Benjamin Bones said:
Shaxx said:
Further inspection of titles that took longer than 10 years to make, how many of them turned out successful/enjoyable and did not in some fashion spell the end of it's franchise or the studio that made it? The numbers here are not in TaleWorlds' nor Mount and Blade's favor.
I hate to admit it but he's not wrong.
However, I think the worst possible scenario that could come of this situation is a game that is essentially Warband with updated graphics and few more things to do than the overly repetitious world of vanilla WB. Granted that a decade in development for "Warband Plus" is a ridiculous idea to entertain; that potential reality would still mean that this game would be out and available to modders....
And wouldn't that in and of itself make it all worth while?
For TaleWorlds, economically? No, had they released Warband 2 with half the features of Bannerlord in 2014 and Bannerlord in 2018 with Bannerlord 2 a year in development, yes, same amount of work but two paydays and a third in progress.
That is unless TW gets financial compensation for game development from the Turkish government, then never releasing it is potentially very worth while for them... but they say they don't, then again they also say that development began in 2012, which is a lie... And in Turkey, at least as far as the government is concerned lying and gas-lighting are business as usual, not exactly the greatest of examples for it's enterprises to follow.
For us the end consumer I would say sure it would be worth it in some small fashion if they could pull off a release, it's not like we've spent these 10 years doing literally nothing else but waiting for the game, and the activities we did instead of playing a well managed release timeline of M&B titles had to have some value... albeit we wish at least some of it were spent on Warband 1.5 *ahem* Bannerlord.
The question is, will a Bannerlord release ever come to pass at all? It is in my opinion still an open question, at this rate either game development is an end unto itself financially or an addiction chasing perfection they cannot shake. Something will give eventually, you would think, the query being will the game be in a release candidate form when that happens or will it become vaporware because it isn't.
That might sound preposterous with open beta on the way but look at how many games never leave early access on Steam and just fester and die.