How much is it costing SOE to make planetside 2?

[Crazyduckling]

Originally Posted by SUBARU

I remember reading it was about 50 mil.

Reinforcing this. 50m.

[Skitrel]

Originally Posted by headcrab13

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!

It's all a conspiracy, just wait, SOE will launch PS2 and Valve will announce Half Life 3 the same week.

That would be the worst possible outcome.

[NewSith]

1. Find the roster of PS2 development team.
2. Find a minimum wage numbers for California.
3. Multiply the wage by the number of devs.
4. Calculate the approx building rent.
5. Add the rent cost.
6. Calculate the conviniences costs.
7. Add them to the sum.
8. Add the expenses on food, furniture, digital equipment, internet, stationery and taxes.
9. Here's the cost.

[sylphaen]

Originally Posted by NewSith

1. Find the roster of PS2 development team.
2. Find a minimum wage numbers for California.
3. Multiply the wage by the number of devs.
4. Calculate the approx building rent.
5. Add the rent cost.
6. Calculate the conviniences costs.
7. Add them to the sum.
8. Add the expenses on food, furniture, digital equipment, internet, stationery and taxes.
9. Here's the cost.

He would still miss the development start date to know what to multiply the per month. He would also need the shared costs allocation rates to the PS2 project but you pretty much nailed it for estimations based on publicly available information.

[headcrab13]

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.

Haha. SOE's lawyers are going to hunt you to the ends of the Earth for revealing their secrets!

[Redshift]

Originally Posted by NCLynx

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

They should put higby's hair in the cash shop... i'd buy it

[NewSith]

Originally Posted by Redshift

They should put higby's hair in the cash shop... i'd buy it

[sylphaen]

Originally Posted by NewSith

Wow... lol

It's really possible to find anything on the internet. Or Higby is very famous !

[Dir]

Originally Posted by NCLynx

Cost um bout Three Fiddy.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SkitzoSniper]

My best guess is that this is somewhere around 10-20mil range for budget.

[Tasorin]

I would expect as an official AAA title from SOE I wouldn't be surprised if they had a development budget of $10-15M USD. The question is does Forge Light count as part of PS2's development budget or is it being amortized over multiple titles by Smeds. The other parts of this is the operating budget to cover wages, benifits, wage taxes both Federal and State, the monthly cost of money, site costs and the direct and non-direct G&A all covered in the project overhead forecast. Lastly and one of the things we haven't really seen Smed's unleash yet is the big dollars for a full blown lay the smacketh down advertising campaign fitting of the best AAA title to come out the SOE stable in a long damn time. It wouldn't be too out of line to expect the PS2 team had a total combined budget of $50M USD.

With the progress they are making in the time frame that has expired I think its safe to say that there isn't a cash crunch as PS2 was a fully funded AAA title. Now, Sony Corp. did announce a massive loss to the tune of $3.2B USD and the Playstation Network debacle and quasi lackluster Sony Music catalog does put the crimp on the P/L sub division known as Sony Entertainment. One wonders how long Howard Stringer will keep his C-Suite before he is given his golden parachute.