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Rallycart 11/25/08 4:24:15 PM
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I have been digging around, and can't really find any concrete info on what other MMOs have cost to develope. I am talking from Conception to Launch. I read that it was 2.5million for DAoC, and someone said like, 250million for Age of Conan, which sounds rediculous. Anyway, does anyone actually know what some of the big names have cost to create? I did a quick rundown, based on a 5 year developement plan, and found that it would cost about 5-6million to build a mid-level MMO, but even that is speculation. See post 2 for my reasoning. |
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Rallycart 11/25/08 4:34:35 PM
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Game Producer: $80,000.00/year for 5 years == $400,000.00
Total of everything: $4,940,000.00 I am sure that I have completely forgotten about several needed things, but this is a rough estimate. |
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Antarious 11/25/08 4:37:15 PM
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Originally posted by Rallycart
I know that Funcom had at least 30 to 40 million in outside funding... The average number I have seen thrown around lately (if you take what the companies are raising) is 70 to 100 million. I would think based on outside investment and what they had internally that is more the range AoC was probably in. You can actually google search it... I can't see where they would have come up with 250 million.. as their outside sources were in news articles. 38 Studio's in some interviews mention the 70 to 100 million range and in a gamespot artilce not that long ago another company was talking about 100 million for their mmo. It does make you wonder where all that money is going on most of these games when you finally can play them... |
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Rallycart 11/25/08 4:43:38 PM
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I know that Funcom had at least 30 to 40 million in outside funding... The average number I have seen thrown around lately (if you take what the companies are raising) is 70 to 100 million. I would think based on outside investment and what they had internally that is more the range AoC was probably in. You can actually google search it... I can't see where they would have come up with 250 million.. as their outside sources were in news articles
I would assume that a lot of their budget was eaten up on graphics and stuff, and Norway also costs a lot more to run things, buy things, and pay in salaries. Also, I would assume that budget also includes the cost of printing boxes, and advertising, but I have no idea. Either way, 100, or even 50 million is a stagarring amount. Even 6 million sounds so large, and so far away... lol. |
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fansede 11/25/08 4:46:57 PM
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