How much does it cost to Produce a decent 3D MMORPG?
Ok before the flaming starts, a little bit about me and my intention
I'm your average College kid, not really a mmorpg maniac. But i played quite a lot when in high school. Couple of ones i loved were Gunbound, flyff, water margin and Perfect world online.
The thought of this thing originally came up about 6 years ago when me and 4 friends watched the anime HxH. There has been many attempt for 2D mmorpgs by people and of course the official 2D/3D games, but all failed.
We thought there are way too many elements in it and the potential for a successful mmorpg is massive. Now of course these were all just bullshits and imaginations back then. Fun stuffs such as the celestial tower, greedisland, hunter exam, ren, nen, hatsu etc etc.
Now of course looking at games like WOW, it must've costed hundreds of millions of dollars at this point or maybe not? But it has to start off at some point. Me and my friends were victims of certain events 2 years ago, half a year ago our cases were set by our lovely lawyer. We got quite a deal of compensation. Now 5 million usd is definitely not enough to complete a game like perfect world/wow, but it should get it started and fairly far into development should it not? Many of you gonna say we have no life or w/e the heck you want. HxH is something we loved, and making it into a great game has been something we look forward to. Who knows, it might be a good chance to start off a business that we enjoy.
We're not here to sell our products, asking for donations or hiring anybody. Just opinions from the best of the best mmorpg players here on onrpg. Things like copyright etc etc will be there, but it can be dealt with money of course.
What you can expect from smaller business/starting businesses is that we will do things fast. Waiting years for a korean to English translation is simply stupid. Opinions are all we ask for. And of course the main question, does it require a lot to start a game off?