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Posted by: BC1096
Also I may have read this incorrectly but I recall seeing 1 billion dollars allotted to the development of marathon? Or was it all of the games in general? Not sureBungie are released from certain clauses in the contract as sales of Destiny and associated products hits certain levels. For now they're allowed 5% of their total staff, and only 1 member of "key staff" (as defined by activision) on the project. When "operating income" hits $375m they're allowed 10% of staff, at $750m 25%, and if they hit the magic $1,000m mark they're effectively released to do as they please as long as they continue to deliver on Destiny.
Activision define their "operating income" as their income from sales less their expenditure on development, marketing, administration etc, so what most people would call gross profit. It's quite a high number, but given the sales of recent AAA titles (skyrim took $620m, for example, but quite a lot of that will not go to the publisher), and the amount of money Activision make off DLC and subscriptions, it's not all that unrealistic for 4 games, 4 "comets" and whatever other dlc, toys and trash they stamp the logo on.
[Edited on 05.21.2012 7:02 PM PDT]