It is not normal, under any circumstances, to take 10+ years to make a game.
Ok, so I point out that it’s two games, give an example of another game that took ten years on it’s own with half the features and you just ignore that like I said nothing. This is not a good faith conversation and it’s honestly really irritating.
Right now we’re looking at a AAA industry that’s taking about 5-6 years to make a game
And no one has made anything close to what SC or SQ42 are offering, because it takes a ton of time and resources. There’s a reason everyone’s blown away by these recent demonstrations and announcements, because it’s a quantum leap. The suggestion that one should expect that to happen in 4-5 years is ridiculous, this isn’t a COD reskin. If that were true we would’ve seen a game like SC already, but no one has attempted it. Even a huge AAA title like RDR2 took 8 years and it’s nowhere near the scale of these games, that’s not a sign it was mismanaged, it’s a sign that RDR2 was really labor intensive to create.
But at least you get the product at the point of sale and not an IOU.
If people are aware they are getting an IOU, that’s not exploitive. It’s not a tech demo, CIG is not angling to “sell the engine and run” or whatever other conspiracies people have come up with over the years. The devs are not on yachts drinking champagne. The money has gone into the games, you can go look at their yearly financial statements; CIG has been delivering on the the game and pledge perks consistently as fast as they develop those features and assets.
And it’s totally fair to criticize someone for choosing to make the wrong game (overscoped) when your massive AAA company doesn’t exist yet and scaling up to meet that need apparently takes over a decade.
It’s not, because we’re all getting exactly what we paid for. And even you get to benefit from the foresight and investment of backers. The very least you can do is stop gaslighting. Every step of the way people have been stepping back their criticism, they’ll say this features not coming and then it does and they drop it off their list, they say it’s a scam and now it’s suddenly “Well of course it’s was never a scam, no one would actually think that.” It’s very frustrating.