Two years? In case you’re terrible at time keeping, it’s two months away from being THREE years of development.
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If you can’t handle the plebs, don’t take their money. It’s all about communication and these teams purposefully just feed carrots instead of realistic deadlines and timelines just so they can get more money more quickly.
Let’s see....
Interesting point about KoA. Schilling floated that boat and [from what I understand] took a lot of the heat from EA so 38 Studios could keep on trucking. EA was kind of fed up, so didn’t really put the level of marketing and support behind the game that it deserved, essentially JUST covering their own costs.
This.
Any project of any kind *has* to move beyond concept at some point and actually deliver. The problem for designers etc is that it is a lot easier to have high concept ideas, and even to do preliminary work on some of those ideas, than it is to work them through to a cohesive, finished project. There’s a brutal…
star wars the old republic took 3 years. Fallout 4 has been in been in development for 2/3 years. Star Craft 2 took 7.
I work in insolvency and do a bit of corporate restructuring. I cannot tell you how many CEO’s I’ve met who sound EXACTLY like Roberts. The difference is most creditors stop throwing money at people when it becomes clear they can’t handle it.
Belief disconfirmation paradigm. Most of the adamant Star Citizen defenders are invested. They’ve gladly paid sometimes staggering amounts of money today for the promise of a hamburger in the future. As the delays mount and those who are in the outgroup continue to express disbelief and sometimes even mockery, they…
The main issue with Roberts is that he micro manages a lot, which is toxic for any kind of work environment. The only reason why you should micro manage -a little- is if an employee is new and needs specific guidance. However, with an experimented dev team, if you micro manage every single detail (up to the damn…
Oh please there’s no conspiracy. Who’d even spend money to ‘sponsor’ attacks on this game. When ex-employees raise concerns over direction, when it runs over schedule, when it has large funds that seem to have no effect, and when it sells items for a game not near release articles taking question at the game is fair…
Not really. Devs without someone keeping an eye on the finances generally don’t go well. Look at all the Kickstarter fuck ups by people like Schafer (who had to divide the game in half because he splurged the funds) and Molyneux (who completely sunk an entire project).
Well for starters:
Actually he is. He’s a developer yes but he’s not JUST a developer anymore. Fundamentally he’s now a CEO who sets deadlines, production goals, budgets, ect. He’s shown no ability to handle that point of the job. This “game” is up to close to 90 million dollars but it has no limitations, deadlines, or anything. There…
Actually even the biggest budget games usually hit nowhere near the $90 million for Dev costs. Modern Warfare 2 only cost $40-50 million (http://articles.latimes.com/2009/nov/18/bu…) and Destiny, probably the most expensive single game ever made only hit $140 million (http://www.examiner.com/article/destin…)
Remember Duke Nukem
It’s worse... think about it Mass Effect 3’s budget was about 40,000,000.00 probably 60% was development the rest marketing. Making this about 2.5x more expensive then Mass Effect, at the same time the Wither 3’s budget was 25,000,000.00 about 15,000,000 going to development making this close to 6 times more expensive…
It’s in the state it is in BECAUSE it has no publisher. No one to give hard deadlines, no one to say “This has to be done by X date.” It’s freeing early on in a project to be able to experiment, but at a certain point, you need to set your eye on release.
That’s sad. Yet we’ll never implement routine testing for elderly drivers, no matter how many people they run over or farmer’s markets they plow in to.
Lenny Robinson may have dressed up as a superhero, but in my mind this man was a hero.