• flamingos-cant@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    How do you spend 250 billion million on something and the only way people hear about it is the memes mocking how much of a failure it is? Is Morbius just the standard Sony marketing strategy now?

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      Shit like concord somehow gets released, and yet stuff like Project Dragon gets scrapped even though it was weeks from announcement and 3 months from alpha release (if I remember correctly)

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      2 months ago

      Well approx $250b less than that 😉

      Was curious myself:

      …Concord is not some small indie project, but one that took Firewalk reportedly 6-8 years to develop. The exact budget is unknown. Estimates are around the $100 million mark, but there’s no firm sourcing at that. Even half of that would be a $49 million loss, currently, with essentially no current room for improvement.

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      Sony had NEVER been good at marketing online games. SOE was legendary for not advertising anything for any major game expansions or releases, relying entirely on word of mouth.