Money and Development Time

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30 was initial investment. He reupped that later. They probably earned roughly that amount back, but that doesn't matter, cause they've also been burning through money by constantly hiring people. Alpha2 release will most likely pay for another year or two of development, so game release in 25-26 would probably put them at 0 profit, but the release itself will most likely give them a huge inflow of cash.

p.s. can't wait for Jahlons comments on the "army" part of the OP.

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Except you can already play SC, even if it's very barebones and obviously has a ton of problems. In other words, Ashes needs to release their alpha2 and keep its servers up for as long as possible to even catch up to SC's stage of development. And with the current pace there's a chance that we'll see Alpha2 in late 23 if not early 24.

And I thiiiiink that's roughly the same time of development that took SC to release their playable version of the game? Not sure though, so if someone knows how long it took SC to have a playable version that most people could just log into and play. Oh, and SC has had free demos in the past too. Doubt Ashes will provide those.

Now SC obviously had waaay more money, so they should've probably finished already if they didn't creep the fuck out of their scope, but iirc they made their own engine and a ton of other stuff, so there's an additional difficulty there.

In other words, Ashes right now seems much more like a scam than SC does, though I do not consider either of them to be scams.