Quote Originally Posted by Randis View Post
cosmetic changes and beautification should be rather fast but coding for such a game can take a very long time, especially if some programmers are replaced and the documentation is poor (i don't think it is, such amateur mistakes would rather surprise me as SE has a lot of exp).
With a larger team some things can be done faster, some however slower. every change needs to be discussed, assigned to the corresponding people, developed and then tested both on PC and PS3. everything must be designed so it would run on PS3, development of a MMO RPG for multiple platforms is more complex than PC only.
End-user can only speculate, nothing more. Only the programmer can estimate the time they will need for coding and then you have to add the time for testing, fixing, testing and so on
Fair enough.

My next question is should a huge company like SE be selling us a game that still has 6 months(from Sept 30th till now) or more of development left before most would consider it beta worthy?