It is dependent upon how far over price range we’re projected to go and the way a lot budgeted dev time we’ve acquired left. If our [burn rate] is trending manner too far over price range 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 venture to inject further funding for improvement time”. Requesting further funding have to be justified, and it’s solely attainable that the extra funding request will get denied and the venture 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 price range”. Even when we handle to get further 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 venture. If we’re fortunate, generally these decrease precedence lower options and content material will 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, doubtless by no means to be seen once more.
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