The 200 Million 6 hour literally on rails interactive movie with guns thread (Bioshock: Infinite)

So would you all say that this was a better ending than Mass Effect 3?

 

Silence from God Cain tells us all we need know.
He saw it was shit, and did not waste his valuable time playing it.
Bravo Tim Cain!

 

Oh please. People will buy this in droves.

 

What sales would that have to be? 15 million?

 

They better have the money to pay those critics to give the game a REALLY good rep then.

 

My God, this thing have to sell at least 3,3 million copies to break even, if the publisher could get the whole $60,00 from each copy.

 

Publisher gets back some $40-45 a copy. That's about 5 million sales to break even. I can see that, but it's certainly not a good rate of return unless they get much, much more sales than I think they will.

 

Please don't. Or we will have to suffer from Bioshock Infinite infinite.

 

They already have a season pass planned. You could tell they're desperate to move it given the number of 2K promotions for preordering (including previous bioshocks, X-Com, $20 credit, etc.) Sad that $200 million goes into making shit like this -- Fargo could make forty good games with that.

 

Or that the Bioshock series wouldn't exist.

 

Only in ANOTHER parallel universe sadly.

 

I don't think anyone could make forty good games on any budget. But Fargo could probably make better ones than Bioshock Infinite.

How is the game length-wise? Whats our investment-to-playtime ratio nowadays, 20 million dollars per hour? 50 million per hour? It's disgusting to think about.

EDIT: Apparently around the 5-6 hour mark. So we're looking at ~35 million dollars per hour of playtime. Including non-interactive cutscenes and all of that bullshit. Say what you want about TOR but at least Bioware managed a lot more content for those who love the MMO treadmills.

 

Fair enough, it's hard to make forty good anything. By all accounts Bioshock Infinite is about 8-12 hours. As noted I'm sure a good $50 million of that is marketing.

 

Two hundred million dollars on a bullshit game that lasts what, maybe ten to twelve hours of REAL gameplay?

 

If you can call that gameplay.

 

God fuck, I hope this ruins his career, JUST BECAUSE HE USED TWO HUNDRED MILLION TO MAKE AND MARKET THIS SHIT GAME!!!

 

For comparison sake a third of the teams in the National Hockey League are valued at $200 million or less.

 

Magic of 2013, make it so!

 

Haha holy shit, $200,000,000 for a video game. We live in a fucking bizarre world. How in the hell did they spend that much money on the game? Did they have superbowl ads or something?

 

My bet would be 10-30 millionz on the game and 190-170 millionz on marketing and important devs such as "strategic consultant" or some BS like that. The sad thing is that we will not see this money spend on graphix because consoles.

 

I'm still watching, but wtf is this? Its so railroaded there's no actual paths until the AI Dues ex machina allows you on them?