I think a good question to ask then is 'how many people do you need?' Is it necessary to have 100-200 artists on a project? 38 Studios had about 75 Cintiq's, and given all of them were being used it would lead me to believe that there was about that number of artists on the team. Now this is a company that was being…
Yeah if I came across as if I was saying this would be how MMOs of the future would be built, then I didn't word things properly because that was never the intent. The intent was to answer where I think things are heading in general which is basically an 'indie 2.0' approach. Do I think that studios at physical locations…
I was looking at the 38 Studios auction today, and it caused me to think quite a bit about this topic. First of all, holy shit there's a lot of extremely expensive stuff involved, a lot of which you wouldn't even think of. Every table, every chair, all the appliances from refrigerators and mirowaves to refreshment…