How much is it costing SOE to make planetside 2?

Magpie · 2012-04-05, 03:21 PM

This just out of pure interest how much is it costing to planetside? To lets say halo games, call of duty or battlefeild?

Also I wonder if SOE made money from planetside 1?

Just out of interest

ringring · 2012-04-05, 03:31 PM

Originally Posted by Magpie

This just out of pure interest how much is it costing to planetside? To lets say halo games, call of duty or battlefeild?

Also I wonder if SOE made money from planetside 1?

Just out of interest

We've been told that SoE did make moeny from ps, not as much as they hoped maybe but some.

ps2 ... dunno, millions for sure. They have 90 people working on it, they have been working on it now for several years, although not all those people for the full period.

Safe to say, ps2 is very important for SoE. - And I think from that fact you can understand why some game design decision have gone the way they did.

NCLynx · 2012-04-05, 03:38 PM

Higby is selling rights to his hair to get additional funding.

EVILPIG · 2012-04-05, 03:39 PM

SOE is not going to reveal this information any time soon.

Graywolves · 2012-04-05, 04:19 PM

A hundred trillion billion dollars

polywomple · 2012-04-05, 04:24 PM

NCLynx · 2012-04-05, 04:28 PM

Cost um bout Three Fiddy.

TheDrone · 2012-04-05, 04:57 PM

According to the consensus on these forums PlanetSide 2 is extremely cheap to make. Because "the mob" has determined this is how SOE is making the game:

Take PlanetSide 1, delete all the best parts, like vehicle animations, and then simply import the majority of the BF3 code.

This analysis could be wrong, tho.

JHendy · 2012-04-05, 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by NCLynx

Cost um bout Three Fiddy.

"Say, would you crackers like to hear about the time we saw the Loch Ness monster?!"

Mastachief · 2012-04-05, 05:19 PM

i remember a figure of $50m from somewhere but i'd say around $25m

Miir · 2012-04-05, 05:25 PM

Not sure about Planetside 2.

But assuming this is close
http://users.telenet.be/mmodata/Charts/Subs-3.png

There was about 50-60K users for the first couple years. So at 15 dollars a month that's almost a 750K-900K profit per month.

So if we say 750K-900K for 24 months thats a lot of cheese

Edit: plus that doesn't include the box sales.

I'm sure PS1 paid for itself.

SUBARU · 2012-04-05, 05:37 PM

Originally Posted by Mastachief

i remember a figure of $50m from somewhere but i'd say around $25m

I remember reading it was about 50 mil.

getcarter · 2012-04-05, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by TheDrone

According to the consensus on these forums PlanetSide 2 is extremely cheap to make. Because "the mob" has determined this is how SOE is making the game:

Take PlanetSide 1, delete all the best parts, like vehicle animations, and then simply import the majority of the BF3 code.

This analysis could be wrong, tho.

SKYeXile · 2012-04-05, 06:46 PM

Originally Posted by TheDrone

According to the consensus on these forums PlanetSide 2 is extremely cheap to make. Because "the mob" has determined this is how SOE is making the game:

Take PlanetSide 1, delete all the best parts, like vehicle animations, and then simply import the majority of the BF3 code.

This analysis could be wrong, tho.

lawl.

headcrab13 · 2012-04-05, 06:54 PM

I don't know how much they've invested so far, but they're going to make it back in ****** when this thing launches. Can't wait to see PS2 blow away the competition!