Quote:Original post by jungolaya

Quote:Original post by idinkin
Read this: http://www.igda.org/online/IGDA_PSW_Whitepaper_2004.pdf.

Holy Crap! Thanks dude...that's exactly what I was looking for!

The reason everyone's panties are in a bunch is because you could have easily found that information yourself, had you done research. A "bank manager" usually knows to do that. IGDA is one of the first places I looked.

Now, why couldn't anyone answer your question? Because you said you want to make "a mmo". Not what kind of MMO, not whether you're creating your own engine and hosting in-house, or whether you're using Ogre3D and Blender. You said your dev time will take a year, which either means you have no clue what you're doing or that you're good friends with John Carmack.

All I can give you is what it's costing me, and we're doing niche small budget with everyone working for free.

$25,000 for development and launch, including lawyers and accountant costs.
It isn't certain what the live bandwidth costs will be, but it's estimated to be $1 per player per month.

That's more an answer than you should get, Mr. "Dude" Bank Manager. ;p

No one has mentioned some of the most expensive portions of making an MMO.

Media creation- producing source art, in game models, game world, etc is very expensive on an MMO project.
Advertisement- without this, how will people know about the MMO? adverts are very expensive.

You said:
-develop a high-end mmo using a licensed engine (assuming 1 yr dev)

Does a licensed engine mean a middleware solution as well? The solutions out there are not cheap, and you maybe be suprised at how much is actually does cost.

Development of an MMO off a basic codebase in a single? Very possible. It will just fit in with most the other MMOs floating around with half the population they bottomlined in their plans.

The reason I didn't mention the art is because he hasn't mentioned what kind of MMO he's making. If he's decided to license the rights to Order of the Stick ( http://www.giantitp.com/cgi-bin/GiantITP/ootscript ), then his art costs will be minimal. ;)

Really, the cost of the thing depends on what it is you want to make.

Dude you can't create a high end MMO in one year. Just look at Wow it has been in develpmont for 3-4 years until it was realeased.