Has video game budgets spiraled out of control? How can vanillaware make such an awesome game with such a tight budget, yet studios with literally 80 million can't?
This also works the other side, how can indieshit get hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickstarter handouts yet produce trash games in RPG maker?
I think devs lose their focus with money and time.
Art through adversity
Vanillaware starves themselves and mainly do it for the art. Yes that's admirable, but clearly not sustainable for the much bigger companies.
>>340220873
the fact that a 1million dollar budget is now considered 'entry level' or low budget itself should really speak volumes
>>340220976
The point is that studios waste money on irrelevant things instead of just focusing on the game. I'm looking at you kojima productions. Instead of spending money on dinners with kiefer and joost, why not make the game? They clearly lost track, because the game was never finished and a massive disappointment for all of us. Their budget was huge too.
Also take fallout 3, why have liam neeson as a voice actor in that game? What value did it add other than bloating the budget? Literally anyone, an aspiring voice actor, would do it for peanuts
Most of the larger budget usually goes into marketing
>>340220873
Because the companies that get the huge budgets have giant teams of people that don't always coordinate well. They also need to try and make the game as accessible to as many people as possible to get as many sales as possible to make their investors happy.
Indie devs on the other hand just get lucky sometimes and have retards throwing money at them to make some game that promises to appeal to their tastes. Then it gets revealed that the dev doesn't know what the fuck they're doing with whatever half baked plan they had.
Do you know how much pizza it takes to make a single good quest?
Each game model takes over 100 hours in photoshop. Do you know how many goddamn pizzas that is????
>>340220873
Big companies waste their money, 90% of budget goes to marketing and irrelevant shit.
true story
>>340221425
Hollywood accounting requires them to spend more money. If they actually made a huge profit on paper, they'd have to pay taxes!
>>340220873
Marketing, son.
>>340222030
that's disguting. Did they really need it? Especially GTAV, wouldn't that shit sell itself? Why do they need ads everywhere?
>>340222475
m8 that's nothing
>360 million dollars marketing budget
