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Originally Posted by malkuth74
Yes but you guys are thinking that im just talking about SHV. The problem is that neal posted numbers going back to SHII. And they never sold over 100K titles in the US.
Can't be right. They might use the same engine. But they still have development cost to update it, pay the Developers a years salery etc. Then production cost, advertisments, forums, manuals. ETC.
It cost more then you guys think.
They have to be making money though, becuase they keep making the games. Thats why I don't think the numbers are any good.
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Oh, I absolutely agree. I'm sure the budget for this game was similar to the average game. But if they had to start from scratch, the cost would have been doubled, at least. They couldn't even sell enough copies to break even, let alone make a profit. The only reason it is being made at all is it has a mature engine to build on.