Most of those include marketing too. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g... Star Citizen has the highest development cost.
It is also two games, not one. Squadron 42 is being developed separately and will release separately to Star Citizen.
They also had a failed attempt at Squadron42 developed by a partner agency that was thrown away.
I would imagine that any multi-hundred-million project has had unproductive branches, pivots and starts. Star Citizens has been been more public, so it's harder to compare, but I don't think many of the others on the list had a straight path to what was released.
Star Wars: The Old Republic 200
Star Citizen 215+
But again if you compare SC to SW.....
> But again if you compare SC to SW.....
They are both pretty much failures?
Expect only one of them took money from customers before having anything to show for it.
>They are both pretty much failures
If something is not finished you cannot tell :-)
But one of them are a failure.
But that's not so much for such a game, for comparison:
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" - $200 million
"Grand Theft Auto V" - $137.5 million to $265 million
"Destiny" - $500 million
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-expensive-video-gam...