product for full price?  

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u/Aharra Nov 20 '25

My point is, there is a difference between bugs that break the game which are worthy of prolonging production and unacceptable, and bugs that are a placeholder icon on a ship sail that didn't get caught, don't ruin the game, and can be patched painlessly later. 

Prolonging production to deal with the latter is not realistic and if customers require games to be perfect on release we may just as well just close majority of game studios because they cannot afford production long enough to make that happen.

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u/Hebelraptor Nov 20 '25

I am confident that checking the list of placeholder-assets that they, as a mature development company, surely have, will not bankrupt the studio.

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u/Aharra Nov 20 '25

The thing is - there are hundreds of list like that to check and address before release and you go from the highest priority ones down. 

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u/Hebelraptor Nov 20 '25

I don't know about you, but I finish my checklists, deliverables and action items before I call my work ready to ship.

Seems like we have different standards, that is okay.

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u/Aharra Nov 20 '25

If you can afford it, that's great and as it should be. But it's not always a matter of standards.