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Everwild is now is pre production with a team of 50 people (and growing) including Art director of Sea of Thieves and Viva Pinata
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Check out Black and White, Populous or From Dust.You basically have control of the games land, characters or whatever.
This raises my interest a whole lot.
In pre-production with 50 people?! When is this thing going to come out then? 2025? I really expected it to be by a bigger team at this point. :/
This game looks amazing but I have literally no idea what it is or how you play. Hoping for the best!
Guessing it's in a similar position that Sea of Thieves was in when it was announced... So 2021 at the earliest. Possibly 2022.
Game looks fantastic but pre production? I thought Mr. Xbox said they weren't going to show games far out from release anymore. Perhaps it's being developed quickly due to it being a somewhat smaller project?
I gues this also means what was shown was just target renders and not actual game footage which is really disappointing
I gues this also means what was shown was just target renders and not actual game footage which is really disappointing
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I suspect the approach is shifting.
A) they have more stuff to show off now, so Everwild won't need to be trundled out every time for 2/3/4+ years, a la Crackdown 3.
B) they feel more secure in the long-term, I.e. less likely to cancel stuff.
It was a major problem before due to delays and cancellations and a relative lack of other stuff to show off.
So the trailer is likely "target" footage, hopefully they get there as it looks real interesting. Is it next gen?
They were pretty clear about this being at a very early stage in development.
50 people sounds about right.
So now I'll watch this a few more times, put in to the back of my mind and forget about it until E3 2021.
Expect a release Spring 2022.
50 people sounds about right.
So now I'll watch this a few more times, put in to the back of my mind and forget about it until E3 2021.
Expect a release Spring 2022.
Welp. There goes our hope for Rare releasing a game every two years. Seems like they're still on the every 4 years train. :(
Recruitment has to have been a big part of why it was announced now. Now they get to mention Everwild by name in their job listings.
Well. 2020 was always a pipe dream imo. I was hoping for a launch window release on Scarlett in early 2021, but I guess that was too optimistic.
Yeah, I'm a little surprised too. I thought it would be a team of at least 80 people by now. I'd say this is a 2021 game tho.
I believe that was for games that they *know* are 2½ to 3 years from release. Even then it wasn't a hard rule, just something he talked about when signing exclusives.
Announcing a game while it's in pre-production is such a Microsoft E3 '14 thing to do.
I'll never get why publishers announce their games so early on, outside of pure desperation. Or pleasing the shareholders on a short term basis I guess.
I'll never get why publishers announce their games so early on, outside of pure desperation. Or pleasing the shareholders on a short term basis I guess.
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I don't mind Phil at all but when he's in the PR role he's exceptionally adept at saying what people want to hear.
Personally I don't mind early reveals. It's all part of the fun. The only danger is that you end up with fewer announcements in future.
I love early reveals. Don't know why people are so against it. Movies do it all the time.
fair enough. So then we should expect more early reveals then I guess. Good to know
Sounds like this game's been in incubation for all these years while the main focus was Sea of Thieves with all its expansions. Wonder if Everwild will be bigger and more content filled than SoT.
SoT is pretty filled with content now tbh. The amount of stuff they've added since launch is exceptional. Story campaigns, PvP modes, QoL updates, timed events, etc.
I expect Rare to move more and more of their SoT team over to the Everwild team in 2020 and beyond. They'll want to ramp up their staff to 100 or more when in full production. They'll probably use a decent amount of support studios.
