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1/15/2021 4:35:23 PM
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You legitimately think they’re gonna take 10k computers home to get animal hair in? Run the risk of someone getting COVID on their computer and bringing it back in? Lol na dude, Hell I wouldn’t let anyone with a child take one, just for the safety of the property. Last thing I’d want as HR is to replace half the shit because someone’s cat pulled a cord out or their kids spilt a drink on the tower.
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You legitimately THINK it takes 10k computers to get animal hair in? Lol na dude, it doesn't. And yeah... of course the would go in and get their equipment. It has happened all of last year, with millions of companies, to be able to use work equipment. Do you work in corporate America? It did happen, it continues to happen, and it'll happen again as people go back and forth between work and home. You seriously think people don't take laptops home? You think people don't have rigs set up at home and don't log into work servers? C'mon man!
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Idk how you missed my point that bad. My point was would you WANT animal hair in a 10k computer? No, probably not. It could happen to a $300 computer or a million dollar one. But you’d prob be more upset about the one that costs more. Lab tops aren’t desktops. Don’t talk about corporate America if you think a game developer can get the same work done on a labtop as they can a desktop. Come on, that’s just a basic understanding of game development and the machines they’re made on. And no, I seriously doubt a bungie employee is gonna spend 10,000 dollars on a computer to work from home more on. I’m sure some of them have nice builds for gaming, but not for game development. They’re not slaves, they likely have lives they want to lead outside of developing games. Are there a couple? Probably. 600+ of them? Not a chance in hell.
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Ah... you meant $10k computer, not 10k computerS. I did miss that point. You do realize it's not the MACHINE, so much as it's the SOFTWARE, right? You do know that, right? Of course you need beefier specs, but AGAIN, yes... most definitely, you can take those rigs home and remote in. If you are still arguing against that, then fine.... believe what you want to believe, but that doesn't make it so. Bungie (of course) can do the work remotely. There is no reason to make excuses for them. Have a good one.
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I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’m saying it’s an HR nightmare waiting to happen, and those business decisions will effect if they can take them home or not. I’m not saying bungie did 0 work at home. Iirc they made 200 dev labtop kits specifically to work during covid. But 200 isn’t 600, and labtops are gonna have the same dev capabilities as a PC. I’m not trying to defend them. I’m just trying to be realistic. No company is gonna send every PC they owned home with an employee, and the pandemic unquestionably hindered bungie. Especially in Washington state, which was shut down basically half of the year.
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And if we want to be realistic, how expensive a PC to develop a game costs? Even with the newest parts released on the market I don't think it will reach $10k and I don't think they need that much to work on the game. Also, isn't PC build for gaming is strong enough for game development? Seeing the salary of game developer being $5k a month, I don't think it's too much to have a build for work unless life cost in America is bloated like healthcare that I see on the internet
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Edited by Seventh7of7: 1/16/2021 9:16:03 AMThe 10k argument is not quite valid. Has no one heard of vpn remote desktop or pcoip clients. This is a standard business practice. You have your 10k workstations in racks and the employee remotes in to do work. They even do this direct in the office so there are not 10k desktops sitting around they are all in racks in a server room. You can have a chrome book or whatever and just run a client. All the processing is done on the server the client only receives video so no need to major processing power. Very similar to how Stadia works where do you think that idea came from lol. One of the largest providers is teradici pcoip. Many major companies use this including game developers. Example if you want to see what it is about. This one is exactly about remote game development https://www.teradici.com/docs/default-source/resources/solution-briefs/create-amazing-interactive-gaming-experiences.pdf
