Do people actually think that $500MM is a lot of money for ten year project? I don't think it is. In fact based on comments from DeeJ (there are 500 developers, working on this game) that amount would mostly be taken up just from salaries. I don't know what developers get paid, I assume they are close to slave labour though, 50-60k a year?? That doesn't include, infrastructure costs, marketing, rent, distribution, and probably a bunch of other costs I am not aware of since I am not in this industry.