This one goes out to all the people working on the new Halo game. I'm sure some of you are here on the forums. You may not openly show yourselves but you're here.
As a Halo fan and fellow developer (tho not from the game industry) I just wanna say I appreciate you and everything you do. The late hours at the office, the early mornings and the weekends.
All of you programmers, designers, analysts, testers, team leads, project managers, administrators, system engineers, network engineers, web developers, juniors, seniors, architects and even the guys from management.
All of you, I know how hard you're working to get this game out to us, the fans. I know what you're going through.
I know there are days when you don't feel like doing anything. I know there are days where you're sitting at your desk at 1 pm, sleepy after lunch, with a few Visual Studio tabs open and you're secretly looking up cat pictures on Reddit, trying to look like you're doing actual work stuff. You're sitting there wondering about "What kind of excuse for not coming to work tomorrow would my boss believe?".
I know there are other days where you wake up at 6 am and you start writing code in your head in the car to work because you finally figured out that thing you've been trying to solve since last Tuesday. I know there are days where you can't come up with anything until 4 pm and then the code surge hits you, so you stay in the office until 8 pm and after a while your social life becomes a faint memory and your friends give you flack for never hanging out with them.
I know you analysts draw diagrams and flow charts just to have nobody even take a look at them because by the time you're done half the features and architecture have already changed. You constantly listen to conflicting ideas from various departments and everyone expects you to put it all together, just for most devs to only glance at that document you've painstakingly been working on for a whole week.
I know you system support guys don't get enough respect because you don't fix someone's "Outlook Disconnected" problem the minute they walk into your office. People make fun of you because you ask them to "open a ticket" whenever they run into you on the way to the bathroom and start telling you their little problems. You just want to take a piss and some guys is talking about how he can't connect 8 USB devices to his laptop at once.
I know you sit at meetings day in and day out, listening to people repeat the same thing five times and wonder "What's the point? I'm already behind on this thing I'm working on and here I'm wasting time listening to stuff that I can't even do anything about."
And you testers, I know what you're going through. Everyone outside the studio thinks you have the best job ever. "You play video games all day and you get paid for it". Yeah, in theory. In practice you do the most tedious and boring things all day, filling out bug report forms. And then the devs resent you for returning the bug report they thought they closed back to them.
I know how hard you work and I thank you for it, because what you do will give joy and entertainment to me and countless others one day. When it all comes together and people get their hands on it and enjoy it, all the hard work will pay off.
So know that I and many others appreciate you immensely, even though we don't say it as often as we should.
Thank you! And have a great weekend.
As a Halo fan and fellow developer (tho not from the game industry) I just wanna say I appreciate you and everything you do. The late hours at the office, the early mornings and the weekends.
All of you programmers, designers, analysts, testers, team leads, project managers, administrators, system engineers, network engineers, web developers, juniors, seniors, architects and even the guys from management.
All of you, I know how hard you're working to get this game out to us, the fans. I know what you're going through.
I know there are days when you don't feel like doing anything. I know there are days where you're sitting at your desk at 1 pm, sleepy after lunch, with a few Visual Studio tabs open and you're secretly looking up cat pictures on Reddit, trying to look like you're doing actual work stuff. You're sitting there wondering about "What kind of excuse for not coming to work tomorrow would my boss believe?".
I know there are other days where you wake up at 6 am and you start writing code in your head in the car to work because you finally figured out that thing you've been trying to solve since last Tuesday. I know there are days where you can't come up with anything until 4 pm and then the code surge hits you, so you stay in the office until 8 pm and after a while your social life becomes a faint memory and your friends give you flack for never hanging out with them.
I know you analysts draw diagrams and flow charts just to have nobody even take a look at them because by the time you're done half the features and architecture have already changed. You constantly listen to conflicting ideas from various departments and everyone expects you to put it all together, just for most devs to only glance at that document you've painstakingly been working on for a whole week.
I know you system support guys don't get enough respect because you don't fix someone's "Outlook Disconnected" problem the minute they walk into your office. People make fun of you because you ask them to "open a ticket" whenever they run into you on the way to the bathroom and start telling you their little problems. You just want to take a piss and some guys is talking about how he can't connect 8 USB devices to his laptop at once.
I know you sit at meetings day in and day out, listening to people repeat the same thing five times and wonder "What's the point? I'm already behind on this thing I'm working on and here I'm wasting time listening to stuff that I can't even do anything about."
And you testers, I know what you're going through. Everyone outside the studio thinks you have the best job ever. "You play video games all day and you get paid for it". Yeah, in theory. In practice you do the most tedious and boring things all day, filling out bug report forms. And then the devs resent you for returning the bug report they thought they closed back to them.
I know how hard you work and I thank you for it, because what you do will give joy and entertainment to me and countless others one day. When it all comes together and people get their hands on it and enjoy it, all the hard work will pay off.
So know that I and many others appreciate you immensely, even though we don't say it as often as we should.
Thank you! And have a great weekend.