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[MarcAFK]

if you look at the last few releases each major .01 sized release has needed something like 6 months, so er.... 33 years?

[Uristocrat]

All Toady has to do is declare some version to be 1.0, so mostly it depends on his willingness to do that.  It's not like DF would be "over" or something.  Really, the version number is meaningless.  It's more interesting to talk about whether or not certain features will ever be completed.

As far as that goes, I doubt that Toady will ever be able to add all the cool features he has imagined.  But he'll probably add a lot, so it will be interesting to see.

[Koronii]

I think the answer is yes, but it'll take years.

[Leatra]

I'm pretty sure this game will never be "finished" unless... humanity dies or something.

And that's a good thing.

[gimli]

Slim or none?

What is DF's future?

Personally I would say....zero chance. Even tho there are many factors...what if Toady gets sick/married/etc? You know real life stuff like that. Even if he works on it full-time, it will take 20+ years to reach v1.0 with this development speed? That's a crazy amount of time.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Pretty sure the chance of seeing version 1.0 is 1.0.

[Azri]

Personally, I wonder if there's ever a possibility of this Spike-menacing monster ever getting ported onto something like a PS3 or Xbox360. Given the sheer processing power of those consoles, it'd be nice to have a game worth playing on them- and they're a lot more portable than a whole computer.

Granted, the interface would need more reworking than a transsexual hooker- and I've grown rather used to/fond of the whole-keyboard method.

[lordcooper]

Does anyone else want to take this one?

[Jelle]

You can't really know the chance unless you have some sort of mathematical model to base off, I can't think of any games like Dwarf Fortress to decide on the chance in an empirical way hehe.
Could extrapolate based on version numbers and time between them but then Toady could do whatever the hell he wants with version numbers, not to mention extrapolating isn't very wise in most cases. ^^
Sooo no idea!

[greenskye]

Personally, I wonder if there's ever a possibility of this Spike-menacing monster ever getting ported onto something like a PS3 or Xbox360. Given the sheer processing power of those consoles, it'd be nice to have a game worth playing on them- and they're a lot more portable than a whole computer.

Granted, the interface would need more reworking than a transsexual hooker- and I've grown rather used to/fond of the whole-keyboard method.

Actually DF would run very poorly on a PS3/360. DF is CPU not GPU dependent. Typically consoles have a relatively weak CPU and a modified GPU. Even if consoles had a traditional CPU, both of those consoles are 6 years old. Your average laptop has much greater processing power these days.

Still it would be nice to play DF on a big tv... as long as we had a usable interface for it.

[Garath]

-snip- giants like EA crap out mainstream-friendly junk like great bloated beasts with chronic diarrhea.

The mountain titan EeeAaah has arrived! It is a hideous constuction of concrete. Beware it's noxious excretions!

[runlvlzero]

The Mayan calender says DF 1.0 will be released on Dec 23rd, 2012. As prophesied the world will vanish and we will all transport into magical Joyous Wilds! (with undead unicorns, ridden by GirlnHat =/)

[Murgy]

It may be prudent to begin growing our clone of Toady soon. I suspect it will be fully grown and ready to take over at roughly the halfway point between alpha and beta development. 

[Footkerchief]

It may be prudent to begin growing our clone of Toady soon. I suspect it will be fully grown and ready to take over at roughly the halfway point between alpha and beta development. 

The secondary unit should be online soon. It's currently undergoing preparations and should be operational within six months. If necessary, the primary will be terminated.

[NW_Kohaku]

These sorts of threads always miss the point:

"Version 1.0" is an utterly meaningless metric.

Toady has said this is his life's work - when he finishes "1.0", he will just keep working on it, adding more things.

This game has been a playable and enjoyable game back when it was 2d, and since then nearly everything has been rewritten about the game.

Toady could declare the very next version that comes out "1.0" if he wanted to, he could also keep working on version "0.132.01" at his death bed, since the entire version number mechanic is arbitrary, and the only thing that matters is that the number keeps going up - he's even rewritten the criteria he uses to measure version numbers before, he could just as easily do it again. 

If, instead of asking about "1.0", you are asking when DF will be "finished" or "perfect", and Toady will never again touch the code, then the answer is probably "not even after his death", as Toady intends to keep working on it, and after he dies, let it go open source, so future generations may be able to pick up and improve on DF.