Friday Development Update - September 16, 2011

[Frequent_Flyer]

Originally Posted by Chivas

I doubt there is very much procrastination going on the development. What they are doing now will make a huge difference on whether or not they stay in business. Staying in business will mean atleast another ten years of addons and paychecks.

With no evidence to the contray, I doubt they are working very efficiently. Staying in business has more to do with getting the " on line " population increased signifiantly. The folks on the fence in the game. Thre is no where near the interest in COD at this stage in the development vs. IL-2 1946.

Yet it is light years ahead in every meaningful measurement, Damage model, landscape, aircraft modeling , cockpit modeling etc.. From what I can discern an enormous amount of "unimplemented" potential. This is a marketing/public relations function.

[Chivas]

The original series game engine had the luxury of being finished and fine tuned before release. The new series is far more complicated in every way and has taken considerably longer to finish than first imagined. I'm sure there is alot of blame to go around, but when your dealing with something this complicated its very easy to have huge delays with even the most efficient developers.

[csThor]

Well, the past record of meeting "tentative dates" is not spectacular, contrary to the flak Maddox Games got for not meeting those dates. I can understand why Ilya doesn't bother with much setting new dates when it all seems to come down to Murphy's Law every single time.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by csThor

Well, the past record of meeting "tentative dates" is not spectacular, contrary to the flak Maddox Games got for not meeting those dates. I can understand why Ilya doesn't bother with much setting new dates when it all seems to come down to Murphy's Law every single time.

Yes, but working as a manager in the software development business myself I can tell you that very few companies would accept the constant problems with delivery dates that they have. I guess they really should work on their development methodology, focus on core functionality in iterations where done is done and stop gold plating silly details Easy to say "from the other side of the fence"