{"id":6792,"date":"2010-07-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"starcraft-ii-development-budget-soars-past-100-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/6792-starcraft-ii-development-budget-soars-past-100-million","title":{"rendered":"StarCraft II development budget soars past $100 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704682604575369093457494042.html\" target=\"_blank\"> WallStreet Journal<\/a>&nbsp;article has revealed that over $100 million has been spent on developing StarCraft II, which is due to be released later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Kotik was quoted as saying &#8220;There is no shortage of consumers for StarCraft, &#8220;For a game that is more than ten years old, there&#8217;s millions of people still playing it.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>StarCraft and its expansion Brood Wars have sold a combined 11 million units.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Development on StarCraft II began in 2003. Full scale production, however, only kicked off in 2005, and the game was announced to the world in 2007.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>$100 million is a lot of cash, even for a massive AAA scale video game. However, as a poster over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/29485\/Report_StarCraft_II_Budget_Has_Exceeded_100_Million.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a>&nbsp;points out, one month of World of Warcraft subscriptions more than pays the entire cost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 year development cycle racks up massive costs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}