Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 13 hours ago

Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months'

Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 hours ago

Even if you’re an actual software dev, it’s still pretty much impossible to guess how much work something is without knowing the codebase intimately.

mriswith@lemmy.world · 4 hours ago

Absolutely, it’s impossible to know how much. But it’s a lot easier to grasp that it’s rarely just “changing a few lines” when it comes to these types of situations.

Specially since many programmers have encountered clients, managers, etc. who think it’s that simple as well.