No, I am going to suggest that POSSIBLY (and this is ALL speculation on very little fact as to the why): up until GC PD severely underestimated the demand for damge and didn't want to deal with the licensing issues for what they mistakenly thought was a minor issue.
But that still suggests it would take six months to negotiate what should be, judging by the rest of the industry, a relatively boilerplate contract with the manufacturers, and also that it would take six months despite having worked out agreements with Ferrari and Mercedes in less than one month. They don't need to negotiate with manufacturers consecutively, you know.
It seems far more likely to me that damage was always intended to be for all cars, possibly save for a few stubborn manufacturers, but the damage implementation is simply taking longer than anticipated*. To get back your analogy, rather than being surprised people didn't want to eat raw cordon bleu, Chef Kaz didn't realize they would take 45 minutes to simply
prepare, having never made them himself.
*Or not, since we never even had a release window until two weeks ago.
Or possibly KY wanted his top level of damage on all cars and when he coudln't meat the xmas release date Sony wanted (for obvious marketing reasons) drew the line somewhere which is why he mentioned race cars and sets likely in this case even referred to which race cars and maybe some race cars would be left out of damage as well as standard.
Again, with procedural modeling, there's no reason to leave anything outand in fact, it's
more work to leave certain cars outand licensing simply doesn't take this long to negotiate.
The only distinction between race cars and standard cars is the former can have parts ripped off, necessitating extra 3D modeling, which
does take time. That's why only race cars were going to get the "good damage."
Either (any) way, 2 months of working on damage in 5 years of dev seems irresponsibility low.
Again, you seem to be forgetting about code branches.
Yes, the build we saw at TGS represents two months of effort, but that doesn't mean they'd only spent two months working on damage. He specifically said what was shown at TGS was an old build. Sure, it's possible they'd only worked on damage for two months and a day, but it's also possible they'd been working on it for six months or more, but those more advanced builds were still too glitchy for a public showing. In fact, didn't the post-TGS interviewers say they were shown damage that was far more impressive than what
we've seen thus far? That alone tells you they've already spent far more than two months work on it.
heck half way through one I have to open the thread in a nother window just to look back and remember what I was saying!
Sometimes I do that too.
SP was delyed so often you forgot about it.
