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  • toetoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•How come modern multiplayer games don't show ping/latency?English
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    5 months ago

    Because they hired UI/UX people who aren’t very technical and they told them that red numbers and technical jargon makes people sad.

    So the product manager who’s never played the game decides to drop it along with anything else the UI/UX and Marketing people say they don’t like.

    The actual developer and artists argue otherwise, but they get told that they’re “not the target market”, because they have… opinions.

    So they release the game and nobody buys it. The product manager then shifts from talking about day 1 sales to how they’re influencing the industry and the game’s success will be felt wider than just sales figures while quietly finding another project in its infancy to attach to.

    The UX/UI people are floating in the company so they’re already on the new project saying that “umm ya’know I don’t really get… modding or servahs”

    The developers are told the failure is their fault and they need to fix it and the artists are told to come up with 6 new character designs that are contractually sourced from the latest collaboration with Peppa Pig and have strict requirements where Peppa Pig can’t be shown in the same room as Sal the big mean butcher at the same time.

    And that’s the story of Concord.

    (and why you don’t get pings anymore)