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>Currently at ~300 MILLION dollars? But that's not so much for such a game, for comparison: "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" - $200 million "Grand Theft Auto

by nix23 6y ago

>Currently at ~300 MILLION dollars? But that's not so much for such a game, for comparison: "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" - $200 million "Grand Theft Auto V" - $137.5 million to $265 million "Destiny" - $500 million https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-video-games-ever-made-2014-7?r=US&IR=T#destiny-500-million-10 https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-video-gam...

SahAssar 6y ago
Most of those include marketing too. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_games_to_develop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g... Star Citizen has the highest development cost.
- nix23 6y ago
  Star Wars: The Old Republic 200 Star Citizen 215+ But again if you compare SC to SW.....
  - SahAssar 6y ago
    > But again if you compare SC to SW..... They are both pretty much failures? Expect only one of them took money from customers before having anything to show for it.
    - nix23 6y ago
      >They are both pretty much failures If something is not finished you cannot tell :-) But one of them are a failure.
      - SahAssar 6y ago
        I think being 400% over schedule can be considered a kind of failure.
- ehnto 6y ago
  It is also two games, not one. Squadron 42 is being developed separately and will release separately to Star Citizen. They also had a failed attempt at Squadron42 developed by a partner agency that was thrown away.
  - SahAssar 6y ago
    I would imagine that any multi-hundred-million project has had unproductive branches, pivots and starts. Star Citizens has been been more public, so it's harder to compare, but I don't think many of the others on the list had a straight path to what was released.