This. A thousand times, this. Why don’t more “story-driven” games give a better sense of individual character growth with these types of things? Gladiolus should have come back with more than just some ap and level match, we should have gotten him back and had something new, a further upgrade tree unlocked...…

This is the game industry, even the fucking janitors are salaried. No one makes overtime in the games industry unless they’re a contractor.

How much time you work in a day has nothing to do with your SDLC Methodology. Do you realize the post you replied to said “we get work done in 7 hours a day” and your first thought was “that doesn’t sound agile”? That’s part of the problem right there.

I’ll go ahead and say what others have said in less finite terms: the idea of nms being multi-player with the scale of its world and size of its developer is a technical impossibility right now. It is literally not a possible feature the way people are thinking of it.