major bugs and glitches that should have priority over other things.

[Survive_the_Apoc 10]

Not true, they take much longer just aren't open to public testing. This game isn't taking any longer, we are just allowed to watch as it takes shape. total of 3-4 years is an ok development time for a game. I read somewhere that Chernarus took 5 years to build.....5 years! :)

 

They have stripped so much from arma, most recently mouse acell. By the end of alpha I don't think much will be left at all. Its like gutting an engine and rewriting it.

 

They are also heavily focusing on updating the engine and moving it forward. Pulling out the renderer to make way for better direct x. Also trying to get 64bit servers going. Better multi-core support, its all being addressed. That's about as core as it gets, and is very keyed in on bringing the engine forwards, removing some inherent flaws. Not to mention they are still adding items and mechanics in the meantime

 

There plan seems good to me....update engine, other team works on zeds, all the time adding content that will function even when the engine updates are applied....patience is key, 4 months in is just to early for the whole "loosing faith" talk  :)

But even some of that is besides the point. It still doesn't excuse the chaotic nature in which they just features of function. What we'll end up with is 50 awesome ideas in this game, all of which work at 60% capacity. How long until they get to a point where they find out that some of their ideas go beyond this rebuilt engine of theirs and we get the "well, we've decided to rebuild this on the Arma III engine so we can implement features the RIGHT way." 

[scriptfactory 620]

Not true, they take much longer just aren't open to public testing. This game isn't taking any longer, we are just allowed to watch as it takes shape. total of 3-4 years is an ok development time for a game. I read somewhere that Chernarus took 5 years to build.....5 years! :)

 

You know this speaks more about how bad the BI team is at map building, right? There is no reason that building a map the size of Chernarus should take 5 years.

But you are correct with the fact that game development usually takes some time. Normally, though, by the Alpha stage the game is very close to begin "feature complete", even if a lot of those features are just placeholders.