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Angelus said:

Ryuu96 said:

It's an MMO bro, 7 years in development is absolutely nothing for an MMO. Final Fantasy XIV development began in 2005 and it released in September 2010, it took 5 years to make, and it was released in a horrific state, which resulted in them soft-rebooting the entire thing and adding even more development time. World of Warcraft was in development for 4-5 years.

This is back when your average "AAA" took about 1-2 years to make, not 4-5 like they do now, MMOs have ALWAYS been significantly longer in development than your average non-MMO AAA. So now when your average non-MMO AAA takes about 4-5 years to make, it is expected that MMOs would also significantly increase in development time, 7-10 years for an MMO would not be out of the ordinary for an MMO today.

There was absolutely nothing weird about how long Zenimax's MMO was in development for.

It's dumb to cancel the MMO that would have carried Zenimax for the next 10 years as The Elder Scrolls Online was winding down.

Fuck a release....how about an announcement? A teaser? Closed alphas or pre-alphas to get player feedback? Word of even internal demos or anything to demonstrate this is morphing into a real, tangible product? Games these days get announced just to help hire for projects, and this game had nothing. 

How many years would you be willing to fund a project before it, apparently, even remotely begins to take shape into something I can maybe foresee then spending further marketing budget on it, and then selling it? If 7 years to doesn't get me a reveal trailer, I'm sorry, but that's a money hole if you ask me

Then all you guys moan when they announce something early!!! Lmao.