Labo is a huge ripoff and a waste of a great concept (so far)

[WhatATimeToBeAlive]

duduspace1 said:

WhatATimeToBeAlive said:

Owned!

But I am pretty sure he can't come up with any reasonable LABO development cost number/argument. I think that fanboyism has got the better of him.

Here comes the cheerleading fanboy, DonFerrari at least still makes some interesting contributions worth responding to (even if his points are a bit biased towards his preferred console), apparently this one has nothing meaningful to contribute than to fan flames of console wars .

You said that you would provide a well-grounded estimate of LABO development costs if DonFerrari gave you a well-grounded estimate of God of War (2018) development costs. And he did: 200 developers, 60 months, $10 000 average wage per month = 120 million (and that's missing all the wages for voice and motion capture actors, musicians, etc.). But it looks like you can't/don't wan't to do it yourself.

You get a pretty accurate estimate when you know how big the dev team is and how long was it in development, just like DonFerrarri did. I have understood that LABO's lead designer is the same guy who was the lead designer of ARMS. And since arms was released a year ago, LABO's development time was most likely about one year. I don't know how big the dev team was, but it was most likely much smaller than 200 (probably 50 max.). Even if we use that same dev team size of 200 the costs would be: 12 x 200 x 10 000 = 24 million. And with 50: 24/4 = 6 million.

And in my opinnion (and probably majority of others) marketing costs should not be used as a justification of a products price. Its just extra "spare" money on top of the development costs. Or could some company for example make some cheap flash game, spend 100 million on marketing it and then say it's justified to charge $60 dollars for it? And even if in your opinnion it's justified, I don't know how you can justify LABO's price with it. To my understanding LABO was advertised barely at all. When you compare it to for example God of War, which was advertised heavily on YouTube and in NBA matches, it's not even a contest. There was that one Bill Nye video and that Ariana Grande video (but that was after it was released). So you can add max. couple of million from the marketing. And to add to the insult, it doesn't even cost $60 but $80. So where are the rest "magical" expenses?

So maybe you should stop making up excuses and face the reality.

Last edited by WhatATimeToBeAlive - on 28 May 2018