[mr_crankypants]

Teams were so much smaller.

Ultima IV was about as big-budget as a video game got. Here are the credits for the DOS version: https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/ultima-iv-quest-of-the-av...

19 people, total, for the original development and production on the Apple II version, plus the PC, Atari and Amiga ports.

[kbumsik]

> 19 people, total

Still it was much smaller. Witcher 3 dev team is about 250.

[mr_crankypants]

According to https://www.gamespot.com/articles/this-is-how-much-the-witch..., 240 is just the number of in-house staff. The full count of people who worked on the project came to more like 1,500.