| darthdevidem01 said: Do you think they'll ever make that $300 Million back? And who knows how much higher it will go now. But why is it even that costly, I don't understand the graphics are nothing to go home about, is it the amount of content they have in the game? Or the number of years spent on it? I mean they don't even have server costs yet apart from the beta. |
Well, they guy specifically mentions audio work, something to the tune of 20gbs. Apparently every single line in the game is spoken, which is a hell of a lot of voice work for an MMO. On top of that, two of the CGI videos in the game cost around $50 million a piece, according to some guys on gaf. Not sure how accurate that is.
That being said, $300 million isn't impossible to overcome, at least for an MMO. A decent subscription base can have that back in a few years. Of course, at that point you're adding in service costs, expansion costs (to keep that playerbase around), etc. $300 million swells to $400 million, then to $500 million, and so on.
At $15 a month, you'd need over a million and a half players to subscribe for at least a year to pull in $300 million.
