I've heard the writing is better in the original Russian. DS could benefit from a dedicated translator, especially if they could also take on some of the core writing duties as well. Enhancing the writing could add a lot to the game without a whole lot of effort.
yup, Fox said something like that a dozens of pages ago. Moreso a reason to hire a translator.
When other devs see, how low your quality can be to earn a decent amount of money, they will think that this is
the way to go. A short time later, there will be shitty written and shitty rendered VN´s and games flooding the market.
People won´t tell if a game is really good or just pandering to their needs. Quality will fall down, everyone looses but devs making tons of money for selling shit because nobody can tell anymore what good game mechanics etcetc. makes a good game(and other stuff as well: books, movies... you name it)
He's probably not into it but I suppose it's also a matter of a changed storyline. Initial versions, regardless of their flaws, had some core ideas around which scenes were built. I don't know what BB is about right now except for fucking whole family. Fucking for fucking might be frustrating when it's so different from what it was at the begining.
Rendering is a one thing but I think it's much more than just writing and rendering. He has to make some programming as well. It takes some time as well as mentioned writing. If he's doing it by himself he won't be faster than 1-4 guys so it doesn't matter how many renders they did. And I disagree with hiring a writer. In DMD it was necesarily due to its content but even there it's visible. Changing writers midway of development is usually pretty noticable. Btw. that's how AAA market works - you're making a game - you're succesful so you're hiring people to render for you - you're growing so you're hiring people to write and code for you - you're a CEO but your game isn't exactly yours at this point as every elemnt is outsourced.
Agreed. the most harshest way i saw what a change in writing and editing can do, was the Star Trek Series Enterprise(w/ Jonathan Archer) First two seasons were shit and meh at best. The last two seasons were written by a different writer and the quality went up a like a rocket. (though it still got canceled)
If you outsource your product, you need to be in control of the different aspects of your product to make sure it fits your concept when it´s done. Changing something can make a huge difference, like design, used materials and such. It´s given that sometimes you have to make a change due to changes in the workflow or your steel provider(example) went bankrupt and other steelworks schedule is full, so you have to rethink what material you can use for your product. Or some law changes ... you get the idea. Any CEO who doesn´t pays attention to the market will go down ... like Nokia