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Originally Posted by MarchHare
The average programmer/designer/artist/etc. working on a computer game earns *much less* than $100k per year. I know several people who work in the game industry, and none of them are in it for the money. Civ III certainly would have cost more than $1M to produce, but I don't think it would have been more than $2-3M, if you only factor in the costs of actually developing the game (i.e. excluding marketing, packaging, distribution, etc.).
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Huh, I would have assumed more.
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Since anyone who owns a copy of Civ III can create a custom scenario for virtually no money, I really don't understand how this could have cost $1M to produce.
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That I completely agree with. But then again, isn't this a government project?