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Community for CRPG games and other RPG gaming discussions. Witcher, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Baldurs Gate as well as indie RPGs (Underrail, Avernum, Space Wreck etc.). Focus is on CRPGs, but discussion around JPRGs, ARPGs and hybrid games with RPG components is also welcome.
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RPG Game communities on Threadi:
- Baldur's Gate 3
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Deus Ex
- Elder Scrolls
- Fallout
- Kingdom Come
- Mass Effect
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That's $189 million made, compared to $200 million for development cost (not including marketing which is usually quite a big number too).
It's basically only just now breaking even according to their CEO. Well actually not even fully there yet.
For a company like Microsoft with a history of canning even profitable game studios just because they didn't make enough profit this tracks.
I didn't know the budget was out there, but I knew there was a possibility it got that high, using a benchmark of Spider-Man 2 at $300M, and Horizon: Forbidden West at about $200M; European studios tend to come in cheaper than their American counterparts, pound for pound. Still, they cleared the bulk of that expense in a week, and they'll have a very healthy tail on the game's sales from now until Christmas.
Minus whatever the cost to develop new content will be (which they've stated they will lean into heavily, similar to their previous Hitman games).
Yes, they're turning a profit, but not enough to fund their predicted cost for a sequel if it tracks even remotely similar percentages to the World of Assassins trilogy.
It would probably be way smarter if everything was funded out of a policy of austerity using the previous game's profits, but I don't think that's how it works, hence the people fired the minute this project was cancelled.