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Emeda
02.19.2012 , 11:28 PM | #521
Quote: Originally Posted by WarTornPanda View Post
If Bioware had ignored the voice acting, I'm 99% sure ten years of development wouldn't exceed 200 million dollars.
If Bioware ignored the voice acting this game wouldnt have cost 10 million.
If this game is so great then why do so many people that love the game spend all their time in the forums?

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Skoobie
02.19.2012 , 11:36 PM | #522
Quote: Originally Posted by WarTornPanda View Post
I disagree. If Bioware had ignored the voice acting, I'm 99% sure ten years of development wouldn't exceed 200 million dollars.
Since you're the expert, just how much money do you think Blizzard has put into WoW over the last 8 years..including the original development cost?

Less then 200 million?

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Skoobie
02.19.2012 , 11:44 PM | #523
Here, I'll help you:

Blizzard spent $200 million JUST IN 4 YEARS with WoW:

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/pos...lion-since-04/

and that doesn't include development cost or the last 4 years. (2008-present)

So I agree with you it wouldn't cost $200million for 10 years worth of development....it would cost alot more.

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WarTornPanda
02.20.2012 , 02:08 AM | #524
Quote: Originally Posted by Skoobie View Post
Here, I'll help you:

Blizzard spent $200 million JUST IN 4 YEARS with WoW:

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/pos...lion-since-04/

and that doesn't include development cost or the last 4 years. (2008-present)

So I agree with you it wouldn't cost $200million for 10 years worth of development....it would cost alot more.
Meh... Fixing and adding new content to a live game would be a lot more costly and difficult compared to developing something without worrying about players, balance, servers, etc...

Then there is this... dated July 24, 2010. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj

Your link includes this particular line...

"According to Activision, Blizzard has spent over $200 million on World of Warcraft since its launch. The amount accounts to every staff personnel--from customer service representatives to the programmers. Kotaku reports that the company's customer service department is the largest among the staff, which shouldn't be a surprise considering there's over 10 million players worldwide."

I stand by my original statement.
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Riddickcz
02.20.2012 , 04:53 AM | #525
Quote: Originally Posted by Eonz View Post
There won't be a surge of new subs... but a surge of people subbing who have lost access to their account due to premature cancellations... You're obviously paying your $15 so stop hating on those with rose colored glasses in hopes this game becomes a social phenomenon like other MMO's have... it's a good game... you just have a desire to hate... and hatred breads fail.
Errrr. Wrong. I dont pay anything to the money sucking fail called Bioware. Not will I ever again.

Learned my lesson.
The crazy is strong with this one.
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Hypernetic
02.20.2012 , 04:56 AM | #526
Quote: Originally Posted by Skoobie View Post
Here, I'll help you:

Blizzard spent $200 million JUST IN 4 YEARS with WoW:

http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/pos...lion-since-04/

and that doesn't include development cost or the last 4 years. (2008-present)

So I agree with you it wouldn't cost $200million for 10 years worth of development....it would cost alot more.

You are completely ignoring things like paying for servers, bandwidth, maintenance, engineers, electricity, marketing, etc, etc, etc. Not even close to all that money was spent purely on development.

You are also forgetting how much money Blizzard MADE in that time off of WoW.

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SentinelBorg
02.20.2012 , 05:40 AM | #527
Quote: Originally Posted by Goretzu View Post
People playing (and I guess subs) have definately dropped off from release.

I was on one of the heaviest servers and it's not even hitting heavy all the time now in prime time, and in game pops are down.

SWTOR still has a very health pop (anything over 300,000 is) and if they merged servers a bit it would be better still server-wise.
300k is not enough for this game! According to the statements from Bioware in their last investors call, they need 500k to just pay their bills and 1M to make a profit and have money for further expansions.

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Azzras
02.20.2012 , 06:59 AM | #528
Quote: Originally Posted by EdgeDs View Post
I think whats happening is people are just leaving their old servers and looking for one's which have some life left in them, I dont know if the games growing but if I had to guess I would say no it is not the big time to tell will be after the initial three month sub times are up as that seems to be a sweet spot a lot of players.
Given the lack of content and the way Illum plays though I would be shocked if their is a growth in actual subs.
What's wrong with Ilum now?
I'm on a PvE server and the PvP is great. All I see in the in-game general are people asking for invite to Ops pls. Are you mad? We, The Republic, are hunting you. We do not stand up to your numbers, we pick you off. We wing you. We win. You have your precious lightning. We have the force. Bring it to my server. I will teach you the ways.
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Riddickcz
02.20.2012 , 07:13 AM | #529
Quote: Originally Posted by Azzras View Post
What's wrong with Ilum now?
I'm on a PvE server and the PvP is great. All I see in the in-game general are people asking for invite to Ops pls. Are you mad? We, The Republic, are hunting you. We do not stand up to your numbers, we pick you off. We wing you. We win. You have your precious lightning. We have the force. Bring it to my server. I will teach you the ways.
Ahh, Azzras is back with his ways
The crazy is strong with this one.
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Drewser
02.20.2012 , 07:23 AM | #530
Quote: Originally Posted by Riddickcz View Post
Errrr. Wrong. I dont pay anything to the money sucking fail called Bioware. Not will I ever again.

Learned my lesson.
Why are you still here?
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