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I would suggest that the vast majority of commercial games still trend very heavily towards the "done" model. Maybe a few patch releases over a year or two, but
by catach 4y ago
I would suggest that the vast majority of commercial games still trend very heavily towards the "done" model. Maybe a few patch releases over a year or two, but nothing like the Open Source model where the energy invested is constant.
You allude to the reasons why though, with the box release requirement--though that's a part of the greater economic reasons.
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- account42 4y ago> I would suggest that the vast majority of commercial games still trend very heavily towards the "done" model. Maybe a few patch releases over a year or two, but nothing like the Open Source model where the energy invested is constant. I wish that was the case because then you as the player could be done with paying for the game once. Instead, the current trend is to make games into live services that have continuous development funded with continuous revenue streams. Moch more predictable for the companies to see their revenue slowly go up or down than invest in a completely new game that might be a hit or might flop completely.
- AaronM 4y agoAnd there are a fair number of open source recreations that keep games alive like OpenTTD (Transport Tycoon Deluxe) and OpenRCT (Roller Coaster Tycoon)