Dungeons now purchased separately. (Destiny)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 08:16 (1137 days ago) @ squidnh3

The people who design the Dungeons most likely do not make 200/hr.

I'm talking billing rate, not salary. As in, what would it cost me to pay Bungie to develop a Dungeon for me. So that includes overhead (which I noted is probably quite high for video game development), health insurance, etc., distilled to an hourly rate. For reference, I have a PhD in Structural Engineering and 7 years of experience, and I bill at $150/hr, but make less than 1/3 of that. The construction industry is relatively mature compared to video game development and there's less upheaval, so I figure $200/hr makes sense for something highly specialized like designing and developing Raid/Dungeon encounters. Probably the initial designers and technical people bill out higher than that, the testers probably bill out lower so it'd average out.

Oh I see. Even factoring that in, my gut says it is not that high. But I guess there's no way to know is there?

Fun fact: Myth 1 took about a million dollars to develop the whole game. That's 1.7 million in today's money.

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Dungeons now purchased separately. - cheapLEY, 2021-10-19, 15:29
- Dungeons now purchased separately. - Cody Miller, 2021-10-20, 00:49
- Dungeons now purchased separately. - squidnh3, 2021-10-20, 06:08
  - Dungeons now purchased separately. - cheapLEY, 2021-10-20, 06:27
  - Dungeons now purchased separately. - Kermit, 2021-10-20, 07:05
  - Dungeons now purchased separately. - Cody Miller, 2021-10-20, 07:27
    - Dungeons now purchased separately. - squidnh3, 2021-10-20, 07:45
      - Dungeons now purchased separately. - Cody Miller, 2021-10-20, 08:16
  - Dungeons now purchased separately. - INSANEdrive, 2021-10-20, 13:35
- cool, when's the vaulting date tho? - Spec ops Grunt, 2021-10-20, 09:23
  - cool, when's the vaulting date tho? - Burchie, 2021-10-20, 14:21
- Bungie hates noobs. - INSANEdrive, 2021-10-20, 13:25
- Dungeons now purchased separately. - ManKitten, 2021-10-21, 08:33
  - That is the crux of it for me - ZackDark, 2021-10-21, 10:04
    - That is the crux of it for me - Cody Miller, 2021-10-21, 16:54
      - Aren't you the one that advocates for expansion packs? - ZackDark, 2021-10-21, 19:11
        
        Aren't you the one that advocates for expansion packs? - Cody Miller, 2021-10-21, 21:40
      - That is the crux of it for me - kidtsunami, 2021-10-22, 06:12
        
        That is the crux of it for me - Cody Miller, 2021-10-22, 07:41
        
        That is the crux of it for me - kidtsunami, 2021-10-22, 07:45
        
        That is the crux of it for me - cheapLEY, 2021-10-22, 08:03
        
        That is the crux of it for me - Cody Miller, 2021-10-22, 08:47
        
        I don't think they can - ZackDark, 2021-10-22, 09:12
        
        That is the crux of it for me - kidtsunami, 2021-10-22, 12:31
        
        That is the crux of it for me - cheapLEY, 2021-10-22, 13:04

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