"yooo we delaying for about 5 years"
30 years pass
"yoooo we delaying another decade"
50 years pass
"yooooo i'm typing this from my death bed, we delaying another century, game'll come out someday for sure tho"
the dev team dies
1000 years later
"yoooooo my descendants are typing this live from a ouija board, early access will release soon"
big crunch occurs billions of years later
the big bang occurs again
back to present day
the stars align
"yooooooo we releasing for real this weekend!!"
about 2 minutes later
"nvm we releasing in another year"
the universe dies and remakes itself hundreds of times over
the people get tired of waiting so long and raid the game studio
they find the fileserver with the unreal project on it
they open it
Nothing. The Developers spent all the budget on crack
the modding community collectively make and release the game in about an hour and a half including the time it took for them to eat lunch
the parent company of the game studio files a DMCA takedown that causes the modding platforms to completely take down every single instance of the fan made game
the studio hires a new dev team after the last one was beaten to death by the hordes of angry game fans
they announce a new game
The cycle repeats.
