>This has been confirmed to be true.Why?Why would anyone approve spending $500 million on a game from a series that’s already past its prime?There’s no way this could break even.Is Microsoft stupid?Or do they just like wasting their shareholders’ money?Are Microsoft’s shareholders stupid?https://x.com/shinobi602/status/2116209121795924237
>>750648474>Why?Because out of touch suits thought leftists would line up around the block for the lesbian girlboss.They did not.
Diversity and sensitivity consultants aren't cheap.
ASHA has clearly had enough of the fools' antics.
>>750648474Ashabros... I thought she was going to fix everything.
1 billion gaming budgets soon, you better get used to price hikes chuddies
>>750648729this game was already a thing before she joined no?
And these retards cancelled the snoystation 5 version, which was ready to ship. Bravo microshit
>>750648787This shit will flop so hard
>>750648474How can it possibly cost that much? I just don’t understand
>>750648474Just bite the bullet and patch that cheesy lesbo out of the game... or make her good looking at least.
>>750648789Do you think a shitposter would have critical thinkimg?
>>750648474500 million... they probably recouped that right?
>>750649315They sold 400k copies so they made 28 million.
>>750648787Call of Duty: Cold War cost $700 million to produce.But sales quickly covered the costs.But that’s Call of Duty,there’s no reason to allow a hopeless DEI trash game to cost $600 million.Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War cost $700M to make https://www.polygon.com/news/504702/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war-development-costs-700-million/
>>750648474Repostan, the $500 million budget ONLY for E-Day is retarded because it assumes The Coalition has only been working in that game since the end of Gears 5 in 2019 when in reality they have done other things since then like:>Worked on Gears 5 post launch support and campaign DLC>Development on Gears Tactics and Gears Pop>Had to help 343i ship Halo:Infinite before and after the original delay>Helped made Avowed with Unreal Engine>Helped inXile>Helped with the Perfect Dark Reboot that was cancelled>Helped Undead Labs with State of Decay 3 being made into UE 5>Helped Ninja Theory with Hellblade 2>Made the UE 5 tech demo The Matrix Awakens with Epic Games because a lot of ex-Epic devs from the Gears 3 days are still working at TC and know better the ins and outs of UE than even some people at current Epic>Made the Gears UE port to PS5>Helped Halo Studios with the Halo CE remake>Made E-Day$500 distributed across all of these sounds reasonable and par of the course, chances are that E-Day was done with the usual $100-200 like Gears 5. If we assume it ONLY was $500 for E-Day, then the whole studio balloons into a 1 Billion operation for 7 years because all their other work, 343i was sacked for less and Halo was a more valuable for Xbox than Gears. For example, Halo Infinite that started development in 2016 to 2021 was such a mess that was restarted multiple times in those 5 years that the budget ballooned into an actual $500 million and it took them another 5 years with an Unreal Engine remake to burn $200 million with the Halo CE remake which finally made Microsoft gut them
>>750649445man I never liked Gears, I'm not picking on the series or devs but most studios nowadays are spending so much money on their games it's crazy what the fuck is happening?
>>750649445They made not've made all the money back, but dunking on the chuds epic style is priceless
>>750649537You may be right, but even taking that into account, the game’s development costs are estimated at 200 to 300 million, not including marketing expenses.The game still won’t break even.Everyone except the UE5 engine team will be laid off.
>>750648474People are mixing up this stuff with ideologies. The ideologies play their part for sure, but the biggest problem is budget. It shouldn't cost this much to make games. It just shouldn't. That is issue number 1. Maybe woke is hurting sales, but the overblown budget is setting up an impossible goal. These games would most likely fail even without woke.
>>750648474Slow development cycles.High dev pay rates.Massive sales overexpectation.
>>750649645>>750649645>chudsWhat does the “own chuds” meme actually mean?How should your DEI nonsense “own chuds”?
What are they spending all that fucking money on? 100 devs being paid 100k is only 10 million a year. What else is the money going towards?
>>750649912desu? I don't know. I just post it because you react :)
>>750649985actors for live action captures I guess
>>7506489797 years of dev in one of the most expensive cities of Canada
>>750649747>Everyone except the UE5 engine team will be laid off.It's not like they haven't done it before, the bulk of TC are UE engineers, they kicked the story writer because they can rotate that for the next game, Gears 5 had different writers and even the DLC had another writer, senior concept artists might be spared tho.
>>750649537>then the whole studio balloons into a 1 Billion operation for 7 years because all their other workIt doesn't seem unreasonable to throw money at a team that is actually familiar with UE to the point they are doing all of that
Just make the next one with 360 graphics. Halo 3 graphics are actually nostalgic at this point you can just add new gameplay elements
>>750650185Why don’t they move to a cheaper city. Are they stupid?
>>750649985See>>750649537$100M alone went to helping 343 with Halo. TC is basically a studio that helps other studios with the technical side on Xbox because most of its devs are UE engineers
>>750650308>Why Hollywood just wont move to Oklahoma
>500 million EXCLUDES marketing budgetGood lord
>>750649645And how burning hundred of millions is "dunking on the """chuds"""?
>>750650339So that's why 343 was shut down? The were also costing money to other studios?
>source: Jason Schreier>check video:>Jason Schreier ''source'' is ''this is a real number between'' 0 actual sources are provided>retards believe him because he has a followinglmao
>>750649529I honestly don't understand how CoD can cost that much.It's a simple game with a linear campaign and small to medium sized multiplayer maps.Oh, and the file sizes are also incomprehensible.CoD is still unironically way better than slop like intergalactic and gears thougheverbeit, having a 500 or 600 million budget for those games is beyond unhinged and unsustainable - they'll never make their money back
>>750648474Izzat
>>750650267Microsoft kicked a fuss about 343 wasting 5 years with $500M and it only took another 5 years and wasting $200M with the most barebones remake ever to finally gut them, I don't see them giving a whole studio a billion for less time even if they do more. >>750651213Yeah
Retards actually believe this shitty game with less content than the 3 previous Gears, cost half a billion. How fucking stupid do you have to be? Because Jason the jew says so? Where is his proof?
>>750648474How does a linear 10 hour story game which doesn't even have big name Hollywood actors or licensed music cost 500 million to make?There is no way this is the actual number. The Coalition must have inflated their operational costs to Jew Microsoft out of their money.
>>750648474>Jason Schreier
KILL THE COALITION NOW ASHA!!!!!!
>>750648979It almost always means it was restarted from scratch multiple times. That's why Anthem and Halo Infinite also cost like $400 million each. Devs got 90% of the way through development ignoring signals from testers and test audiences that the game sucked, a suit from the C-Suite walks in and says "this shit sucks, what the fuck are you guys doing," they scrap it and do the complete opposite of everything it formerly was in their next attempt, but this also ends up sucking because there was no real thought put into any of the changes, C-suite comes in and fires some people and tells them to do it again, repeat. Each attempt costs $100 million. Again, this is what happened to Anthem, Halo Infinite, and a half dozen other bizarrely expensive modern AAA games.
>>750651715I would rather get Gears that the yearly CoD, the campaign is the decent and horde siege is pretty good it only lacks variety with more maps but it scratches that itch of killing locust in waves, multiplayer is a hit or miss depending in how much you like getting the entire gameplay revolving around getting one-shot with the gnasher. It doesn't have microtransaction for skins so at least is not a skinnerbox like CoD and their skin packs that cost $40. CoD is just a meh series now, outside of zombies and Blops 6 zombies were more miss that hit, never tried Blops 7 because of that.
>>750649529how the FUCK does a yearly title cost that much to make??????
>>750652668>Halo Infinite also cost like $400 million$500 million actually plus whatever they siphoned from other studios like The Coalition that also wasted time helping them and even Turn 10
>>750651715>>750649529The difference between COD and Gears is that COD has the content to back it up between the campaign, zombies and PVP. On top of the expensive celebrities as game characters and the live action trailers with even more celebs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb2SNOeHusoGears has none of this so it doesn't make sense for it to cost 500 million. The figure is either wrong or a misunderstanding.
>>750650525People have been avoiding filming anything in CA for years. Atlanta, Detroit, Texas, and Canada are where most of those people film now. Hollywood is actually doing really shit at the moment.
>>750648912>Elden Ring by Neil DruckmannNo chance. It's going to outsell GTA6. You'll see!
>>750648474too many middle managements usless shit with high salaries, that's why microsoft wants to fire 60 000 people, excuse me, "buy them out"remember during covid all these tiktoks of white women filming "a day in my life" and in those videos they barely worked and spent their days drinking latte and eating at the cafetaria
>>750653603Gears has 3 main modes but one can tell the game was made around one with Horde Siege as the base with how these big maps show up in the campaign, visually it looks amazing but that's a given because the people working are masters of Unreal Engine and probably have some old heads from the Epic days that retain a lot of knowledge, their biggest collab is with Metallica as skins and that's it. Makes sense that figure is floating around is just the budget of TC as a whole from the past 7 years like even some insiders were reporting.
>>750649645Billions have been wasted fighting chuds
>>750652935CIA
>>750648474Honestly, I wish the Coalition and People can Fly would make something else, Like a sequel to Bulletstorm.
>>750652095>The Coalition must have inflated their operational costs to Jew Microsoft out of their money.We already know studios sit on their ass doing the bare minimum for years just to keep the money rolling in. It's a scam.
>>750648474Half a billion dollars and it has a memory leak that crashes the game after running for 2 hours
And people wonder with Mommy Aisha fired all these people
Where's the audience for gears of war to begin with though?
>>750655960Back in the early 2010s.
It took me a whole minute to find a horde match today and then it wasn't a full lobby. Is it dying already?
>>750655960The most recent Star Wars movie flopped doesn’t mean there isn’t a Star Wars fan base it’s just these franchises don’t have as much mass market appeal anymore doesn’t mean they can’t be popular again though
>>750655960Dudebros?Probably haven't touched a video game in like 15 to 20 years.
This shows how out of touch Asha is. She canned the finished PS5 port because she thought GoW: E-Day would be the next big game. This is why a gamer should have become CEO rather than someone who has never played a video game before and so is impressed by anything.
