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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

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.