What astounds me most is the people who keep talking about this game (with the scope that it has now) should somehow have been done, finished, polished, and released by now.
I mean, do they have zero understanding of development time?
Look at games like GTA, Elder Scrolls, Witcher 3, etc. These types of games usually take 5 or more years to make.
Star Citizen didn't start full production until 2013, roughly 3 1/2 years or so.
The game is a larger and more complex game to make then any of the others I mentioned above.
So why do people keep harping on the time it's taking or acting like it should somehow magically be done?
I mean I can understand some people who wanted the single-player game first like originally planned, but some people expect the full game , the whole scope that's changed to somehow be done or nearly complete within the time frame that's even shorter then games like GTA. It just astounds me.
From reading the article it sounds to me like there was a rocky start and some trying times, with Chris having a vision and wanting to keep control of htat vision and not let other people steer him away from things. Some people work that way, some people don't like it, but they are free to leave if that's the case.
It's like making movies. You have some great directors that give actors a lot of leeway, let them ad-lib lines, take in the actors and other peoples suggestions and change the movie up.
Then you have directors that want it their way, say the line the way it's wrote, no deviation. A lot of these directors are known for being difficult and pushing the actors hard (IE Francis Ford Coppola, Cameron, Herzog, etc).
My props, for sure.
