https://www.gamefile.news/p/call-of-duty-budgets-development-costs-black-ops-modern-warfare
The second gaming crash can't come soon enough. Everyday I pray for GTA VI and Switch 2 to destroy the current AAA landscape.
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They embezzling money at this point? Slop aint cost that much to make
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it does when you treat engineers/artists as fungible assembly line workers necessarily managed by a large hierarchy.
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It's really remarkable. Management tries to get the largest budget they can so some middle manager can say "I managed 20 underlings" on their resume and try to launch themselves to a higher pay band.
Isn't CoD like permanently popular, though? I wonder if they made their money back.
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i think that includes marketing costs which could easily be more than half of that. it's pretty stupid how much societal resource is spent on just getting the word around. we all pay for that via increased prices across the board.
the same released noted 30 million in sales, so they probably did.
last cod game i played was CoD2, so
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It ain't 700 M popular
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To be fair it was supported with new content for a while after launch. But that's still a ridiculous amount of money.
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