The budget for this was OVER 250 MILLION DOLLARS!

[Stack]

THEY NEED to sell over 6m copies to make that money back…
THIS IS INSANE!

Correction!!!: Inquisition budget was 150m and it was released 10 years ago!

THEY MUST HAVE DUMPED AT LEAST 250m on the development WITHOUT marketing!!!

INSANE!!!!


FACTS:

Dev started in 2015 and hundreds of people were involved, but teams were switched, people laid off etc. So it's hard to be precise but we can do MIN estimates, let me try.

We can assume that out of these 9 years at the very least 5 years DA:V was being worked on from various news (2017-2021 game project faded in the background and 2021-2024 Bioware which has 320 employees was fully focused on it with help from EA).
Since we know "hundreds of people" worked on the project it's at least 200, probably more.

Now, in Canada the average software dev salary is >80k us dollar, but let's assume the average worked with taxes only cost 100k. They had very high staff turnover and this is expensive but I'll ignore it.

5 years, 200 people, 100k each is a total of $100 million. Super low estimate.

This estimate might be more accurate :
The actual numbers might be 100 people at lowest and 500 at highest so an average of 300 over 9 years, with a cost of at least 125,000 USD per person (Bioware average salary is 122k CAD if my sources are correct, not counting health benefits, turnover, goodbye packages, Canada Pension Plan etc - USDCAD rate has been around 1.25 around that period).


PTS: saying 200 people worked in this game is me being kind to them.

[Ashbornik]

with or without marketing ?

[Drake Ravenwolf]

I doubt it was that low, DAI cost 175M from 3 years of development

[Subset6]

I think its likely way higher but source?

[talemore]

Welp the acolyte was $180 millions.

[Matt]

Here’s where that “modern audience” is supposed to come in and save the day like they did with Concord, Saints Row, Dustborn, Deathloop…

[talemore]

What I heard the acolyte went overbudget and ended at $230 million dollars.

[Kofina]

Originally posted by Walter:

THEY NEED to sell over 3,000,000 to make that money back…
THIS IS INSANE!

Does that include having to re-do development?

[ArchangelEST]

Huh? What part of that is insane?

Bioware's biggest failure to date, Anthem, still sold 5 million copies.

DA:I, the last Dragon Age game was Bioware's bestselling game of all time with over 12 million copies sold.

I wouldn't say having to sell 3 million copies to break even is by any means insane. You expect that many sales in the first few weeks alone. And it's likely going to happen purely off of the existing fanbase alone.

[Stack]

Originally posted by 卂丂卄乃口尺几:

with or without marketing ?

Originally posted by Drake Ravenwolf:

I doubt it was that low, DAI cost 175M from 3 years of development

Originally posted by Brahson:

with or without gender inclusivity consulting costs

Originally posted by rionmc:

I think its likely way higher but source?

Originally posted by talemore:

Welp the acolyte was $180 millions.

Originally posted by talemore:

Welp the acolyte was $180 millions.

Originally posted by mow1469:

Originally posted by Walter:

THEY NEED to sell over 3,000,000 to make that money back…
THIS IS INSANE!

OOf.. this will be more of a bust than Joker 2 was.

Inquisition Budget was 150m!!!!!
THEY HAVE AT LEAST!!! DUMPED WELL WELL WELL OVER 250M on this!!!!

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[12InchParadise]

Marketing another 50%.
Platforms take their own cut.

They'll need to sell at least 6-8mil to break even.

That's not happening.

[Dicken's Homemade Cider]

You underestimate our power, we have a ton of people on our side, once I get the money I will buy myself a copy and my friends.

[BlackJackZach]

Bye Bye Biowoke!

[talemore]

They don't need to sell all the copies.

They have investments and tax evasion and money laundries.

EA is a Casino company if you didn't knew that. They may make videogames but their main business is casino.

[Subset6]

No source.. another troll bites the dust.

[sgrey]

Originally posted by 卂丂卄乃口尺几:

with or without marketing ?

This number is without marketing afaik