Quote from: Hellspawn28 on Apr 04, 2012, 08:38:23 PM
Is this really push back until next year? I'm getting so sick of waiting since we knew about this game since 2006! That was six f**king years ago! By 2013 it will be seven years since we knew about this game and I really have been waiting for a new game to play with my friends for a long time now with AVP being dead for over a year.
A game is only delayed if it is ready and finished.
It is not the case.
I re-write in an other manner what I should have make clear in first place (this is speculation, but I think to be wise enough to say "a part of the problem is due to the following thing"):
SEGA pay GEARBOX to develop, I'm sure nobody has problem to understand this.
[1] You pay a company one time and they hire / put to work hundreds of people to make a one year development with a deadline.
OR
[2] You pay month by month a company depending on your income if you don't have the money now.
SEGA has problem with income.
We know it better than anyone since an Alien RPG got canceled due to the economic crysis.
Plus SEGA announced they were canceling others game to focus on less this year.
I presume they use the way [2] with Gearbox which also explain why in many interviews it is referred to "a small team" working on Colonial Marines.
This guys are paid monthly. To pay them monthly you need to give them money.
I hardly see way [1] works because there would have money to pay for a full year and a bit more a crew of hundreds of people.
Now let's take the developer & Publisher side.
SEGA says: "Next 6 months I'm going to give ten time the money I gave you for this 6 months" which means they could hire a hundred of people this 6 months which will boost the speed of development.
Gearbox tell SEGA "then we won't took 1 year to develop it but 6 months".
PROBLEM, SEGA doesn't make good sales the last 6 months and are forced to pay several developers and ALIENS ain't their priority.
So they give the money to Gearbox to hire 20 men for the next 6 months and the statement saying "it'll be finished this year" becomes instantly FALSE.
At least I don't see how it could be otherwise.