Star Citizen Overtakes GTA 5 as Third Most Expensive Game to Develop
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I'd like to point out that they number they're using as Star Citizen's development cost isn't actually how much has been spent making the game so far, but how much crowdfunding money it has raised. As far as I'm aware the developers haven't shared any financial statements, but certainly they haven't spent all 138 million dollars yet.
There are so many employees, it'd have leaked if this conspiracy was true.
Star Citizen's real problem mainly seems to be an incredible amount of feature creep. They'll eventually get to something more or less like their vision is promising, although probably not every single little thing.
There are so many employees, it'd have leaked if this conspiracy was true.
Star Citizen's real problem mainly seems to be an incredible amount of feature creep. They'll eventually get to something more or less like their vision is promising, although probably not every single little thing.
Stumpokapow
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these seem like phony numbers; for example, it is absolutely implausible that WoW hasn't "cost more than $108 million" to develop over its entire lifespan, and not all of the money for roberts space industries is going directly to development costs, because they also have non-development operational costs. the game industry isn't the movie industry where reporting budgets is pretty standard, so this is all stabbing in the dark.
MidnightCowboy
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How has this game managed to raise so much money? It's an absurd amount.
ShooterMcGavin
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That is absolutely fucking insane to me.
That budgetlist is not accurate at all, and does not reflect anything really. Saying this as a developer 
I always found that list wierd, most of it is guesswork + most titles are not even in that list, so there is no point in labeling things as "tenth most expensive game ever", more like "tenth most expensive game that we have any guesswork data on and bothered to put in this list"
I always found that list wierd, most of it is guesswork + most titles are not even in that list, so there is no point in labeling things as "tenth most expensive game ever", more like "tenth most expensive game that we have any guesswork data on and bothered to put in this list"Cropduster89
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Modular spaceship tiolets don't pay for themselves.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
I'm sorry but it's not their personal fortunes their risking here that's a fact. I'm sure there's millions of people that would love to invest their time into passion project with little risk, I know I would.
To be honest, they have made promises that all the money raised will go into the game in some way or another, and we're talking *only* the game, not marketing etc.
What they did say is that they will only profit from revenue raised after the game is released.
SeanNoonan
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I believe a large chunk of Destiny's budget was spent on marketing.
It is being developed, so what is your point?
Eolz
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iHaunter
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Grow up.
Drakendodertje
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Props for Witcher 3: Wild Hunt having cost a 'measly' 46 million in development, being such an immense open world game.
Wait, The Old Republic was the most expensive game to develop in history when you exclude marketing costs? Seriously?
Seeing the money that went into some cancelled games though....yikes. 90 million on a Halo MMO, 75 million on Fable Legends, how can you drop that much cash and then have nothing to show for it at the end?
According to that Wiki entry, even without marketing Destiny was still 3 million more expensive than GTA V
Seeing the money that went into some cancelled games though....yikes. 90 million on a Halo MMO, 75 million on Fable Legends, how can you drop that much cash and then have nothing to show for it at the end?
Hawk269
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Interesting. So Star Citizen has been 100% crowd funded? That is interesting if so. I wonder if a console version will eventually come out? Does it not need a beefy PC to run decently though?
Definitely needs a beefy PC to run decently. Granted, there's a lot of room for optimization(A lot of the performance problems stem from server side issues throttling performance), but the cpu load is a lot heavier than the crappy CPUs in consoles can handle.
Zalusithix
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Yes, it's entirely crowdfunded and continues to pull in more money per month than most crowdfunded games will see in total (~7.7m last month). It's an outlier among outliers in virtually every way possible - from money raised, to scope and ambition. For better and worse, it's blazing its own trail through uncharted territory.
if it comes out for consoles, it will be the next console generation after pro and scorpio
UpDownLeftRight
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So, there's a Squadron 42 stream this month right? For some reason I thought it was going to be in the one last month.