[quote]So why is it that I seem to remember Bungle saying they built D2 on an entirely new engine to facilitate smoother and more frequent updates while they baloon to 700 plus employees, yet the game essentially looks the same [/quote]
I assumed the minimally viable product launch was because they spent all the time and money developing either a better engine, or better tools to work with their old engine.
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No, that's probably because halfway through development they scrapped almost everything and started over, which they've admitted to doing just like they did with D1, again. I don't believe for a second they crafted a new engine or better tools, I haven't seen one thing to show that they did, and they're crying the same complaints despite adding more employees and additional studios to the project. Everyone seems to want to blame big, bad Activision for everything and I think it's looking more and more like 90% of the blame falls squarely on Bungle. Everyone thought all the Eververse woes were due to pressure from greedy Activision, but we now have a Bungle employee saying they went to Activision and said, "We can't deliver enough content to make money, but we can pump up the shady MTX at Eververse. How about that? Will that do?" These guys bit off more than they could chew and probably couldn't find the right course in daylight with a flashlight.
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It wouldn't even be hard to add meaningful content with the shitty tools. Grifball arenas are rectangles. Sparrow racing could be done using the planetary routes already in place.
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So true. I've seen people make amazing things with very litte. Necessity, or better yet, desperation, is the mother of invention. If I guy can make Guitar Hero in Doom 2016, SOMETHING could have been done by cleverly manipulating assets. There IS a sparrow racing lap in CoO. All they had to do was put a Vex gate at the end so it loops. These guys are pathetic. I know making games is hard, but these guys aren't good at it. The leadership is stumbling around blindly, and they're starting to look like Monty Python's black knight, insisting it's just a flesh wound. Nope, you're in a hopeless state, and dying.