• Mac@mander.xyz
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    1 hour ago

    IMO, canceled games are a bummer, even from publishers we don’t like.

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    6 hours ago

    Oh good, yet another $300m disappearing into the ether. Wonder if this will also be a tax write-off

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      4 hours ago

      Did it disappear though?

      80 employees in the LA game market. Probably not all engineer or engineering related but plenty of managers and such, average salary plus benefits was probably 250k/yr at 6 years that’s 1.5 mil per employee so half that 300 mil was probably employees. Equipment and office space and software licenses. Any marketing materials they may have already invested in. The money didn’t just go poof, it paid people and other companies.

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        3 hours ago

        I’d largely assume it disappeared into the black holes otherwise known as the C-Suite’s bank accounts.

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      6 hours ago

      Not sure that would compete with GTA

      Not really, but that won’t stop prople from making that comparison. The number of comparisons Cyberpunk 2077 got to GTA V at launch were insane considering how different they are.

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        It’s an open city sandbox game from the perspective of a criminal/outlaw. It’s not close like Saints Row, but it’s still a general comparison os opposed to like an FPS