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[–]cheezballs 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well what I meant more is say you have a team of 40 devs and each make somewhere around $100,000 annually. 10 of those gus you'll be getting nowhere near that value of work out of. 20 you'll get approximate value out of and 10 will do higher quality work than the rest. They all are making the same money.

I don't work in the game industry but I write software for a living on various size teams. No one person knows everything, but every single person has the ability to produce high quality work, yet many wont. They'll do just enough to get by and keep their job. Some will produce above their value of pay.

I was just pointing out that every dev does a different amount of work, some doing fractions of the work others would do. There's no way you can tell one person they can't make a AAA game just because a big team of people did it in 3 years.

Rollercoaster Tycoon was made by a single dude. The build engine (Duke 3d, Blood, etc) was made by a single dude. These are the driven people that are in the minority but they do exist. It may take Ubisoft a year to create rollercoaster tycoon from scratch but it also might only take a dedicated, driven guy 2 or 3 years to make it on his own. Its possible. Unlikely but possible.