ALTIt is determined by how far over funds we’re projected to go and the way a lot budgeted dev time we’ve bought left. If our (burn charge) is trending means too far over funds to feasibly make our launch, the reply is normally “cancel the sport”. On uncommon events, when the celebs align and the proposal is accepted, the reply is “get the folks funding the challenge to inject further funding for growth time”. Requesting further funding should be justified, and it’s completely attainable that the extra funding request will get denied and the challenge finally ends up both having to make due or will get cancelled.
ALTThe commonest reply, nonetheless, is “Start reducing options and content material from the bottom precedence upward till we’re again on funds”. Even when we handle to get further funding, this can be very widespread to chop stuff on high of that to assist reassure the writer that we’re doing our half to manage the scope of the challenge. If we’re fortunate, generally these decrease precedence reduce options and content material could be repurposed into DLC later relying on how a lot further 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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