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@philipwhiuk With enough foresight, intellect and wisdom it is quite easy to overcome the lack of experience. If he has a clear purpose in his mind and researches the proper way to pull it off then he can very well succeed.

Also take note that around 50% of a game's budget is normally spent on marketing and inefficiency. If he's able to cut those off completely, he may see his dream come true, although I'll agree that having more available capital would be better, safer.

@Synthetic *raises glass*

To hope in WildStar and its payment model! May it rock our minds and soothe our wallets!

@Utakata You didn't "state the obvious", you just simply ignore the meaning of "hardcore" in a gaming context so do yourself a favor and question yourself first, Google things before writing them.

@Mikx You better read the ArenaNet dev blog again because you didn't understand much of it TBH.

@h4ngedm4n No. The first comment does.

What the article does is re-state a thing that every human above 16 years of age theoretically has already figured: there is no such thing as perfection (or, if you prefer, there are "infinite perfections").

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Online? HELL YES!!

@DarkWalker ^ Basically this. I find it ridiculous that my avatar's strength comes from some over-the-top items rather than personal growth in power and expertise (skills aside, of course).

Also a deal breaker: 30-foot bosses that stomp my avatar's face for less than his total HP. Did I miss something here? How does that even work? Meh.

Tried it. The game WILL fail with their current business model. Hurray for wasted investment money.

@Alph Oh, and to clear the thing about hi-res textures: they can easily do what many games did! What IS that, you ask? Making them optional to install.

@Alph In the world of economy and finance assumptions are the main weapons. Keep in mind that assumptions are based on previous information.

Basically it's extrapolating information from previous states of the/a market/market entity, taking that info and merging it to create a behavioral model for said market/market entity.

Seeing how inefficient big companies are, seeing how much money other companies have spent on creating MMOs of this scale and sizing up the amount of advertising SWToR has had it's pretty much a safe bet to say EA/Bioware have spent way more than 80 million.

Yes, it's an assumption but it's not baseless. At all. And saying these kind of assumptions are meaningless and useless (things you DID NOT directly say, of course) is just a sign of ignorance and/or close-mindedness.