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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9515379" data-attributes="member: 18">Nah.[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/animation-shows/arcane-showrunners-defend-the-league-of-legends-spin-offs-reported-usd250-million-budget-the-money-is-just-a-reflection-of-the-amount-of-effort-that-was-put-into-this/[/URL]The showrunners are pretty specific. It was $250m to make AND market Arcane.Most budgets you see listed are solely the "to make" cost, with the marketing being on top of that (usually around 50% more, but it can be as low as like 10% or as high as 200% - I think Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 might even have hit 300% of the dev cost on marketing - but it paid off, that game sold insanely well).So the actual budget-budget of Arcane was likely about $170m or so, for all 12 hours. Which is much cheaper than, say, a two-hour animated movie, which has been typically in the $150m to $250m ballpark for decades (most Disney and Pixar ones are pretty close to $200m and indeed have been since 2010).It's expensive for an animated show, but extremely cheap for twelve hours of the quality of work we saw.S4 of Stranger Things was $270m to make alone - marketing would be on top of that (and it got a lot of marketing). S5 is expected to cost more (the salaries of the main cast alone are over $80m! God knows how much money those kids have now!).For sure and there's got to be a reason to do it. Like, the subject/story has to be inherently visually interesting and kind of require animation to do it justice. I think with the examples earlier you could fairly easily argue that for Drizzt's life in the Underdark, which is an insane-looking place populated largely by non-humans, but you couldn't argue it for the Icewind Dale Trilogy.</blockquote>

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