Fuck me what a horrifying/exciting time to be a computer science student. I feel like I’m either going to be obsolete by the time I’m handed a degree or my job will basically be doodling and asking a robot butler to do everything for me.
So I went to college in the early nineties. I had a friend who was vacilating between a cs degree and math degree because cs did not look like it was going anywhere given how mature the mainframe systems were. Needless to say that changed by 1995.
feature complete just means they’ve truly entered a “beta” phase. They’ve made it through production, features have been completed and now the real work can begin on designers tweaking settings and balancing the game for the next year and a half.
Good riddance, but the fact that he's getting to walk away with a presumably hefty payout kind of sours the whole thing. Hopefully, Activision employees get better management out of the merger, although that is a pretty low bar to clear.
arstechnica.com
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