Monopoly Go is the highest-budget video game so far.
Monopoly Go is the highest-budget video game so far.
Not GTA, not Star Citizen, not any game with actual gameplay, story, or anything like that.
Just a freaking Niantic reskin for freaking Monopoly.
I live in the wrong timeline.
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Why was it so expensive?
Literally all marketing. $1B in marketing.
I honestly feel kind of proud that I've never heard of it. Off the grid and shit.
I'm hardly "off the grid", but I've managed to get enough distance between my eyeballs and the fire hose of ads not to see it more than tangentially, while pocking around the Google Play store.
I do pity anyone who doesn't have the kind of tech-friendly elders willing/able to scrub all the bloatware off their retail devices, though. Had to spent an hour de-contaminating my mom's new Samsung because of all the random extra adware packed into it. And with newer mainline devices, it feels like a constant struggle. Heaven help anyone on Windows 11.
I’m the one who my friends turn to for tech advice and omg I am so horrified that some of them never installed an adblocker before. Or just leave preinstalled garbage like mcafee around…
A lot of the modern devices make uninstalling a pain in the ass. Especially if its native bloatware that's been bundled with the OS.
I had to pull up ADB so my samsung would stop recommending me disney plus, a preinstalled app called "AppCloud" has an undismissable notification that offers you sponsored apps.
Ads. $1 Billion marketing budget.
Imagine what a gaming company with a $1billion budget for the game itself (and execs who stay the fuck out of the way instead of repeatedly changing direction...cough...EA.....cough) and a marketing budget for whatever they actually spent on the game. We could have had Cyberpunk 4154 with a bit left over.
To be honest, I think there is diminishing returns on more money (look at star citizen for example).
I feel like it would end up a live service game (where the extra money results in content over a long period of time) or just become bloated.
i think it depends on how you go about it, like imagine if you just went back in time and bought the Fallout rights from bethesda and told obsidian entertainment that they can stop crunching and just keep working on the game as long as they want, and then when they feel finished they get a nice bonus (so they don't feel like they have to keep drawing development out to keep the salary) and after that you just sponsor modders until your money runs out.
Go on now, git! Didn't nobody ask you 'bout no logic!