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<blockquote data-quote="keterys" data-source="post: 5698239" data-attributes="member: 43019">Yeah... none of us know the specifics, but remember that they had another software company contracted to provide the VTT - and they were demo-ing a totally different 3D-ish implementation at DDXP almost four years ago. Then, after years of problems, they had to drop it and turn to a new project which they started from scratch (sigh). Granted, I may be associating some of the costs of the Gleemax disaster with it, since it was lumped together at the time. I wouldn't be surprised if that particular bit of red ink was kept around though.A team working on a project for 4 years is about 2 million dollars. Maybe they managed to recoup some of the losses on the legal end, though, because they weren't delivered what they contracted for. Don't know.For clarity, I was citing 300k as a maximum... and it would not be bigger than MtG with those numbers afaik. I also suspect a lot of people on DDI are on the $5/$6 plan, but I am surprised it's been growing at that rate since they hiked the price.And with 100k users, that's all they'd be making on it... and presumably putting a bunch back into it for the continuing development of monster builder, character builder, virtual table and whatever the unannounced stuff is. Plus repaying the investment already put in. It's very easy for the gross and net to be nothing alike - Hasbro's gross is something like 4 billion while their net is 400 million.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="keterys, post: 5698239, member: 43019"] Yeah... none of us know the specifics, but remember that they had another software company contracted to provide the VTT - and they were demo-ing a totally different 3D-ish implementation at DDXP almost four years ago. Then, after years of problems, they had to drop it and turn to a new project which they started from scratch (sigh). Granted, I may be associating some of the costs of the Gleemax disaster with it, since it was lumped together at the time. I wouldn't be surprised if that particular bit of red ink was kept around though. A team working on a project for 4 years is about 2 million dollars. Maybe they managed to recoup some of the losses on the legal end, though, because they weren't delivered what they contracted for. Don't know. For clarity, I was citing 300k as a maximum... and it would not be bigger than MtG with those numbers afaik. I also suspect a lot of people on DDI are on the $5/$6 plan, but I am surprised it's been growing at that rate since they hiked the price. And with 100k users, that's all they'd be making on it... and presumably putting a bunch back into it for the continuing development of monster builder, character builder, virtual table and whatever the unannounced stuff is. Plus repaying the investment already put in. It's very easy for the gross and net to be nothing alike - Hasbro's gross is something like 4 billion while their net is 400 million. [/QUOTE]

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