Massive Price Drop!

[Coldcall]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

For that to happen, they would have to go independent. And where would the money comes from? (not being sarcastic, just wondering).

There is plenty of funding out there for a well put together pitch, led by a dev team that has a track record. Thats the key. I on my own could not go to a VC and say i have a great idea etc....However with a project lead from SH5 it would be a total walk in the park, the figures would just need to be right. If as one poster said Ubi merely put a few hundred thousand euros into development then that is small change to an investor.

Not being funny but i could probably scrape that together on my own :-)

I was thinking you need atleast a million quid or so, but apprently that doesnt seem to be the case.

Of course marketing and promotions costs money too, but with communties like subsim, simhq. combatsim, and maybe some good reviews (that would be a first :-) one can be creative these days and not spend the sort of money EA and Ubi do on marketing. Actually from what Ive heard Ubi totally negelected US marketing for SH5 simply so im not sure they are spending that much on marketing SH5 anyway.

Im not saying one can wave a wand and all this is easy, but dedicated folks, who have the experience could do this if they were determined. Gaming is a growing industry and alot of VC houses who use to lend money for financial type investments are now looking at other avenues of investment.