Is There a New RoadMap News For Winter, Yet?

"Amapola76;c-18006550" wrote:

"DaWaterRat;c-18006037" wrote:
I don't know about supply chain per se, but I know they farm out some of the modeling to groups in China, which was certainly hard hit and nailed down for a while. So if they had to do more modeling in house, and an object takes about three days (per the Extra Life stream Artist Q&A) that certainly would be a kind of supply disruption.

Also, while I don't know how creative your industry is, my observation is that group projects involving a lot of creatives benefit not so much from an office per se, but being able to take time to see what other people are doing and offer unplanned feedback - as well as get it. Something that's considerably more difficult when working remotely from each other. If everyone is working remotely, then there isn't as much chance for that sort of group creative energy to figure things out.

On top of that, some Sim Gurus have school age kids who were also doing remote or hybrid learning, which the parents would have also helped with. And most of those kids are just now able to get their first dose of the vaccine. SimGuruGeorge's kids I think are both too young even for that (based on the little blonde head with the bow that was sitting on his lap for a little bit during the extra life stream... I think that's the older one, the younger one having been born right around when Snowy Escape came out, because he'd said in that stream that he might have to leave abruptly.)

Fair point about creative industries and group projects. But trust me, I don't need anyone to tell me anything I don't already know about working from home with kids and remote learning (although if we're being honest, both personal experience and substantial amounts of academic research tell me that this tends to have far more of an impact on working moms than working dads; I would be pleasantly surprised if the male devs on the TS4 team were actually doing the bulk of at-home active parenting during the day, and if they are, that definitely makes them rare birds... although that would be awesome, and I'd happily accept delays in all kinds of industries if that became the norm). In any case, that's not unique to the gaming industry, it's something we've all had to deal with.