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21833: RE: [MUD-Dev] MMORPGs & MUDs

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From: Brian Hook <brianhook@pyrogon.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:18:58 -0800
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
Mike Sellers wrote:
> Derek wrote:

>> MMORPGs take between 5 and 10 million dollars to produce.  I know
>> because I just finished our financials for our next project.

> I'd add that those numbers are on the conservative end.

And I'll add that they're only that expensive if you're trying to
compete on content size.  It's entirely possible to build a
reasonably good MMORPG for, say, $2.5M, if you're willing to make
trade offs.  There is a fixed cost associated with launch, customer
service, bandwidth, etc. but the vast cost is going to be consumed
by content generation.

Brian

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