Through the game sales alone where do they spend all that money if not on improving the game and make it better and better and employ more and more people and become as big as Blizzard is with all that revenue they get?
Zelorxon4 votesI bet it costs millions to come up with that bullshit of shyvana nerfs (the "rework", not the 20% nerf) or to gather for like 20 minutes in an office and throw darts at a whiteboard and then write down some nubers.
I'll give you a few examples of where all those money go -Krepo's gym costs -Yacht fuel -Nu-Males employed at riot that basically smile, shake hands, shitpost on twitter and eat donuts all day -Overpriced stuff
And after all that they still have to spare to -Pay wages to the employees -Infrastructure maintainance -Logistics -Advertisement -Content creation -And all the legit stuff one may expect from a corporation
If you think that they put 100% of their income in developing the game you're really naive and/or don't know how money moves in this world. Oh also the content of a wallet of a single day of a wall street employee could end homelessness in a big city in the united states. And there are hundreds of "celebrities", "politicians" and "public figures" that waste ridiculous amounts of money every single day.
fyi
FeeNeeX1 votesI bet it costs millions to come up with that bullshit of shyvana nerfs (the "rework", not the 20% nerf) or to gather for like 20 minutes in an office and throw darts at a whiteboard and then write down some nubers.
I'll give you a few examples of where all those money go -Krepo's gym costs -Yacht fuel -Nu-Males employed at riot that basically smile, shake hands, shitpost on twitter and eat donuts all day -Overpriced stuff
And after all that they still have to spare to -Pay wages to the employees -Infrastructure maintainance -Logistics -Advertisement -Content creation -And all the legit stuff one may expect from a corporation
If you think that they put 100% of their income in developing the game you're really naive and/or don't know how money moves in this world. Oh also the content of a wallet of a single day of a wall street employee could end homelessness in a big city in the united states. And there are hundreds of "celebrities", "politicians" and "public figures" that waste ridiculous amounts of money every single day.
fyi
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Hauling Ashe4 votesEmployee salaries Facility upkeep Server upkeep Advertising Champion/skin concept and merch artists Probably web software licensing PayPal and bank fees for champ, skin, and merchandising purchases Third parties who manufacture their merchandise Contracts with shipping companies like UPS Events staff Arena rental for professional events Travel and hotel expenses for events staff Material used at events Gimmicks and cash awards for professional events
and in some cases, legal fees
flibitydoo1 votesserver upkeep in particular
most users playing but most users playing a f2p which means a lot of that playerbase isn't actually paying for server costs
Jalkan2 votesbecause they owned by tencent
redniwediS1 votesJust because billions are spent on a product does not mean those who made it earn billions. I can tell you right now Riot does not have a net income in the billions.
FeeNeeX1 votesJust because billions are spent on a product does not mean those who made it earn billions. I can tell you right now Riot does not have a net income in the billions.
yeah but http://i.imgur.com/PSaKJAZ.png
and thats from 2013-2014
redniwediS1 votesIs that net earnings or not? That's the key here.
vampirekid131 votesmost of the money is used to pay the salary for about 4980 employees more than they need to maintain a game like this.
(assuming riot employs 5000 people)
GhostOfTsushima2 votesriot does not have that much employee, guarantee they don't
because if they did
The people working there wouldn't be so brain dead about how they make the game and shit
vampirekid132 votesriot does not have that much employee, guarantee they don't
because if they did
The people working there wouldn't be so brain dead about how they make the game and shit
someone from riot said they have 5000 employees in 2014. i dont know about now, but i used 5000 because i know at least that many work for riot.
S0kaX2 votesAaaand if most of the money is used for salaries than each employee would get around 200 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR EVERY 1 BILLION PER YEAR
vampirekid132 votesAaaand if most of the money is used for salaries than each employee would get around 200 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR FOR EVERY 1 BILLION PER YEAR
i love your math. i really do. like....its awesome.
i said there are 5000 people working for riot. (this was a true number back in 2014, now it might be more)
if you take a billion and split it 5000 ways each employee would get 200000, which is about a low end salary in silicon valley where riot is based.
but anyway, keep up the math.
S0kaX1 votesMy bad, used too many zeros in calculator
