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Oof: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League lost Warner Bros. $200 million—which is $25 million more than the original 2016 movie cost to make (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not an expert on making videogames, but couldn't this game have been made with only a fraction of the budget? I mean, I heard there wasn't much content to begin with which is why so many people complain it's so repetitive. What was the money spent on? The massive headcount of artists and programmers working on the same small details? Overpriced consultants who are there just to critique the game's script as being "too offensive" on some parts? Reworks to plot points because overbearing producers want to find ways to shoehorn in some kind of paid DLC? The whole game is a money pit with no way to know how deep it goes.

[–] TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

They wanted it to be a live service, which is famously expensive to develop. They have to pay people to be constantly developing content on top of the insane prices of releasing and marketing a AAA game in the first place. Usually these games make money through microtransactions and/or subscription fees but no one wanted to play the game in the first place so hardly anyone was buying any of the extra content after initial release.