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CD Projekt Spent Roughly $125 Million Turning Cyberpunk 2077 Around Post-Launch (www.ign.com)
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[-] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

How can that be so extremely expensive? I'm sure that money did not go into salaries for the devs, so where did it go?

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

headline number is only the equivalent of ~200-300 tech employee salaries for 3 years, less for junior, more for senior, less for designers, marketers, more for Directors, VPs, Execs...

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

It's funny that companies think we give a shit how expensive it is for them to operate. Just make something good. That's all that matters

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago

Idris Elba doesn't work for free.

Marketing isn't cheap either. Can't rely on word of mouth when that word is "shite". Fixing the code would have been relatively cheap compared to fixing their reputation.

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is nonsense. I got down voted for saying marketing lol

[-] mcc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Why do you think it didn't go into devs? Maybe you are being cynical, but managers and CEOs are definitely devs too, they need their extra motivation to convince themselves the game is gooder.

[-] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Are you sure? I never heard anyone refer to CEOs and managers as "devs" before.

[-] mcc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I am not being serious.

[-] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I see :)

[-] FunnyUsername@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Into the marketing to tell everyone how it's better now

[-] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Now that sounds realistic.

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