This is an extreme example but take Star Citizen for example. This game has been in development for over 10 years. How do they take what they’ve already accomplished and keep it up to date? Especially things like graphics.
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Part of what makes Star Citizen…. what it is, is that they BUILT their own thing. They knew it would have a 5, 8, 10 year dev cycle, and possibly a 20 year support cycle. Part of the reason they did what they did was to build something using their own software to support it. They aren’t making a game that was “built around 2013”, they made a platform first and are making a game around that platform.
TLDR Star Citizen is a poor example of ‘long dev time’ for a game because they did so intentionally.
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