This might be a dumb question. So I get that there goes a lot of work and time in creating a high quality game and with major game studios like ubisoft and fromsoft the cost can rank up to hundreds of millions of dollars, but even though it takes a lot of work to make a good game, how does it cost 500 million dollars? like where does that money go to? is there one specific part of making a game that costs a lot of money for large studios?
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A major game is at least as complicated as a major animation based movie. They have a lot of the same components with a script, lots of foreground and background scenes, character animation, voice actors, music, etc. but the game can actually be significantly longer than a movie and does not always follow an exact chronological path like a movie does as players have some control over what happens next.
When the game is released and users are going to start playing it, they need download servers, servers to run the game, support personnel, and a huge amount of internet bandwidth to run it all. Often times, a development team of many of the same people who originally wrote it already working on the next expansion pack. In short, the game’s costs do not end when it is released. The costs continue on for as long as people are playing it and new people are buying it.
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