Ubisoft Reports $117M Loss On Sales Drops, Catalog Discounting

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NJ5 said:

Yakuzaice said:

May is pretty late in the cycle.  Less than six months before the game released.  Big games to to go gold around a month before they release, so that is only ~5 months most likely with 450 employees.

That is the best possible case, of course. In reality I have a hard time believing that there were much fewer than 450 people working on the game before that.

Also, they did say that the team was three times as big as the team that made Assassin's Creed 1:

http://www.nowgamer.com/news/513/assassins-creed-ii-triples-size-of-dev-team

So about triple the costs of an already expensive project... and probably with more advertising.

 

Team size usually more than double when getting close to finishing a project due to the QA needs.

 

If you don't believe it, take the time to watch the credit at the end of any game. A very significant portion of them are listed as QA people....