You must of implied my whole post as to tryign to put you in a negative spot light or something. Actually I was sorta defending your states from that other guy. I guess i should of qouted him or something, however, thought that was uneccessary.
Anyways, Yes I do know that it takes an incredible amount of people to develop a game in that magnitude. The difference? Takes a few people/leaders to know what they need to do, then distribute sections within their group/team. thats how most goes anyways, Then you got the designers, the story tellers/script writers and blah blah blah too much to go into.
As far as the college degree statement, I wasn't trying to get on you about having your degree nor was i saying something negative about it. I have one, and I have a career to go with it, so i'm thankful I got that education[paper] and have already paid off my loans. However with the experiance that i had, you learn a bit more, not much if your an avid coder from school, you get to go to ethics class and shit like that as you need to. Maybe learn something else on top of it. But in the CS/CE/SE world, most of the time your there to network. Starts with freshman year, through year 4 or 5(depends on the program/school)
Thats all i was saying really ~_~