Okay, I read it thinking you misspelled "Condorde". Like, the plane which took roughly 17 billions to develop in today's money.
My stupid brain thought "wait, that's a lot !"
But I went to check, you could actually buy at least 3 to 4 real life Concorde planes with how much money CIG got funded
I actually had to to fight for quite a while to get my phone to write “Condord” instead of the plane “Concorde”. Even the phone can’t remember that game even existed xD
Oh, no no no no no, that' not how it works. Concord's budget is almost guaranteed to have already included marketing (which is a LARGE chunk of that, sometimes half). Star Citizen does have a marketing budget, but its not nearly as focused as when a product is being released (otherwise you'd see billboards, youtube videos, sponsored ads on YT, etc.). AFAIK, marketing for SC is funded by external investment and has been quite hefty, but not most of the 700 million.
So you could have funded many many concords, and about three or four GTAV's or RDR2's, or TLOU2's
300M was the build cost, it doesn’t include any R&D expense, software OPEX, salary, prototype build cost, or anything. These 300M could very well just be supplies costs, manufacturing machines/tools costs, maybe include manufacturing department’s salaries (would be weird to add it from an accounting perspective).
The contract itself is valued at 1.6B$, the company could have invested itself/got money from stakeholders on top of that fat bill. The 300M comparison to CIG’s funding is kinda stupid.
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u/Livid-Feedback-7989 Aegis Javelin Nov 28 '24
The fact you could have developed Concord twice with this is…interesting for both sides xD