Blizzard denies StarCraft II development cost report

[Tinman]

StarCraft II development cost rumours debunked

Previous report citing US$100 million development costs refuted by Blizzard

[Jabberwocky]

I`m really interested to see how the sales go, I don`t recall any pc game that has had this amount of hype. Publishers will also be watching to gauge the potential PC market.
I hope it does well, regardless of the bad things that will make the norm...

episodic releases, each more expensive than a normal game
no lan
that subscription thing with the russians... if that is still true I hope it fails in russia.

[fayainz]

Holy crap almost 5 Billion rand! I have no doubt the Game will sell extremely well. And this is just the first of 3 games. Either way you look at it they stand to make an absolute killing.

[Wolfskunk]

So it a few months worth of WoW subs, $15x12000000? Having a near infinite source of money must be nice for Acti/Blizz.

Yes it a broad generalization not taking into account any expenses, but considering it made up a HUGE chunk of their profit(according to Bobby "the prick" Kotick) they must be coining it and their games must have some serious budgets, which are probably quite flexible.