Project Eternity kickstarter (Obsidian, $1.1 million goal, everything you want in an RPG)

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Soleron said:

1 developer for 1 year = $100,000 including salary, insurance, office, equipment

£1.1million - 10% Kickstarter fee - 5% transaction fees - 10% merchandise costs / $100,000

= 9 developer-years

Delivery in 1.5 years

= SIX developers. These people have to do all art, code, music, animation, marketing and distribution from scratch.

If they license an engine that's even fewer people.

That's... hardly anything. Not enough do live up to the 3 games in the description.

8,760 hours in a year times 9 years = 78,840 man hours. Lies, damn lies, statistics. That's plenty of time for a game like this! Sure, the original Baldur's Gate took ten times the man hours, but that was with a completely inexperienced team that was also working on the engine as they went along. This is different.