Re: Dom3: Expansion Pack
Some people think it's so easy. Dominions has a huge code. And really complicated. And there are many people that know the game better than devs.
Saying "write code from scratch" is easy. But doing so would take tremendous amount of work. I don't think that Johann is able to do it [as it'd have to be in newer language, which more sophisticated and time-taking solutions to handle all that we'd want]. And chance that they will hire someone to just do that is slim. It would be at least one year of coding, let's say 2-3k$ per month. Add new graphics on top of that [you wouldn't want sprites anymore, right?]. With the amount of units we have, let's say we can maybe get a good deal and get it done for just $500k. Or try some worse 2d quality, to get it to $100k. You'd also want to hire a guy to make AI, another $10k here. They probably get no more than 1/3rd of money from that $50 it is selling for. So it makes for minimum 50k copies sold to break even.
[those were just estimates, I may be totally off with those numbers, just wanted to say smth to those that think it's easy and cheap]
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