They work in a way that can only be described as idiosynchratic and most "western" software developers would run screaming.
What an understatement. Its a clusterf**k.
For Oleg this is just a revenue stream.
He is fully into photography now.
As others have said, we will have to judge final product .... but graphics are going to blow and be outdated before they even go gold. There has been absolutely no talk about gameplay issues like Scale, dots, gui, server browsers, multiplayer features ect ....
Graphics are a worry, but there is plenty of other things to be concerned about.