Recent layoffs at Bungieare just the latest sign of that. TheDestiny 2studio just cut 220 jobs in the wake of its successful and critically acclaimedThe Final Shapeexpansion. Even if you manage to beat the odds and create a popular live-service game, it’s becoming clear that that’s stil...
like the code to support Cross Play in Destiny. Some of it is 20 years old, such as the code to check gamepad button presses. Some of it is platform-specific to support all the environments we ship on. And some of it is cruft