I think you are undervaluing the codebase, if he used a codebase that was touched by 10 engineers with an average pay of 100k, the codebase cost 1 million to ma

I think you are undervaluing the codebase, if he used a codebase that was touched by 10 engineers with an average pay of 100k, the codebase cost 1 million to make in just one year, it would be hard for any engineer no matter how good to match the man hours of 10 engineers, Zenimax owned that knowledge and paid a high price for the value