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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

using data oriented algorithms to process the culling of objects and both secondary command buffers and automatic batching to efficiently submit the draw primitives. It also has more useful built-in data types such as integer vectors. The core engine has been significantly optimized, especially on the memory and data-oriented areas.

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Do major AAA companies listen to the audience complaints, criticism, or do they just make their decisions based on whatever data they have ( what’s popular in other game, what are the new successful trends, etc) For example, blizzard and overwatch 2 or pokemon and their gimmick.

Ask a Game Dev

It really depends on what you mean by whether major AAA companies “listen to the audience complaints”. Most major content updates ship every three months, so three patches in the future usually means players won’t see the things we’re working for another 6 to 9 months.

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