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Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs (kotaku.com)

submitted 11 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 31 points 11 months ago

wtf I never heard of this game before. How come a game that cost ~$140 million had virtually no marketing except for Will Smith posting it on his youtube channel?

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 10 points 11 months ago

I think we're seeing the marketing right now.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Rich People's ego. He thinks his "name" is enough that he doesn't have to market.

[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

95% of the budget went to paying Will Smith.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

The post-apocalyptic zombie shooter allegedly had more than 300 developers on it and a budget of nearly 1 billion yuan (around $140 million)

The word "allegedly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. There is no way on this Earth that a mess like that cost $140 million to develop, unless somebody pocketed $130m of that and then just outsourced the rest to a tinpot Z tier studio.

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Will and Jada are scientologists so that's exactly what happened.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago

He wishes he got that from it, and looks like he was barely involved other than a quick poorly made advert and use of his face. It's not even his voice in game.

The whole thing looks like it was thrown together in Unity by a dozen people from mostly stock assets. If that figure is anywhere near accurate then Tencent got scammed.