[QUOTE=MegaJohnny;47020327]"Thanks for helping make the game, see you nerds"[/QUOTE]
This happens a lot more than you might think. Of course you need Huge powerhouse to develop the full game, but when it's complete (or nearly so), you only need a part of the team. Unless the game is such a massive success that they need the full dev team to make a sequel...
[QUOTE=Feuver;47022900]This happens a lot more than you might think. Of course you need Huge powerhouse to develop the full game, but when it's complete (or nearly so), you only need a part of the team. Unless the game is such a massive success that they need the full dev team to make a sequel...[/QUOTE]
That'd work if Elite: Dangerous was anything resembling complete. As it is the only things to do right now are haul, explore 400 billion systems that are nearly identical, and bounty hunt/pirate, and your income plateaus in the middle range such that it'll take ~100 hours of grinding to be able to afford the endgame tier of ships.
The devs have a lot of big plans for planetary surface exploration/combat, walking around inside your ships, and such, but E:D launched out of beta now, not when those features were even being alpha'd. You can't even have a friend join up with you for formalized co-op play yet; that's a (near) future update.
I want to be clear that I'm not hating on E:D, and I expect it to improve as the devs continue to add features to it. But to call it "complete" at this point is just funny, unless you consider "recreation of the original Elite circa 1984 on new technology and nothing more" to be "complete".
[QUOTE=Feuver;47022900]This happens a lot more than you might think. Of course you need Huge powerhouse to develop the full game, but when it's complete (or nearly so), you only need a part of the team. Unless the game is such a massive success that they need the full dev team to make a sequel...[/QUOTE]
I know it's a common practice, it's just a shitty one. There are a lot of passionate developers in the industry and it's sad to see them have to go through such poor job security.
It's not like those 15 people are useless, either - Frontier have already announced the next project that they could have put them to work on.
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