Over $600 Million Later, Star Citizen Is Now at the Alpha 3.20 Stage::Star Citizen’s long-running development has inched forward yet again, this time to Alpha 3.20 stage.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m just super curious at to what $600m would get me. Maybe suckering people into paying for it out of curiousity was their genius business plan along though.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the cost of about three typical AAA games. Genshin Impact’s costs up to around its second year of development is also about that much.

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        1 year ago

        The average cost of a AAA game is $80m.

        “AAA games are the big-budget games that large studios and publishers typically make. The average AAA game takes about four years to develop, with an average cost of about $80 million and higher. But this amount can vary significantly depending on the type of game and its level of complexity.”

        -https://rocketbrush.com/blog/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-a-game

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          AAA games also tend to do esoteric things like “release” and “become profitable” and “spawn sequels.”