Back to collectionAt USD 21,000, the Cost Questions Come First
Background: A new week began with the studio managing limited resources while continuing to discuss gameplay and technical options. Today: BTC moved back and forth around USD 21,000, while the dollar index reached a twenty-year high. Impact and next steps: Market pressure did not make the technical decision for the studio, but it changed the order of discussion.
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Background: A new week began with the studio managing limited resources while continuing to discuss gameplay and technical options. After the previous week's decline, it was harder to talk only in possibilities; the team wanted to know which costs needed a closer look.
Today: BTC moved back and forth around USD 21,000, while the dollar index reached a twenty-year high. In a routine discussion, some worried that exchange rates and financing conditions would squeeze the budget further. Others argued that halting all technical preparation because of market swings would leave them with the same work to do later. The team decided to list costs it could estimate and conditions that remained uncertain.
Impact and next steps: Market pressure did not make the technical decision for the studio, but it changed the order of discussion. The team would first work out the costs of maintaining the current game and exploring new infrastructure, then consider how much risk it could take. The accounting was still incomplete, so the next step was for people in different roles to state their assumptions.