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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8744714" data-attributes="member: 18">Oh dear, really?I said business model, and yes, the business model of a game is almost always determined in pre-production, and usually only changes if something goes very seriously wrong.I didn't assume 3  and 5 & 6 are the same point twice expressed differently. The business model doesn't have to be finalized, it's true. It's just that virtually every project that doesn't finalize it in pre-production runs way over time and budget, because they have to make major feature changes later on to accommodate the new business model.LOL.I mean, that is not even an argument. If you could just throw money at contractors to get things done, well what a wonderful world we'd live in, I'll just say that.How long exactly do you think it takes to develop videogames with the sort of high-res art they're using here? Because it's typically 3-5 years, with huge teams (often many hundreds of people, sometimes over a thousand). Obviously it's going to be less demanding with little animation and so on, but it's still an extremely serious task which is going to require a lot of artists working full-time, for a very long time. You can afford to hire more 3D and texture artists and fewer riggers and animators, at least.Here they appear to have a very small team, with a very ambitious project, a brand new engine, and an uncertain business model. You're welcome to assume that's going to be done in two years, no probs. But I think that's probably pretty optimistic lol.</blockquote>

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