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Amazon baffled that throwing money at a problem doesn't work (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/gaming

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It's really interesting to see how out of touch with reality these folks are, really an eye opening article.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Anyone who saw Rings of Power knew this.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The baffling thing about RoP is that they had a budget multiple times greater than the Jackson movies and still made substantially worse looking armor and weapons.

Like, forget the scripting issues, how do you not just hire as many of the same companies as you can find?

I thought the first season had its moments but some of those armors... Oof.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

That wasn’t the case. In 2023 dollars, the LotR trilogy had a budget of around $513 million, eventually resulting in about 12 hours of finished product. RoP has a budget of about $150m for around 9 hours. So the trilogy spent $42m per hour compared to RoP’s $16m per hour.