Then I’m the first.
i hope this money gonna get used for improvements on this game rather pushed on another passion project.
5 years early it was.
2016.
The devs announced well in advance the sales number goals to begin development of additional campaigns. Not sure of the size of the development team but $250k USD (I’m assuming it’s USD since that that is the world standard reserve currency) does not seem like a huge sum of money for any business to develop any new product.
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Yes its dollars.
$250k much money for states of former SU.
Maybe much money for product,but idk,its hard question.
Gajin and DF are spread out across Europe, not exclusively Russia.
But DF from Latvia(poor state how and all CIS),gajin from Russia.
Gaijin is an independent European video game developer and publisher established in 2002. It has offices in Germany, Cyprus, Hungary, Latvia and Russia with hundreds of talented developers. Our HQ in Budapest alone has more than a hundred of highly professional developers working on online games for PC and consoles**
Owner is Russian, but according to their website, they are spread out across Europe with HQ in Budapest, Hungary.
Really this, that’s not a lot of salaries even if you underpay devs.
Even if they got paid as low as $50k/year, that’s still only 5 devs for 1 year.
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according to an old article cod modern warfare 2 needs 50 million to be developed (only the game), another example is the witcher 3 with 25 million (only the game), so 250 thousand dollars is practically nothing (I have not included the costs of distribution and marketing where it reaches over 200 million only for cod)
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if u take cod and enlisted. cut face animation actors voice(more than 10 lines) script cutscene ect
That’s not $250k for Tunisia, that was the $250k total crowdfunding milestone, and once we got there they’d have enough to do everything they’d promised already, plus add tunisia. Like kickstarter.
This is a F2P game, developed by Darkflow and published by gaijin. Darkflow already develops and manages CRSED, and so has that revenue stream to play employees, and the crowdfunding money probably served two purposes: contributing to costs associated with development, and showing that there was a ready market for what they wanted to make, allowing them to present the game more favorably to investors.
You talk like CRSED makes any money
If it didn’t, they’d shut the servers down or use the server time for a different game. Keeping CRSED playable costs money, and they wouldn’t do it for free.
From Gaijin website:
“Gaijin Entertainment will reinvest all proceeds from Enlisted into developing additional maps, game modes and console versions. The plan is to start developing the African campaign once Enlisted generates $250K in sales. More campaigns and new gameplay features, both chosen by players through online voting, will go into development with each goal reached and at the $1m mark, consoles versions will go into development.”
So, over $1million in sales BEFORE they began development of console versions. IDK for certain, but crowdfunding was likely ended before OBT.
It still isn’t over, technically, they’re just not setting new milestones or guaranteeing new features, since that $250k was all raised by selling the first premium squad packs and they’ve only added more monetization to the game since then.
The announcement that they’d hit the milestone for Tunisia development was made 23SEP2016, and Tunisia went into CBT 8Sep2021. First Open Pre-Alpha test for the game was announced 1APR2020.
This game has been in public testing for less than two years, and in that time has added three playable campaigns, new maps, new gametypes, new guns, and been made available on four additional platforms.
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So Cod and witcher its AAA games,no?
Your definition of “crowdfunding” is totally different than mine. This game announced over 200k unique users in the middle of Summer 2021. The game is “off the ground”