BlkPaladin said:
Most of that probably went into pay for the developers, artist and outside talent.
The first reference to Destiny was in 2009 so development probably was started then, but it was a side job done by a few people. The game didn't go into "full" development until 2011. So two-or-three people proablly worked on it from 2009-to-2011, and then the full team from that point forward.
Not to mention that the 500 million was a figure dropped by Bobby Kotick and latter denied by bungie. So it probably was the estimated budget Activision was willing to give them at the time. (Wikipedia acticle on Bungie)
But back to make quick and dirty figures. 2-to-3 people making around 80k a year (gamasutra). That would be 160-to-240k a year for two years so 320k-to-480k during that time.
Now Bungie has about 160 employees, for the next three years they work on the game August 2011-to-August 2014. That is about 3.9 million during that time. This is just for the staff, not for any equipment they needed, outside work they needed done.. So I'm guessing the actual development cost is the range of 100 million-to-150 million. We will probably find that out when they have their financials covered at Activision's End of Year.
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Wow, your guestimation is absolutely shocking! How you calculate salaries is strange to say the least!? 160 skilled employees for 3 years, and you've calculated 3.9 million? 1.3m pa for 160 members of staff? WTF? Then you guess actual development cost is 100-150 million, just figures you plucked out of the air? How pointless!
