StarCraft II Budget Oopsie, Preorders Soar

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The Wall Street Journal corrects their recent report that the development budget for StarCraft II has exceeded $100 million USD. They say they were referring to the wrong game: "Activision Blizzard Inc. hasn't disclosed development costs for its 'Starcraft II' videogame. A July 16 Technology article about the 'Starcraft' sequel incorrectly said the company spent more than $100 million to develop the game; that figure referred to its 'World of Warcraft' game." Thanks Big Download. On a semi-related note, VGChartz has preorder data for StarCraft II, showing the real-time strategy sequel has 684,000 preorders, and they expect that figure to top out at 750,000 before next week's release. Thanks joao.

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Re: StarCraft II Budget Oopsie, Preorders Soar

Jul 23, 2010, 20:16

Veterator

WoW cost of development had to be pretty large just because they spent over a year beta testing the game, and probably longer than that on smaller tests. But the stage WoW was at for a year prior to it's launch was pretty close to the release quality of most MMOs in the past but they kept modifying it to make it more appealing (elites to dungeons, talent trees/rebalancing trees, whatever else). Most games at that point in the game say screw it after a month of testing and release whether the features are in or not. So they spent over a year just addressing and adding things to make it more diverse. It wasn't a perfect game by any stretch, but the time they spent modifying things and re-testing is something the rest of MMO companies don't do when the game was in the shape it was in. They would dump it on the market and depending on how well it sold they'd deliver features they promised on the box.

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	1.	Jul 23, 11:04	Re: StarCraft II Budget Oopsie, Preorders Soar	Xirix
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