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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9515774" data-attributes="member: 18">Find me an actual journalist reporting anything of the sort.Go on.I'll wait.What you've linked there is not reporting. And to be fair to it it's not purporting to be reporting!It's pure speculation - as it admits! There is literally nothing in that article that isn't speculation. It's literally guesswork x guesswork x guesswork and it's not even well-informed guesswork.Furthermore, even there the actual development budget they estimate is $80m! Then they guess, using the 50% guess which I mentioned earlier in the discussion of Arcane's budget, for marketing - but game marketing varies far more widely than movie and TV marketing - and the article admits they have absolutely no idea.But don't misrepresent speculation with absolute no facts as reporting. It's not the wildest possible speculation, but it is pure speculation.And no, the article does not state $250m is reasonable, why say that when it's in the article? Did you think I wouldn't read it? What the article says is $200m isn't entirely impossible as the make and market figure - but their own math doesn't support that - Veilguard would have needed to have had a much, much larger team to have cost that much. That's like speculating that Destiny 2 cost over $1bn to make and market, which people did do, but that turned out to be a bunch of nonsense.The article also contains at least one misrepresentation, too - it says that being "woke" didn't hurt BG3 - it didn't in the end, but not for lack of trying. Many of the exact same people who attacked DAV attacked BG3 for being "woke" and kept saying it would be flop. I discussed this here just a week or so ago, maybe even more recently. Many people made videos saying that BG3 was both "woke" and featured "bestiality", and no, they weren't joking, they were serious. As soon as it became obvious BG3 was going absolutely huge despite their attacks, and that this was going to be embarrassing for them, maybe lose them subscribers and clicks, they started frantically deleting those videos (and Tweets and so on), and either pretending they never said it, or claiming that they were just speculating and actually BG3 isn't "woke" because it does [insert stuff they call 'woke'] in a cool way maaaaaan.</blockquote>

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