According to court documents, the development and support of individual Call of Duty games from 2015 to 2020 cost publishers a huge amount of money, between $450 million and $700 million. about this stated Patrick Kelly, the series’ creative director, in a case file discovered by Game File.
In particular, more than $450 million was spent on the development and support of Call of Duty: Black Ops III (2015) (43 million copies sold), while more than $640 million was spent on Modern Warfare (2019) (41 million copies sold). and more than $640 million – more than $700 million in Black Ops Cold War (2020) (30 million copies).
Journalist Stephen Totilo notes that this is the largest game development cost ever publicly disclosed by a major company in the industry, significantly exceeding all previous estimates and information leaks. For comparison, The Last of Us Part II’s budget was around $220 million.
Development cost data was provided to Kelly as part of litigation related to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde (2022). The plaintiffs blame Call of Duty and Instagram (the owner of Meta company is known as extremist and banned in Russia) in part for the tragedy, arguing that the games and the social network influenced the teenager who committed the crime. The three Call of Duty games Kelly mentioned were among the games the shooter actively played.
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Source: Gazeta
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