Anyone else wondering how HL2 cost Valve $40 million to make?

[nbk]

I agree with ^^^

 

[sgt.hemp]

What about steam. Was this part of hl2 buget to get all thoese content servers up. How much is it costing them to run all the content servers and pay for the bandwidth ? I think they must have spent alot of time on steam to get it ready for the hl2 perloading to make sure no one could get the game before it was unlock or be pirated.

 

[AgentXen]

I know of many games with longer play hours than that that have cost significantly less to produce.

those games (gta San An)
Have repetitive gameplay. ex. Go here - drop this off, go here - get that - drop it off, fly here - drop this off, sail here - pick this off - drop this off. over and over.

 

[tommy1987]

people get paid more to do the jobs that no one else wants to do.

....Oh so is that why dustbin men are all millionaires

 

[Sanius]

playing through Half Life 2 and seeing what they've been doing for the last 7 years.... : $50

fixed :E

 

[Dagobert]

I doubt they got 100,000k, I doubt they even got 50!

You are talking 80k minimum for a Valve employee.

 

[BrimStone04]

2 months for hl1? hl1 is polly like a rougly 30 hour game to the average person, if u beat hl2 this fast, then the extra 10 hours takes u 1 month and like 2 weeks to do.....i beat hl1 in like 3 or 4 days, it wasnt hard, but hl is all about replay value.....its all fun and u can load of one of ur checkpoints and have a instant blast