Not entirely true. As long as the game was made by a repeutable company the game could be done withon a year or less. If bizzard does it, then it'll take years. But if any company now wanted to pull together something of that magnitude quickly, they would release a base idea for the world and then run patches. But if a company that has never made a mmorpg or doesn't have the resources to obtain the engine's for such a project they would be boned. It would really all depend on who made it really.I think a Naruto MMORPG would be cool, or a Naruto version of Skyrim. To make it worth playing it would take hundreds of people millions of dollars and years of work.
They could put it out that fast depending on how much effort they wanted to put into it. But Naruto games don't have a big enough fan base to be worth putting the money into a game that would be completely started from scratch on a new game engine. The games they know will sell millions of copies are the ones put at top priority. Generations took like a month to sell 100k copies, and MW3 took 24 hours to sell 10 million copies. Skyrim sold millions of copies already as well, and that is a more related to the rpg genre than MW3, thats just an example of game type. This would be the start of a new series without a lot of guaranteed sales which means it would take low priority. That means either it would take a long time to make, or be a poorly made game.Not entirely true. As long as the game was made by a repeutable company the game could be done withon a year or less. If bizzard does it, then it'll take years. But if any company now wanted to pull together something of that magnitude quickly, they would release a base idea for the world and then run patches. But if a company that has never made a mmorpg or doesn't have the resources to obtain the engine's for such a project they would be boned. It would really all depend on who made it really.