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Originally Posted by InfiniteStates
It costs the developer the wages, rent and bills for the duration of development. The publisher may or may not pay for this (in this case, not). And it also costs the publisher to release the patch via Sony/MS. None of which they will see in returns.
I don't know how much the manufacturers charge to release the patch, but the average game industry worker salary in the UK* is around ??30k/year (more if they're contract workers rather than permanent employees). So if you have 5 guys working on it for 1 month that is ??12,500 in salary, with rent and bills on top.
*Note - we get shafted compared to our US counter-parts, but then I wouldn't want to speculate on the Russian salaries.
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if people find I'm a bit partisan about this forum well its the quality of responses such as the above...
sincere thanks to all
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