ALTIt will depend on how far over finances we’re projected to go and the way a lot budgeted dev time we’ve obtained left. If our [burn rate] is trending method too far over finances to feasibly make our launch, the reply is often “cancel the sport”. On uncommon events, when the celebs align and the proposal is accepted, the reply is “get the folks funding the undertaking to inject extra funding for improvement time”. Requesting extra funding should be justified, and it’s completely potential that the extra funding request will get denied and the undertaking finally ends up both having to make due or will get cancelled.
ALTThe most typical reply, nonetheless, is “Start slicing options and content material from the bottom precedence upward till we’re again on finances”. Even when we handle to get extra funding, this can be very frequent to chop stuff on high of that to assist reassure the writer that we’re doing our half to manage the scope of the undertaking. If we’re fortunate, typically these decrease precedence reduce options and content material might be repurposed into DLC later relying on how a lot extra work they want. In any other case, it will get shuffled off to the archives, probably by no means to be seen once more.
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