Over 400 seems a bit high to me but the size vs cost argument remains. Those external voice actors, animators, QA testers etc were all paid. Kepler Interactive even gave them money to have known actors for VA (they probably aren’t cheap).
So that’s very probably a several million budget (rumored to be between 5 and 25 mil according to non reliable source, thanks to Kepler and the early Gamepass contract).
Ok that’s not a 500 million budget, rather a 50 mil one (to be very large), but it’s definitely not a 500k budget.
And yet they sell it 45$.
Anyway, it just prove that you can build a Waguy steak alternative for cheaper while keeping the taste.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
“412 people (403 professional roles, 9 thanks) with 502 credits.” www.mobygames.com/game/241065/…/windows/?autoplat…
As for those compared budgets, CoD Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million and GTA 6 has already surpassed a billion.
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s really absurd where budget of those games went to… Big corpo gaming is wasteful as fuck.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Half of those budgets is marketing
kurcatovium@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s even worse part of it. Why tf does game like GTA6 even need marketing? Everyone and their dog will talk about it anyway…
Skunk@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Ah thanks for the link! I was looking for that information but could not find it.