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Topic	How does a game that's been in development for 8+ years make money?
Zeus 10/28/20 5:24:46 PM #5:	Through sales? Kinda seems like a silly question. SpeedDemon20 posted... Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in May 2012 apparently? And it's coming out this year (hopefully). Aren't a lot of people working on it? Doesn't development cost a lot each year? How many copies would it have to sell to profit? Kinda depends on how consistent the development is. The cycle could have started with a very small staff then had pauses in development because of funding issues. Just because it started a long time ago doesn't mean it's been consistently done all this time and at full staff. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:946421619] in How does a... [t:79069786]...</cite> <quote>Through sales? Kinda seems like a silly question. SpeedDemon20 posted... </cite> <quote>Cyberpunk 2077 was announced in May 2012 apparently? And it's coming out this year (hopefully). Aren't a lot of people working on it? Doesn't development cost a lot each year? How many copies would it have to sell to profit?</quote> Kinda depends on how consistent the development is. The cycle could have started with a very small staff then had pauses in development because of funding issues. Just because it started a long time ago doesn't mean it's been consistently done all this time and at full staff. --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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