Problems with Destiny

by MrPadraig08 , Steel City, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 08:45 (3987 days ago) @ Reconcilliation

But, pre-alpha is also bad - they only have a year until launch. The time for pre-alpha should've been a little further back than right now. Destiny's been in the works for how long? Concepts since ODST in 2009; finished with Halo in 2010. Let's say a year to transfer from support of Halo Reach to development of Destiny - that's still two years of development to still be in a pre-alpha stage.

That doesn't sound right to me.

IIRC, they've been working on this puppy since ODST (pre-planning and such) so it's more like 4 years pre-dev and dev time. To be fair, I'm not surprised pre-alpha took this long, they're architecting on platforms they've never developed for, building a , what has been described as, huge MMO sized world(s), and as well as story they will no doubt have plans for constantly updating this persistent world.

They have come a long way, but this game definitely sounds like a much bigger task than putting out a AAA game in the past. In a way, development never ends, especially if this turns out to be updated and persistent as they want it to be.