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They might actually be printing discs, though. Nowadays, multi-gigabyte day-one patches are commonplace, so all the disk is for is shipping art assets cheaply (and supporting legacy retail sales). So as long as the art assets are 95% done, that’s good enough to “go gold” and start printing.

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Nothing says “We don’t give a shit; you gave us your money” quite like having to wait a couple of hours for an update immediately after installing a game.

This is a weird logic I don't understand.

People who don't give a shit don't crunch after the game has gone gold to make last minute improvements and fix more bugs. People who care do.

This has nothing to do with the programmers hustling to get the game done and everything to do with their superiors.

As if the superiors punched out and went home and told the engineers to keep going and fix more bugs.

Software estimates are hard and superiors don't magically have more insight into when the game will actually be finished. It's all a gamble and sometimes you have to postpone the release or ship a buggy product.

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