Ubisoft: Tencent, Guillemot Family Weighing Buyout

[Ryuu96]

Tober said:

Ryuu96 said:

It could be the budget if for some reason, we're including the acquisition costs, which would be stupid. It could have been the planned budget from creation to release to years of support, but the rumour was that it was the budget from creation to release and that's what I find unbelievable and is being disputed. I don't discount that like Destiny 1, it could have had tens of millions in planned spending after release.

I don't know who this Youtuber's source was. But it would hardly been the CFO. The program manager on this project? Hardly, like if a program manager tells the outside world how big a budget was on a failed project they were responsible for.

There are not that many in the company that would know about the real costs. A disgrunted employee being the source can trow any money number in the air.

Yeah this is true as well, there's few people who will actually have access to the financials, your average employee likely won't know shit about the budget, they may hear whispers of it but who knows how many people that has passed through. I think it's also possible this "employee" saw the investor roundups that ProbablyMonsters received (which yes, were $200m+ in total) but that was spread across 3 studios and HQ...Maybe they thought that was all for Firewalk though.