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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Do you have a link for the production cost?
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It's been linked a few times in the thread. The 300 million number first appeared when the anonymous blogger from Bioware just shat all over EA and TOR. (The blog has since lapsed) EA went into damage control and denied hard. An analyst recently came out and said he thought it was probably only 80 million but EA has stated that this will be the most expensive game they've ever developed:
http://tor.zam.com/story.html?story=22435
And EA has developed or had a hand in developing a couple games that have exceeded the $100m price tag (GTA 4 being the easiest one to cite). The $300m price tag also seems unlikely, though there was some suspicion over how EA handled the info leak (panic). It likely falls somewhere between that and closer to the $150m to $200m range.
The reason the blogger was also being taken with a grain of salt was he was with Mythic which was "merged" (re: dissolved) with Bioware after the failure of Warhammer. Some felt that he may be exaggerating and going overboard just to try and do damage BUT with that being said most of what he predicted in regards to TOR has started coming true (emphasis on voice acting and sounds as a game selling point and release delays).