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From: Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Kingdom Come Deliverance II Wins Big
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:00:47 -0500
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 10:12:02 -0700, "rms" <rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net>
wrote:

>>KDC2's development budget was ~$40 million
>
>   One steam comment mentioned they're basically using the same engine as 
>before, that would certainly help, and probably lower system requirements as 
>well.  Sounds like both these game require large time commitments, which 
>puts me off of looking into them more.

An amusing comment I read was that both KCD1 and KCD2 use the same
engine as "Star Citizen", and the devs have some sort of
technology-sharing agreement with Cloud Imperium (Chris Robert's
company).* But while "Star Citizen" so far has amassed $800 million in
development costs and hasn't yet come out of alpha, Warhorse Studios
(the KDC devs) have published both of their games, and it cost them
1/8 the price.

   [and frankly, from what I've seen of both games, I think KDC 
    looks a lot nicer but then, I'm more partial to trees and 
    castles than barren planets]

Makes you wonder what Chris Roberts is doing with all that money...







* I don't know if it's actually true, but it makes for an amusing
story ;-)