There is also no average for salary. You keep making these conflicting broad statements that are false. First you said you don't care about marketing because you assume that all companies pay the same amount. This is patently false. Then you say that you only care about development cost because you assume all companies are paying the same amount. This is also false - even in the same region. There is no standard $$ for either. This is my last post and if you decide to comment on my comment and again say something that is conflicting within the same paragraph i promise not to respond.
You have quite the imagination. I never said anything about marketing budgets being the same across companies - that's something exclusively in your own head.
I said all games HAVE marketing budgets - so there's no reason to single that aspect out as unique and particularly worthy of note, as I could never establish how much money Larian and the other companies spend.
I CAN make an educated guess as to team sizes and paychecks - but that would require knowing the average salary for each country - which I don't, which is why I asked you.
I've also said absolutely nothing about all companies paying the same amount - that's also exclusively in your head.
I can only suggest you stop imagining what people say, and - instead - read what they say.
I specifically said, several times, that I was curious about the salary DIFFERENCE - so how on Earth could I have believed they were the same for all companies? That makes zero sense.
I also specifically pointed out that salaries were different in Maryland than what you claim they would be in California - which is another clear-cut sign that I obviously know they're not the same.
I don't know if you actually read anything I write here, so maybe it's just a wasted effort overall.
Btw the average salary you look up is for major companies. Larian is not a major company and nor are the 100's of indie houses. You do get some data from, for example, department of labor but that is specific to usa and it makes a lot of assumptions which tend to break down with small companies where the standard deviation is quite high and % of labor that fall into contracts and part-time might be quite high. I'm not sure about europe or canada reporting and i'm fairly sure that places like russia the data is extremely unreliable.
What nonsense is this? The average salary is the average salary - meaning it's neither for major or minor companies. It's called AVERAGE for a reason - which is just a baseline from which one might make some educated assumption.
There's no way to know exactly what developers are paid in a given company - unless you happen to work there or have some inside information.
That's, you know, why we need to check out the average salary.
There's no such thing as an average marketing budget - because there's no law in place to protect people here (as no one needs protection in this case), which is the difference between marketing budgets and paychecks. Companies could be spending 99% of the combined budget or 1% of the combined budget - there's just no way to know for sure.
Anyway, you sound like you don't have the first clue what you're talking about - which I already established at first, when you made claims about the salary difference, that you failed to back up.
So, seriously - I'm done going in circles with you.
