I searched online and sources from years ago state that Funcom lost about $50 million on this project, one of the biggest flops in video game history at that time.
But, with Secret World Legends, TSW kept going and had a chance to earn a profit or at least break even. Did that ever happen now that we’re about a decade later?
Really? I had never heard the The Secret World was such a failure. Do you have a handy link available?
I knew it wasn’t a huge hit or anything, but to have lost Funcom $50 million seems…amazing.
Apparently it was actually $52 million:
That kind of explains…everything. Heartbreaking.
I checked and saw that all of the “news” on what a catastrophic failure TSW was date to the launch year of 2012. Meaning, I suspect, that Funcom put $52 million into building the game and didn’t instantly make it all back. If TSW really were as bad as they imply, it and SWL wouldn’t still be here. Break even? Who knows. But it must be making Funcom money.