Thanks for this article - it was a great read.
Only one thing about the 1 year development cycle - I don't know the factors involved in game development, but I don't think that (large) ideas that originate in October (after a current version is released) get implemented in the next version that gets released the following year.
I sort of think that features are thought up well in advance and are gradually phased in as they are completed and robust enough to be released.

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