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I'm a businessman and I work in a marketing department, and I know exactly how things are going. There is a budget for a project and if the budget is used up, it will either be published by measures quickly, or it is set. The decision was made in favor of a publication of SH5. The result of this decision is an unfinished SH5 as we all know. Now, where is the cause? Clearly in the distribution of resources. I remember exactly how Ubisoft pushed the GWXTeam to quit GWX 4.0 because GWX4.0 already had contents which should come in SH5. Instead of using the skills of modders so as to keep the budget lean, even modding was suppressed. Tomi99 had already much better prepared detailed diesel interiors than they are in SH5. The modders were already so at another stage of evolution and Ubi ran after. Rather than take advantage of the use of the well-built models of the modder, Ubi built his own far worse models. The budget shrank and for the things you can not see, there was no more money. This includes the Ki, nonfunctional Magnetpistol and many other things which do not work in SH5. Much money was spent for the optics in order for great video clips to attract more customers but the game play was all into the back. The entire budget for the models you could have saved because they were present almost all in a better shape. Then SH5 would also have been a success. Today, outsourcing is in any industry the key for success and the solution for projects with a slim budget. Regards Maddy
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01-13-13, 08:00 AM | #2 |
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?!?!?!?!?! When did they do that? How did they do that?!
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01-13-13, 10:11 AM | #3 |
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I remember when the GW team posted that they would not be fixing SH4.
A sad day, as I loved what they did with SH3 ( still my favorate SH game). What ever happen to all of that talent? |
01-13-13, 10:26 AM | #4 |
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Some of it has moved on to other things. Some of it is still around, but working individually. Some of it is even working with former "opponents" to improve the gaming experience for all of it. There are new and extremely talented teams working on various games, including SH3. I only hope someday they'll apply that same energy to SH4 and SH5. What work is being done on those games is laudable, but not enough. This is not due to lack of talent in the people working on them, but in the lack of people working on them.
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