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Edited by Joe Cool:
2/3/2016 5:45:47 AM
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Where's this $500M going?
Edit: you guys are clearly taking the title for more than is meant. I'm not stupid enough to think Bungie was just handed $500M, yes I know Activision holds the key to the money, and no I didn't forget about the damn advertising and development and crap.
It's clearly not going towards getting better equipment to run the game, people are still lagging everywhere I go even when my internet is fine. I understand Bungie uses a weird hybrid system that mixes part-time dedicated servers with authoritative player-to-player hosts and such, but it's obviously not working the way they wanted it to? So if this game has a $500M budget, why can't you spare some cash for upgrading the equipment it's played on?
I would say you could take the money from what you saved by illegally firing Martin O'Donnel, but I'm glad Bungie got -blam!-ed in the lawsuit. You deserve it, Bungie. You're -blam!-ing terrible people.
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Golden parachute for ex CEO.
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7 Replies50% advertising 24% hookers 24% cocaine 1% development 1% deej salary The other employees are interns who are about to graduate college, so they're free.
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The month long vacations they take since maintaining a always online game doesn't warrant constant attention
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I always love hearing "my internet's perfect". Did your ISP tell you that? Lol
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Bungie probably over spent on the production of Destiny and ended up paying Activision with its profits from sales. If it's true that Destiny is built with a shitty game engine that takes forever to add/fix content, Bungie (as a company) are in serious trouble.
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It goes straight to Bungie's wallets for booze and CoD games
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Edited by AnubisXIX82: 2/2/2016 8:46:45 PMIt went on stuff they didn't use in the game and stuff they got rid of. For example David Cross writing and Peter dinklage
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i would assume dedicated servers for destiny 2. if destiny 2 doesnt address every single issue people have with the game it will implode on itself and die. so i assume bungie is taking all the money that would have gone to expansions for year 2 into things like dedicated servers for destiny 2.
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Advertising probably takes 75-80% of the budget. Welcome to capitalism.
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Joseph staten and Marty, then the rest ads. But since they left the game was screwed
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1 ReplyIt is the budget for the entire franchise and is paying for the studio, development, and, most importantly, advertising.
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Remember that "leak" where the employee companied Bungie is broke? Lololol
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Beer and strippers
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To the life time of the game.
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Super Bowl commercials
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Edited by xpctR3sistanc3: 2/2/2016 5:26:49 PMAdvertising/Marketing... There's a reason it sold so well on Day 1. [spoiler]Then probably broke records for Gamestop trade ins on day 2[/spoiler]
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Google the most expensive games ever made and you will have your answer.
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Running a Starbucks on the second floor.
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2 RepliesEmployees, devs, servers, upkeep, facilities, partnerships, advertising. That budget isn't just for the game.
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4 RepliesLol [quote]You know nothing, Jon Snow[/quote] But, seriously - 500 million dollar budget doesn't mean what you think it means.
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1 ReplyDid you forget how much advertising there was
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Edited by Ni Knight: 2/2/2016 5:49:47 AMI think it most went on marketing at the beginning. Dinklage as the Ghost and an exclusive music from Paul MacCartney, well, that alone wasn't cheap. At least it looks like it, because until the release of TTK, there was heavy marketing over their next content. Now all is quiet... But that's me just thinking out loud, who knows how it was invested/spent....
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Agreed
