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Thread: Can the Starcraft 2 Franchise succeed financially?

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    Default Re: Can the Starcraft 2 Franchise succeed financially?

    Quote Originally Posted by Xyvik View Post
    I will fully expect you to eat your words and grovel appropriately when the new WoW expansion is announced at BlizzCon.

    SC2 will sell millions, but it won't sell as much as WoW. Maybe they'll do what they should have done instead of WoW and make an MMO based on StarCraft...? Who knows.

    Well let's see here....what does BlizzCon have for us? A new WoW expansion pack!

    *gasp*

    I guess that means they really weren't absorbed into working on SC2.
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    Default Re: Can the Starcraft 2 Franchise succeed financially?

    Quote Originally Posted by Nicol Bolas View Post
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    2 Programmers for 2 months? That's maybe $33,000 total, assuming ~$200,000 a year for each programmer (which is rather high for the videogame industry).
    What kind of programmer earns THAT kind of money?

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    What kind of programmer earns THAT kind of money?
    Quite a few, depending on the job. Just not (most) game programmers. Like I said, that's high for the industry.
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    Default Re: Can the Starcraft 2 Franchise succeed financially?

    You're not even including generous blizzard bonuses and pension and health insurance and stock options and all of that lol
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