Simu isn't moving into their larger office.
There is a completely valid reason, but since I do not believe it has been disclosed elsewhere, I will not go into it here.
We know that their old (and current) office are far too small to fit enough people to make a competitive MMO. We know that if Simu was serious about releasing the game, it would be at a point where they would want to start to advertising and drumming up a fanbase.
I'm not going to guess on what size office IS necessary, as I believe quality of work should always trump quantity. They could fill a huge office to the brim with mediocre workers, but I'd rather have a small office of people who do really amazing things.
At this point in time, they do not feel it is necessary or ready or whatever to start trying to get people excited. Things started going quiet when Melissa left Simu. A lot of things changed. HJ two years ago is NOT HJ today. There is still work to do, and with any millions of things that CAN go wrong and delay things for longer. Why would it be smart to repeat what happened previously with release dates and such? It just pulls more people in to hear "HJ is never coming out", or "HJ has been in development for ten years!!" but neither of those are true. HJ
was a CONCEPT ten years ago, but it was nothing of a game.
And most importantly, we know that with the space restrictions there is virtually no way to work on multiple large projects at a time, one is going to take precedence and which one will it be? Hero Engine will take precedence every time.
This is pure speculation. You don't know the amount of people or space that it takes to make a game. You don't know how many people or how much space is on-site. Have you ever been to the office? Have you met the people who work there? Have you taken count of the programmers, game devs, or artists?
I mean lets throw out numbers. What is an acceptable amount of people to you to make a game? How much space should there be?
I never said HJ wasn't being worked on by on-site people. I said HJ wasn't being worked on by ENOUGH on-site people to get a release date in this decade. And anything outside this decade it will be so out-dated it won't even matter.
You'd be surprised at how well HJ has aged. You forget that Simu owns the engine. Besides, people still play WoW and we all have heard the complaints there. It's about the
fun in the end.