Why is Black Mesa Source taking so long to come out?

Okay, so even if im wrong here (feel free to point it out), why is black mesa source mod taking so long to come out? Its been over six years since it's idea and inception, I mean its not like they're creating a whole new game, all the art/concepts/levels/sounds are there from HL1. What are they waiting on? Coding taking too long? Lazy mappers?

Insight anyone?

I hate to say things like this but it's not called Black Mesa Source anymore. They removed Source from their name because Valve has asked them or something. (it made it look like it was a game from Valve or something)

Anyways, I just think they are busy with their own lifes and don't have much time for Black Mesa. I don't think they'll use anything from half life 1 though, only the ideas of the levels and the storyline ofcourse, but the sounds etc are all newly made probably.

Perhaps they are getting new and new ideas everytime again and they have to delay the release everytime.

But yeah... tbh I am pretty curious as well. last week I had another visit to their site after like 4 months, and there wasn't even a new news post.

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Perhaps its not feasible in a console version so they are procrastinating cause the majority of the monies is in consoles now. I hate to bring up the "Stupid People" slant again but everyone knows that the console market is the McDonalds of gaming. "OVER ONE BILLION SOLD" as it were.

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Well, it can't be a matter of the console because they're making a free mod. They don't have any licensing rights to do such a thing.

But beyond that, you're right. The console market still tends to act like the "McDonalds" of the gaming market.

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Riven said:
They don't have any licensing rights to do such a thing.

Maybe thats the reason! Maybe they want to sell it because they know they have more fans than any mod on MODDB (most likely).

So they are trying to get the licence and that is taking a while(I think)

Ain't getting paid.

When you do something in your spare-time pro-bono and it happens to be a massive project (say, a complete overhaul of a game that took 50 professionals to make) it's going to take a shit-load of time.

Even if you just consider the art requirements ... 6 years is feasible.

A year of work is 260 days (about), times that by 2 (for two years), that's 520 days. Times that by 8 hours (the average work day length) that's 4160 hours of work PER PERSON, for the entire game, (50 people in the company at the time) that's 208,000 Man hours that's in the creation of Half-Life 1. And these were professionals (i.e. they pretty much know what they're doing and how to solve problems, most amateurs do not)

Now, I understand, they're not making a new engine or anything like that, but as far as I know, it took Valve 2 years to make the first HL game, not including building tech.

Even if you gave these guys the benefit of the doubt and said you're going to take just as long to solve the same problems (eliminating the professional vs amateur issue), a team of 10 people (which I don't think they have) would take TEN YEARS to put in the same amount of work! (I'm well aware that this mod will not have the same amount of work put into it as the original HL game, I'm just illustrating a point here)

So ... again ... Six years is not unfeasible at all. They are remaking an ENTIRE game. I would imagine, they're not even done building all the assets let alone through the process of fine tuning the game experience.

I'd like it in a hurry too ... but ... that isn't going to happen unless this was their full time job.

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