50 Million Dollars to be Spent on Upcoming 'Dark Millennium' MMO

By Mark

A lot of money is going into upcoming MMO title Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium with THQ looking to pump around 50 million dollars into bringing the game to launch. Paul Pucino, chief financial officer of the publisher, spoke at the Wedbush Morgan conference last night and stated:

"Somewhere in the area of $50 million or so to get these games to market, certainly in that range for Dark Millennium," he said. "What you want is a game like this to be successful and the development budget gets higher.

"It can continue to generate over a long period of time - 5,6,7, 8 years of high operating margins and a significant amount of cash,"

While being coy about how many subscribers the company is looking at, with those time figures it's clear the publisher is expecting Dark Millennium Online to have quite a long lifespan. Let's hope that this is money well spent and goes to creating a quality MMO experience.

Source - GamesIndustry.biz