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> And the game quality would suffer The Witcher 3 was a pretty good game (Polish developers) - many would call that an understatement. The Uncharted series sin
by manfredo 8y ago
> And the game quality would suffer
The Witcher 3 was a pretty good game (Polish developers) - many would call that an understatement. The Uncharted series since 2 or 3 relied heavily on outsourced development (especially for art assets). Arma 3 was developed by Czech devs. These countries probably produce lower budget games on average, and don't have lots of existing infrastructure to leverage. But that makes what they have accomplished all the more impressive given what they were working with.
What makes you so confident in the class that developers in countries with lower costs of living are worse than ones in wealthy countries? Do you think that Polish or Bulgarian developers are on average worse than American ones, and it so do you have something to back up that claim?
- Jach 8y agoThere's also, I dunno, all of the Japanese games that people love. Chinese companies are also starting to increase and market overseas, and some of those games are high quality. South Korea too. Asia is a powerhouse for entertainment software, even if we might argue they have a long way to go for business/enterprise/SaaS software.
- magduf 8y agoJapan has been a powerhouse for games since the 1980s. Have people forgotten about the NES?
- anth_anm 8y agoThe witcher wasn't outsourced to the cheapest devs available.
- yarosv 8y agoWitcher 3 or Arma were not outsourced. They were developed in house (in Poland and Czech Republic respectively).
- manfredo 8y agoMoving development doesn't necessarily entail outsourcing. Publishers can contract foreign developers for the whole game. Blizzard is already doing this with Diablo Immoral, handing development off to NetEase