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Originally Posted by virre89

Were you born in a bunker?

No, I wasn't born in bunker.

I mean, you can't start involving random people into your projects and company's. Seriously would you start hiring random people if you were running a business.

You bet I would, if I were in Oleg's shoes.
The mods on the AAA site, esepcially the map mods,i.e."the slot" are better than any map from Oleg crews.

Just some simple factors:

# You can't hire random people across the world
# You need to know them , know their skill , know their dedication
# You need serious communication
# You need them to live were you run your company
# Risk of leeks, security reasons etc etc ffs

You don't need to know the people, and it doesn't matter where they are.
The results speak for themselves. Oleg has used 3rd party stuff, and scrutinized it. It is my understanding "Slovakia" is all done by 3rd party.

This is just a few arguments but good enough to not hire random people for serious projects within company's. Let's not forget about the fact that the game industry is a billion business and is nothing you play around with like mods.. Serious amount of money and effort is put into this.

If people want to help and do it for free or whether Oleg pays that is his business.

A good example of third party stuff. The Scott that heads up the BOB II WOV lives in the North East USA, Buddye the AI programmer lives in South Texas, and I've visited with other members of the dev team, one lives in a small town close to Oslo, Norway.