How much does it cost EA to make a pack?
I've read online that at minimum a full-fledged game takes at minimum $3 million to make. Obviously 99% of the time it's higher than that-for example, No Man's Sky cost $10 million over several years ...
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(A normal wage/month *100-200 people) * 6-12 months should give you a rough estimate. I assume that around 100-200 people are making these packs (at least that's the amount if people involved according to credits) and them making a pack like this should take something between 6 months to a year.
If we say this pack took a year and was made by 100 people, and for simplicity, all people have a yearly wage of 24,000 USD (lowest average in the US), then this cost them at least 2400000 USD in salaries. In order to cover that, their packs would have to sell 120300 copies. (1 copy costs about 19.99 USD I believe)
And that's with the lowest average wage, not counting any other costs. Raise the wages to something like 60,000 USD and they need to sell over 300000 copies. And according to their credits they are around 200 people (but I am not counting all of them because they work on other things as well).
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not living in the US so I could have calculated something wrong here.
I don't think they will have any problem selling 300 000 copies of the Star War pack, however due to the negative backlash they might not get their money back as fast as they wanted.
If we say this pack took a year and was made by 100 people, and for simplicity, all people have a yearly wage of 24,000 USD (lowest average in the US), then this cost them at least 2400000 USD in salaries. In order to cover that, their packs would have to sell 120300 copies. (1 copy costs about 19.99 USD I believe)
And that's with the lowest average wage, not counting any other costs. Raise the wages to something like 60,000 USD and they need to sell over 300000 copies. And according to their credits they are around 200 people (but I am not counting all of them because they work on other things as well).
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not living in the US so I could have calculated something wrong here.
I don't think they will have any problem selling 300 000 copies of the Star War pack, however due to the negative backlash they might not get their money back as fast as they wanted.
