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[FedericoV]

Faust1979 wrote...

they already have the tools, and the world design and they probably started work on DA2 around the time the first one was finishing up. So it cut the time they needed in half.

In the chat they stated that they begin to work on DA2 before DA:O was published.

[DragonRageGT]

Vandrayke wrote...

Honestly I don't know why this thread is still going. Using conjecture to try and figure out how long a good game "should" take to develop is a little futile to me. Especially when you consider that it IS possible to make time consuming processes more efficient and therefore take less time to complete.

Yeah, sure, right... and then release a fully tested bug free game!

You don't shoot a sequel unless the first movie did well at the box office. Unless you're a crazy mofo like P. Jackson. Then you make all 3 at once! You also only deliver the can to the publishers like 1 hour before the deadline expires! And after you win a Best Movie Oscar for the third part (plus almost all the other Oscar awards actually), you still shoot some extra scenes for an extended edition DVD!

This talk about DA2 being in development before Origins was released... it doesn't sound right. It might be already a project but in fully development? And for the "possibilitty of making time consuming processes more efficient and therefore taking less time to complete"... It was vastly demonstrated with the very fast patching and fixing of all Origins issues. Oh and how 1.03 greatly improved from 1.02 too. And then it only took them some 6 months to release 1.04

[AlanC9]

And for the "possibilitty of making time consuming processes more efficient and therefore taking less time to complete"... It was vastly demonstrated with the very fast patching and fixing of all Origins issues. Oh and how 1.03 greatly improved from 1.02 too. And then it only took them some 6 months to release 1.04

I'm not quite sure what this is supposed to prove.  Bio's not devoting as many people to patch work as would be necessary to fix everything quickly. This statement could still be true with any staffing level for Bio's other projects, up to some sort of hypothetical maximum where you can't add any more staff to a project because you can't coordinate their activities.

[TSamee]

Not about to start speculating on how long it takes to make a "good" game; I'm just hoping that a voiced, fixed-race protagonist (which I'm looking forward to immensely by the way) isn't a way for them to cut corners in terms of content.

[Katya Nadanova]

No. The people at BioWare know what they are doing.

[BomimoDK]

RageGT wrote...

DarkSpiral wrote...

Archereon wrote...

filetemo wrote...

and if you are worried about bioware's financial status... you can be sure dlcs are being sold on daily basis, and even today some copys of me, me2, dao, sonic chronicles and even jade empire may be still getting purchased.

And then there's digital downloads. I'm sure bioware's monthly income is of several millions of dollars

Which EA is siphoning away most of in hopes of mitigating their hundred million dollar a year losses.

Proof, or at least evidence.  Or GTFO.

Why don't you check this i/o telling other to GTFO?

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=ERTS

I'm no economist but Net Income Avl to Common (ttm):-347.00M doesn't look that good.

EA had 1.08 billion Income in 08, their revenue is 5 billion. i think that'll slide, don't you?

[Realmjumper]

Eh I just want to get my word out to Bioware please don't release DA 2 if it's not ready. Maybe they are able to make the game more quickly thanks to advances in the engine like in Mass Effect 2. Where they were able to build levels more quickly and ont he fly.



Also since ME 2 is done they might have more people working on DA 2 then switch the team to work on ME 3. This is pure speculation from my point of view.



Do not rush this game Bioware it will be your downfall if it is a buggy mess.

[Phoenixblight]

Realmjumper wrote...

Eh I just want to get my word out to Bioware please don't release DA 2 if it's not ready. Maybe they are able to make the game more quickly thanks to advances in the engine like in Mass Effect 2. Where they were able to build levels more quickly and ont he fly.

Also since ME 2 is done they might have more people working on DA 2 then switch the team to work on ME 3. This is pure speculation from my point of view.

Do not rush this game Bioware it will be your downfall if it is a buggy mess.

Mass Effect Design team is in a completely different area than the Dragon Age Design team so unless Bioware/EA is paying to shift teams back and forth which seems silly especially in this economy now a days. Mass Effect team is busy making the 3rd installation. 


Also its been said from Bioware that they were working on it after they were finished with Dragon Age and they gave it to Edge of Reality to make the console port. So figure by November the core team moves on to the sequel and Awakening while a smaller group works on bugs and fixes. The game has been in Development for more than 2 in half years.  Which Mass Effect 2 was on the same development time table and look at that game absolutely phenomenal.