Originally Posted by SirJames 
25 million is kinda bullshit though.
What? 25 million is pretty much the standard budget for a modern AAA game, especially an RPG. BioWare's games are probably a ways over 25 million a head, and Bethesda's games well over. Again, they were asking for that kind of money because they wanted to do something like DA:O. You really think they were pitching "we want to do an Infinity Engine game!" to Atari. Really?!