But making this decision, why now? Why am I hearing about it now? Why do you make these decisions? It seems late.
TL;DRThe decision came from a recent Monday leadership meeting where production's worst-case estimate showed pulling from Game Dev would put the end-of-year 3.4 release at grave risk.
We do our Monday morning leadership meetings, and in the most recent meeting, basically production came back, crunched the numbers and said, look, if we go from Game Dev into 3.4, based on if we come into the worst case scenario and it takes us four weeks to stabilize that, we're going to have no time to get testing and PTU and Evocati and be out for December 20th. So basically everyone came back on the development side and said, look, if we do this, we'll be in grave risk of missing a 3.4 release at the end of the year on December 20th.
So it's either no 3.4 for me or 3.4 light.
Yes. But we're a big company and there's a lot of things going on. And we have better tools now to look at how long it takes us and estimate trajectories and make decisions in soon enough time to not have everything, for instance, miss getting out 3.4 at the end of the year.