Indefinite hold ≠ cancelled, but it might as well be.Dr.Mystery wrote:i hope it doesn't get canceled
Usually, things put on indefinite hold are written by a small group of people, and the fact that it's written that way means that they specifically know how it works since they programmed everything in it. After a while, though, the thought of picking something back up becomes less and less appealing since there's usually problems you need to fix, and by the time you learn how to fix them, you'd rather just rewrite a whole chunk of {thing}, and that's unappealing to even think about. It's also hard to pick up if you have no relation to the project since you have to study the code and ask a ton of questions to an old or straight up dead account. Or, you could not be at the programming level that the original creators were, or you want to do it some different way.
This is pretty much the reason (sorta) that we have so many remakes. If people were eager to continue where others left off, we would have what would probably be a very strong development team on a single remake on a strong engine.