| The Fury said:
This said, game development seems to be getting longer for some reason, you'd think with increase in technology, programmes would also make it easier to develop certain things too... oh well. |
Games have increased exponentially in complexity over the past couple decades (along with consumer expectations). Technology is advancing, yes. But the human ability to create content can only go so far. Artists and programmers can only pump out stuff so fast. And of course, this complexity means that more stuff can go wrong with a game, necessitating considerably more testing. Which is why big publishers throw more money at game development to get things out in a timlier fashion. But then we run into the problem of games having to sell more copies just to break even, etc. We need to either expect that games will continue to take longer to create, or we have to curb our expectations on things like graphics and other aspects that increase game development time.
