On America's Army

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  the $7 million has already been spent, so it has to be divided by 2 years. : mrquackers
  • no: "The budget for "America's Army" is in the $7 million range." that's not "cost untill now". budge... : BadRespawn
  • That figure was for the three games Anachronox, DK, and Deus Ex combined. : Mantle
  • WRONG THREAD AGAIN : Mantle
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  Most experienced programmers are making significantly more than $2000/month as are artists, designers an... : Fred Garvin
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    Most of them are probably army personel so they don't take salary into budget would be my bet. : Chicks Dig Me
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      Experienced game devlopers in the army? : Fred Garvin
      • I think he saw programmers and didn't realize that you meant IN the game industry. : Vorlonesque
• its $7 million for the first two titles : Maarten Goldstein
• space and computers are on an army base i think. all they pay are the programmers and time. plus runni... : paynter

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  It's free, no need for a demo : Slaykill
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    oh...I forgot to read that part. This is way cool! Yeah, but one way or another we pay for it. Maybe thi... : mofo
    • No maybe about it. This is meant to spark interest in joining the Army. : cacktrot
• Realism != good gameplay That said I haven't played SOF2 so I can't speak for its gameplay. : Vorlonesque

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• This is coming out of the Army's marketing budget. 7 million seems like a lot of money, but keep in mind... : Serpico74
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  You don't join the Army to get rich. Idealy you join the Army or any other military branch because you t... : cacktrot
  • Ideally....I'm sure there is less than 50% that are ideal however... : grandmasterlee
• But they already trivialize the lives of soldiers, by feeding them that line of 'god and country'. S... : highlow

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  yeah right, we're no Battle School students. : archon
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    Well in one of the forums, a moderator said that it was meant as a educational tool : fluffy64
    • still, I don't think too many of us here are child geniuses. : archon
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      Of course, and when they can monitor aptidude, if they can't already, then America's Army = Ender's Game... : grandmasterlee
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        Wasn't Ender's Game him sending soldiers to their deaths through playing what he thought was a game? We ... : archon
        • I thought those REALLY good programmers were trying to program the missle defense. : wretchedmage
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          Yes, and eventually you must assume that there will be people controlling killing machines remotely from... : grandmasterlee
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            and they hand this over to anyone that wants to download it? no. : archon
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              My implication is that the Army could one day use casual looking marketing games like this to find peopl... : grandmasterlee
              • That's because they loathe it when you diss their beloved empire and military too. They need somethi... : highlow
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        and aptitude at this has no relation to holding a real gun : goatsecxy
        • If I were measuring aptitude with this game, I would look at reaction times, tactics, and the adaptabili... : cacktrot

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  The reports that I have been reading have been inaccurate so far as banning goes (at elast based on what... : Serpico74
  • that sounds like a logical thing. since the army from what i remember from the pc gamer ad said they wer... : paynter
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    That sounds like a good system. It's still going to suck when someone is stupid and runs into your line ... : cacktrot
    • its gonna be cs all over!!1 : paynter

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  "From the makers of Redneck Rampage? Ok..." Those are the same guys that made Return To Castle Wolf &... : buckshack
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    Where did you see the Return to Castle Wolf? the quote: (the developers previously worked on hit g... : Foozmelon
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      The guys that did Red neck and Kingpin ARE the same company that did RTCW. Xatrix did them and turned... : buckshack
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        not really though. Gray Matter wasnt exactly Xatrix, just a bunch of guys from that company. : Maarten Goldstein
        • Close enough:) : Dobbs
        • ahh so maybe none of the guys NOW at grey matter, are working on it, just former folks from Xatrix. s... : buckshack
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          Xatrix folded to avoid contracts, etc is my guess. Gray Matter is the same company in terms of owners. : Fred Garvin
          • owners sure but not employees. : Maarten Goldstein
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    I guess I should do MORE research lol. ops : buckshack
    • There's like 2 people from the RR team working on this game. It's like saying "From the guys who made st... : Soldier Blade

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  I heard Medal of Honor Allied Assault took 15 months to complete. Severance: Blade of Darkness took 6 ye... : Erwie
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    daikatana took.. wait I shouldnt go there :) : Unleashed
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      heard that game cost 30 million : wretchedmage
      • The $30M (actually I thought it was $25M) figure was for the three games Anachronox, DK, and Deus Ex com... : Mantle
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    Blood 2 took only... around 12 months. Some times they should take longer to develop the game:) I... : Dobbs
    • I can remember seeing previews of Blood 2 along with screenshots more than one year before release and t... : Erwie
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  money, not time. I know about time, but game budget figures are seemingly always kept out of sight. : the archvile
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    yeah, this is the first time i have heard a games budget : Turd Ferguson
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      there was a news item on the shack a few months(or maybe a year?) on how much it costs to develop a game... : halfwaybastard
      • bah i can't find it, tho...I didn't look that hard *cry* sometimes I don't think you even care anymor... : halfwaybastard
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    I heard RTCW costed over $10 million. : Erwie
    • That seems like a huge amount of money for one game. : Anti_dentite

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• that's how i feel about your momma. :-) (i can't resist a good opportunity for a your momma joke) : kruel
• i'm hoping they'll put in some actual tactics training. that could be fun and informative, and usefull i... : BadRespawn
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  I know, and even if it's fun I'm scared that every server I join will be full of recruiters trying to st... : fluze
  • Ooh man, I didn't even think about recruiters playing!!! Haha I shoulda joined the Army a year ago to be... : SatansFist

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• it will if the geeks are the ones operating and maintaining the networking etc side of operations. : horizon

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• That's obvious as we already paid for it. : Mastaba

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• but the people from other countries don't :) And they can play with it, like me :) : Erwie
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  no one complains about TV commericals and movie comercials : jackalope
  • I couldnt care less.. I actually like the army, and my taxes(small portion anyway) are going to somethin... : Unleashed
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  any other form of advertising/propaganda/recruiting material is also payed for by taxes. : BadRespawn
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    at least this way it has a chance of being something fun, as opposed t commercials which just suck no ma... : Turd Ferguson
    • you didn't like the marine fighting the giant monster commercial? : Karnov