By comparison Veilguard, which was an admitted massive flop, sold 300k in the first 3 days. Avowed's low end budget was 70 million for development minus marketing with some estimates at over 100 million which is still about 1/3 of Dragon Age to be fair but by all markers this game will have to sell over a million copies at full cost (realistically 2-3 million) to break even.
they'll spin it however they can. question is whether even the DEI investors will wanna sink money into another pit like this at this point, especially with the USAID gravy train derailing...
yeah, but micosoft is publicly traded, and those investors could potentially sue for poor management or something, i'd imagine, especially if we're looking at multiple flops in the same year or fromt he same studio.
By comparison Veilguard, which was an admitted massive flop, sold 300k in the first 3 days. Avowed's low end budget was 70 million for development minus marketing with some estimates at over 100 million which is still about 1/3 of Dragon Age to be fair but by all markers this game will have to sell over a million copies at full cost (realistically 2-3 million) to break even.
Looks like everyone's pulling a Barve this year.
they have to try to convince investors not to sue.
I'm sure investors will just trust them as the entire market collapses this year.
GTA VI looks like the only potential redeemer and even at that the market is getting antsy with devs screwing around.
they'll spin it however they can. question is whether even the DEI investors will wanna sink money into another pit like this at this point, especially with the USAID gravy train derailing...
Do they have investors on this one? I thought it is fully financed by Microsoft and losing 50mil it's a drop in a bucket for them.
yeah, but micosoft is publicly traded, and those investors could potentially sue for poor management or something, i'd imagine, especially if we're looking at multiple flops in the same year or fromt he same studio.