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Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (30 children)

I'm not in software dev but 8 years seems a long time to make a game like this. I love the game and play it daily, but it's not that deep. It's has 5 maps and 20 guns and 2 kinds of enemies. That doesn't doesn't seem like an 8 year dev time.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Likely a lot of time was spent iterating and experimenting with different ideas, testing out concepts, tweaking, etc. Haven't played the game but I do work as a software developer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Probably, especially if you consider that the first Helldivers game was a top-down shooter.

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