HappySqurriel said:
He is (certainly) being paid for his involvement, but even if he made $500,000 or $1,000,000 from this game it wouldn't really (dramatically) increase the number of units they needed to sell to break even. Celebrities do not necessarily make that much money from these types of arrangements if their involvement is not that large, and they're not expected to do much in the way of promotion. He may not have even been paid that much being that he has had an interest in videogame development for awhile (he was involved with The Dig in the 90s which was an amazing game), and he may be working with EA to (eventually) have his own studio within EA where he gets a cut of the Revenues ... |
From everything I've heard, Spielberg insisted that this game be made, rather than the other way around, so I doubt EA had to pay him too much for this. The HD title he's working on is probably a different story, though.
