There is a lot to making a video game and to the video game industry. From what I understand (my BIL has worked at 3 or 4 different companies as a designer over the last 15 years), a lot of problems and bad things can happen in the process of making a big game. If you are not a huge company or even if you are, they cost a lot of money to make and a long time to complete. Occasionally they run out of money (as a company) and get sold to another company. Therefore, all the work they had in process also gets sold along with it (and the artists that did the work and would have made money off of the completed video game(s) get...nothing. Other than the daily salary they earned while working on them). The new company comes in, brings new designers and picks up on the game(s) where others left off. If they complete the game and bring it to market, they get the bonuses, the royalties, all the goodies. Anyways, that is how it seemed to me. That this group picked this game up half completed from some other source, either that or they were just doing the final work that needed to be done. This was obvious to me because video games of this sort take years to make, not months. We only see a few days worth of work, which to me indicated that they were doing the final work that needed to be done to get it finished. All the environments were already done, so why would they need people there designing environments?
To each their own...opinion
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