Poll of the Day > Does anyone know how much time a video game dev has

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To complete a game before the official release date? They of course need time to mass produce and ship out the completed version of a game, so how much time before an official release date is there usually a deadline for any more changes to the final version of a game?

As much time as they want.
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Ive noticed that most games take about 2 years. Give or take.

Some notable exceptions are Elder Scroll series, Borderlands series and Diablo series(Lol of course).
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Zedonra posted...

To complete a game before the official release date?

Whatever they have been given. Hell Ubisoft delayed Watch Dogs Legion to give it more time so.
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Eleven months and fourteen hours
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Zedonra posted...

To complete a game before the official release date? They of course need time to mass produce and ship out the completed version of a game, so how much time before an official release date is there usually a deadline for any more changes to the final version of a game?

there's no universal time duration TC. thats a good & bad thing to developers/publishers
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Iconclast, a 16bit metroidvania type game was made by one guy (with the odd little thing from others) and took something like 10 years

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blackhrt posted...

there's no universal time duration TC. thats a good & bad thing to developers/publishers

This, Dragon Age Origins was in development for 7 years I believe, and then there's DNF too taking over a decade after changing hands. Publishers also have a hand in development time, for example using Dragon Age again after buying Bioware EA forced them to shit out DA2 within a year after releasing the first.

Zedonra posted...

is there usually a deadline for any more changes to the final version of a game?

ya on release. day 1 patch and [paid] dlc


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I think the topic question is something.
Like, how long before a game is released, is it actually done?
That's what I got from it. At least it makes me wanna know.
I know these days games come out with patches so it's a bit different than ten years ago+.

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It depends. However, you have games that cut things because they don't have the development time or resources which helps them hit deadlines.

HornedLion posted...

Ive noticed that most games take about 2 years. Give or take.

Based on what?
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I think it's different with modern digital games. If a game is physically published (you can buy it in a box on a disc), then yeah, there's going to be some overhead there and it will take some amount of time (I assume weeks or months) to get the game physically published, and the version that's on the disc will have been from a month or two ago or something (this is why there's day 1 patches). If a game is published digital only, and the dev has things setup the right way, they can publish the current stable version every week or every day.

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