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Ponyless on 26 January 2014
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NintendoPie said:
FlamingWeazel said:

Yep, in a worst case they usually do by the time they go to f2p, unless it's just a bad game like All points bulletin. You dont need huge numbers when people pay 15 a month.

 

Publishers would not keep making them if they were financial disasters.

Okay, thanks for the information. I definitely had some sticker shock.

He's wrong about that, the largest budget on an MMO was The Old Republic at nearly $200million. And ESO has already went past that. Most small  MMOs are at max 3 million, medium size ones like Guild Wars 2 are 30-50 million. Huge Triple A ones like ff14, old republic, and ESO are minimum 80+ million. So even for huge MMOs, that's not a normal budget.

As for making money back? Recently no, Old Republic has not made EA a single penny and they were forced to go f2p to try to make money,FF14 probably hasn't made Square money due to the fact that they were forced to relaunch the game because of how terible the original went. Really, only MMO with a huge initial budget that i think actually made money was World of Warcraft.