Half a Billion Dollars Potentially Invested in MindsEye
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MrTroubleMaker
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Lionel Richie
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I don't think it was all spent on this goofy ass game, but rather their Roblox/Fortnite copycat money laudering scheme that's probably never coming out.
64gigabyteram
Reverse groomer.
^ The above statement was written by a chronic idiot. please disregard
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The Fartist
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newtypepilot
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Scam Citizen: only half a billion? amateurs...
OmegaSupreme
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Oof
StreetsofBeige
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Granted a bunch of those resources go to that community creation software they got, which Mindseye came from. But still, sounds like a shit ton of budget and people even for both projects.
All I know is if anyone wants to see money fly out the window faster than lightning, you got your pick of: Gambling at the casino, hookers and booze, or give it to a video game studio.
That's three things that can spiral into no budget is too big.
SomeNorseGuy
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But still only half as much as Rockstar paid for the smear campaign.
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L*][*N*K
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There is no way IOI is funding that much money into the game, more than likely this money came from investors who poured it into it for the "former GTA director" tag line.this is why IOI couldn't afford better character rendering for james bond
DonkeyPunchJr
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Wow that's a Concord sized disaster.
Dalbajobas
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Crazy IF true. Game is less advanced than that open world game from 2013.
Dalbajobas
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Wait ... what smear?
bender
What time is it?
SomeNorseGuy
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Was some rumblings from the devs that there were efforts made to smear the game...which is laughable. I can't imagine Take Two or R* shaking in their boots over this.
Edit: link to thread https://neogaf.com/threads/mindseye...paid-to-be-negative-towards-the-game.1684596/
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Arsic
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There's no way. 450 employees?
Across 8 years making $50,000 for salary is $180M. Most are likely closer to $100,000. So $360 million just for salaries.
That leaves only $90million. wtf was that tiny amount spent on? Just the cut scenes and paying voice actors?
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iamvin22
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ProtoByte
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Yeah, this studio was founded 9 years ago and this is their first product.
All of these studios started up by big names from gens 6 and 7 just seem like investment funneling schemes. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Benzies himself is surprised they actually launched a product. He was still raking it in during the whole fiasco, same as Jade Raymond.
SILKYSMOOTH30FPS
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If this empty hollow garbage costs half a Bil, imagine the cost of GTA6. Holy shit.
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Rockstar likely spending multi billions then
semiconscious
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that the second spider-man game, released 5 years after the first game, cost over 3 times as much to develop tells you all you need to know about the state of big time game development. either deliberately or accidentally, it's devolved into a racket...
SamuraiEdge
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Leslie made a killing no matter what occured out of this project, all because of GTA & being at the right time of circumstance to get all that investment.
Man will come out of this laughing.
Man will come out of this laughing.
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Dalbajobas
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He I though you were serious for a sec there.Was some rumblings from the devs that there were efforts made to smear the game...which is laughable. I can't imagine Take Two or R* shaking in their boots over this.
Edit: link to thread https://neogaf.com/threads/mindseye...paid-to-be-negative-towards-the-game.1684596/
Kenneth Haight
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Denton
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From 2002 (Mafia)
Astray
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His name is completely torched to VCs everywhere and he likely put in some of his own money into this. He is absolutely not laughing.
I collect VHS tapes
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Never even heard of this game
Walliwallipaloo
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That's basically what investor-based marketing is all about. Fishing for whales. The firms are the rods, and buzzwords and selling points like "we got the guy who did GTA" is the bait on the hook. Clueless boomers who don't even really know what they're doing toss over their money expecting returns.
It's a system built on ignorance which breeds ignorance and drives down the quality of everything.
Now I see why ol' Lez was affixed to the project. Advertising - not to the customer, but to the idiot "investors."
It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.
It's a system built on ignorance which breeds ignorance and drives down the quality of everything.
Now I see why ol' Lez was affixed to the project. Advertising - not to the customer, but to the idiot "investors."
It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.
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Kerotan
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So the investors will lose out big here. They thought it was going to be the next GTA.
Judge Magister
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The Benz living up to his name.