WSJ: StarCraft II Cost More Than $100M

[Jul 16, 2010, 9:23 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) has an interesting game budget tidbit about StarCraft II, saying: "Blizzard's parent company, Activision Blizzard, has spent more than $100 million developing the computer-based game." Thanks GameSpot where they note that this figure represents development costs, and does not include the marketing budget for the real-time strategy sequel.

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Re: WSJ: StarCraft II Cost More Than $100M

Jul 17, 2010, 07:44

ASeven

BobBob wrote on Jul 17, 2010, 06:55: Funny how there are indie games that are more challenging and fun that cost only a few thousand to make, often only made by one or two people. Natural Selection 2. In truth I'm hoping this game breaks records sales and goes to the top of the all-formats charts, it might mean PC gaming comes to the forefront again, however with the bullshit policies publishers are making regarding games' designs I'm not entirely sure if that's a good thing in the end.

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	1.	Jul 16, 21:30	Re: WSJ: StarCraft II Cost More Than $100M	Zyrxil
	8.	Jul 16, 22:43	Re: WSJ: StarCraft II Cost More Than $100M	entr0py
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	2.	Jul 16, 21:45	Re: WSJ: StarCraft II Cost More Than $100M	ASeven
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	33.	Jul 17, 06:55	Re: WSJ: StarCraft II Cost More Than $100M	BobBob
>>	34.	Jul 17, 07:44	Re: WSJ: StarCraft II Cost More Than $100M	ASeven
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	56.	Jul 18, 07:14	Re: WSJ: StarCraft II Cost More Than $100M	Eldaron Imotholin
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	58.	Jul 18, 10:33	Re: WSJ: StarCraft II Cost More Than $100M	Eldaron Imotholin
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