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Originally Posted by Kiingpin
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so sick of the years away from launch on all these games and nothing has come out for what 10 years?
we have more money and computing power then ever yet games come out even slower
get funding, hire more indian kids and get to work. if it takes longer then a year to release you are trying to do too much content, get your project out there and start earning money
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It's a variant or consequence of "Wirth's Law" in practice. As technology progresses, games (and all sorts of software more generally) are becoming more and more complicated at a rate faster than development tools are improving. Hence development cycles take longer and longer. This reality has undoubtedly harmed the MMORPG genre specifically since such games have become too expensive to build quickly and expect a reasonable return, and too slow to build cheaply for most investors to tolerate. Concepts like Unity were intended to help solve these problems but haven't yet made more than a modest dent.
Danth