There is this exercise you can do for Agile/Lean estimation where you run a multi stage beer store by passing only order quantity notes up and down a chain.
The intent is to trick the participants into a whiplash effect where the retail store has a one off jump and so orders bigger than normal, and the whole supply chain then gets excited and thinks this is the new normal rather than an anomaly.
The exercise ends and the excess beer in the chain is counted.
Staffing when hyped is similar.
You are not wrong, but remember that they only employ like 40-50 people. Even if the playerbase goes down to 10% of what it is that’s still not a lot of people.
Considering I’m heading for a layoff soon, I’m actually probably going to apply. Glad I learned Japanese in grad school.
Best of luck!
Thank you!
Oh wow, I didn’t realize they were Japanese. I wish I was in a spot in life that I could apply, too. Good luck!
Thank you!
Its pokemon with guns. Its either american or japanese.
I hope you get it, but aren’t they in Korea?
I looked, and they’re headquartered in Tokyo!
Nice
From what I’ve read about their Daily Active Users they’re going to be overstaffed soon. No hate but they exploded and when things settle they might not need as much staff. Thoughts?
They could lose 80% of their players and still be understaffed with a team of 40 tbh.
Oh wow, I obviously didn’t read the article. Shame on me. Had no idea they had that few on staff.
You’re good. I’d have thought the same thing had I not been following the development story.
Their game pass numbers also seem to be going up, which is harder to dev for as well. I know my steam friends got sick of it after putting in 100 hours in three weeks though
I too have sunk more then 100 hours into the game. It was worth its purchase already. Yet in a year or however long it takes to be complete… i and many others will jump right back on to see how everything has progressed. Plus they’ll release on play station and that alone will be millions more copies sold.
Yeah it reminds me of the Elden Ring “where’d the players go?” articles. They beat the game. I’ll be back with the next content drop
HOPEFULLY elden ring dlc will come out on its two year anniversary. Of course itll probably just be a trailer, but people can hope.
This is how it happens. If they dont staff to meet the demand the game suffers and dies out, if they do in a few years when the player base falls off and they announce layoffs everyone makes the shocked Pikachu face.
Maybe they can shift some off of the five projects they’re working on that they’re going to abandon this game for.
