Guild Wars 2

Did it take to make the super adventure box? And how many resources did Anet use that could have been devoted to other struggling areas?

I say this because they made an entire mini game which takes time and resources away from the main game…. then only made it a month long….

That doesn’t make a lick of sense, lets waste all this time and resource on a mini game that lasts a month….

That being said I love the Super Adventure Box, WTB Zone 2. It kinda reminds me of zelda and a number of other games mixed together.

I don’t think the team that makes dungeons worked on this, because enemies have clearly telegraphed attacks, with projectiles that don’t home in on you.

If it took 15 seconds to DPS a Bunny down, THEN I might think this was siphoning developer resources from the PvE team.

The size of the team working on it is unclear, or how long they have worked on it, but judging how the last big jumping puzzle was wintersday, and the guy spearheading this is the one who is largely responsible for both clocktower and wintersday globe, I would say 3 months is a fair guess.

But also from reading between the lines, that is 3 months with a small team, that was essentially required to be self sufficient, ie. they couldn’t “out source” things like asset creation to other teams and were obviously entirely separate from the living world team.

This is speculation, but if I had to guess we are talking about the downsized remnants of the holiday team (which they probably have no pressing need for until halloween, I am guessing). Judging from the things they did for the betas, namely branding and hunger games, I would tend to think that making this probably took less resources than we think and even so they chose to go with minimalistic set of skins so that they could have more content in the box itself.

RebelYell is correct that is many different teams. Such as there are teams working on expansion packs, but they aren’t the same teams that produce the live content. Dungeon teams are also different. There is probably over 300 people working on the content for this game and I would guess only about 50 people worked on this content maybe a bit more.