Creating the backstory most likely started in 2003. On a napkin or something like that.
Personally I think the bulk of the programming work for the prototype was done in 2012, because the company doing that programming was founded no sooner than April 2012. That April 2012 date is a verifiable fact.
So .. what you declare "obvious" is just your personal opinion. Other people have other opinions. Opinions based more on verifiable facts than speculation and guesswork.
Have fun
Faced with a direct quote, that's the best weaseling out you can do for them?
They either started in 2011 (according to Freyermuth), or they were lying. Not really any other way.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
Faced with a direct quote, that's the best weaseling out you can do for them?
They either started in 2011 (according to Freyermuth), or they were lying. Not really any other way.
Working on the story may have started much sooner. Could be even 2003, right after Freelancer was finished. Its not that much work to collect ideas in your head.
The programmers themselves were/are in a company. A company that was founded in April 2012. Freyermuths' work as a lawyer may have started in 2011, as he most likely was the one setting up that company and getting it registered. In Austria that does take a few months - i am not sure how long it takes in the USA. But he for sure was not the guy creating a prototype in CryEngine.
>>> Not really any other way. >>> There are many other ways. You just do not want to see them. Let alone walk them. You are even complaining that others walk them ;-) Which does not interfere with you walking your way in any way. But still, that these other people walk the other way out of their own free will seems to bother you enough to have posted hundreds of posts about it.
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Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
They either started in 2011 (according to Freyermuth), or they were lying. Not really any other way.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.