(05-15-2014, 07:08 AM)berto Wrote: 760 files with over 160,000 lines of code. Any "fundamental rewrite" would require at least one full-time programmer years to accomplish. Redoing the graphics would require so much more. Then there's the issue of a thoroughgoing code rewrite introducing how many bugs? So add in personnel and time for QA testing.
There's little prospect of Matrix/Slitherine recouping their investment.
No, the current development model is working fine. I won't second guess M/S' marketing. 
Yes, I should imagine it would be a team of programmers, and the other people you mention, hence my saying "big resource". Presumably they are putting that level of resource into the new games they bring out, and I would have thought this one would be a far more certain hit than some of the others, given its track record.
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