During the MMO rush due to WoW successes there were lots like Tabula Rasa, Star Wars Galaxies [1]. Curt Schilling was even part of one that entangled Rhode Isla

During the MMO rush due to WoW successes there were lots like Tabula Rasa, Star Wars Galaxies [1]. Curt Schilling was even part of one that entangled Rhode Island state funds at 38 studios for Copernicus. [2] Cheyenne Mountain, where I worked for a while on Unity games, unfortunately never released Stargate Worlds MMO and burned through 10s of millions, I think 60-70 million by the end. The main problem was warring design teams, new tech not ready for primetime and builds not happening early and often and really Unreal wasn't the best for large MMOs back then (UE3). A recent article "Confessions of an Unreal Engine 4 Engineering Firefighter" highlights not using continuous builds as being a big problem in failed games [3] > Make Builds and Test Them: Imagine a game has a 2-year development deadline. Imagine the first playtest happening 1 year and 9 months into development. This happens. Make regular builds of your game and playtest them, even starting from week one. If you are a serious game development company, you probably should have an automated build pipeline of some sort. Pro-tip: Automation is cheaper and more effective than human labor. Large games like this are generally smarter today taking it to market with smaller teams and getting funding and alpha/beta feedback all along the way. Fortnite for instance has been in development with available builds for Epic using Unreal Engine 4 almost since inception and became a better game for prototyping/early and often releases. [1] https://www.pcgamer.com/the-biggest-mmo-failures-in-history/ https://www.pcgamer.com/the-biggest-mmo-failures-in-history/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_Studios https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_Studios [3] https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-engine-4-engineering-firefighter/ https://allarsblog.com/2018/03/16/confessions-of-an-unreal-e...