You should have seen it while it was in PTU. I know a lot of people experiencing crashes, Myself I’ve had a few hours long sessions.

They make space stations. One of the Planets in Stanton is even owned by them. It is called Crusader.

I think most would classify those as expansions despite being under the banner of DLC. See the AK DLC, those crappy missions and costumes are also DLC.

While that’s true to a degree, the eyes are also looking far into the distance as one does typically when giving a presentation in a larger area or theater.

They literally state that it is running real time in CryEngine. Watch the Facial Animation tech video.

You pay for tickets.

This scene was pure CG. The Gary Oldman trailer is all real time.

You should see the demo for the interactive part of the game here at 2:06. That has more natural interactions between humans but isn’t as production finished as the trailer.

I think that most would consider it a huge plus.

I think most people would consider that a huge plus.

I agree, I’m simplifying things. Regardless, if they make no profits (the money raised now might even be budgeted to include future costs), then they aren’t making a loss. Any judgment as to what is happening with all the money they have raised is speculative at best.

The person who quit did it for personal reasons. Rumours are that there was an illness in the family. It should be noted that most businesses have a certain amount of churn. This kind of thing is quite normal in any large studio.

Yup, as the other poster said, they get paid a Salary. They have no shareholders needing dividends or increases in stock value. Generally the largest cost center in Game development is for Labour, which is where the majority of the funds raised will be spent.

I don’t get what is so hard to understand. The number referenced in the Wikipedia page is the total amount of funds raised so far. It is likely to increase further, but it isn’t the cost *so far* to develop the game. It is unknown what they have spent, but it is highly improbable that it is 87m.

You’re quoting Wikipedia...

You’re presuming that this was made as a money-making venture. This isn’t a publisher run project.

I didn’t know that we started to refer to employees as “community”,

Why do they need to heavily market the game? It isn’t like they need to recoup costs.

Listen dude. You really didn’t need to explain to me the benefits of 64 bit coordinates, I know it is important and that it is an invasive operation. They also implemented a encapsulating zone system to handle world streaming, they added a generic event system and revamped the netcode and possibly a lot more…

That is because the original projection was for a less well funded and smaller scoped game. Arguably one could say that he should have made that game, but given that people kept funding it, indicates people are plenty happy with the larger scope (if not the time taken to meet it).