[BNG] Infinity Ward Declined Big Budget for Modern Warfare 2 - Overclock.net

JKBenchmarks · 1 Week Ago

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You'd think a blockbuster title like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would have a insanely massive budget. We learned from Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling that this wasn't the case. In fact, Infinity Ward declined the ginormous budget Activision proposed for the game and managed to stay frugal.

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No wonder the campaign is shorter than MW1's. This is actually pretty smart. They know that any Call of Duty game will sell many copies, and if they spend less money to make a bad game that will be bought up as much as a more expensive good game, they will make a lot of money.

Opeth07 · 1 Week Ago

why raise the bar when you could lower it and still make tons of money?

kilrbe3 · 1 Week Ago

Wait though, I read a article from VG or Joystiq or one of those past few weeks saying Activision gave them the biggest budget to date in their company.

bruestle2 · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by kilrbe3

Wait though, I read a article from VG or Joystiq or one of those past few weeks saying Activision gave them the biggest budget to date in their company.

And they turned it down!

(This is the 2nd article that has said this)

JKBenchmarks · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by Opeth07

why raise the bar when you could lower it and still make tons of money?

Exactly.

Damn, I wish I had stocks in Activision before WoW and CoD came out.

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Originally Posted by kilrbe3

Wait though, I read a article from VG or Joystiq or one of those past few weeks saying Activision gave them the biggest budget to date in their company.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/03/initial-modern-warfare-2-budget-was-ridiculous/

"Much like we don't let ourselves get distracted by hype, if you have excess you feel like you should use excess," Bowling said. Even though Activision "estimated out a ridiculous budget" early on, Infinity Ward "didn't let the budget affect [its] mentality." Since Infinity Ward apparently didn't take the money (or, at least, all of it), we do have a pretty good idea of what Activision spent it on: night-vision goggles for everyone!

LunchboxDDS · 1 Week Ago

/sigh. Can't wait to pay for map packs too.
They refused the larger budget so the game should have a cheaper MSRP right? Wait...

Timlander · 1 Week Ago

Im a bit tired of seeing MW2 stuff around here. We all know its one of the most fail games ever. Lets move on...

Opeth07 · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by LunchboxDDS

/sigh. Can't wait to pay for map packs too.
They refused the larger budget so the game should have a cheaper MSRP right? Wait...

just like how games distributed digitally SHOULD BE CHEAPER, but of course consumers wont see that trickle down effect. its greed, quite simply.

pcnuttie · 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by timlander

im a bit tired of seeing mw2 stuff around here. We all know its one of the most fail games ever. Lets move on...

agreed!

-iceblade^ · 1 Week Ago

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Obviously Infinity Ward is more concerned about the quality of their games rather pumping as much as they can into the games, which should be a breath of fresh air to gamers.

keyboard and mouse support, and ingame chat, amirite?

i can't help but think that site is console centric

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Originally Posted by Opeth07

just like how games distributed digitally SHOULD BE CHEAPER, but of course consumers wont see that trickle down effect. its greed, quite simply.

part of that has to do with server costs. i know they should be cheaper, and i agree, but it isn't that simple

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