[mrguyorama]

>So they have an excuse for the sluggish development pace.

Except it shouldn't take almost 1000 people more than ten years to make a single player space game.

[TheRoque]

I would say it can take an infinite amount of time, if you have bad management, scope creep (or no defined scope at all), high turnover, obsoleted core technologies, and if people give you money even if you don't do anything anyways