Government tallies total budget for free-to-play first-person shooter and expeditionary recruitment tool's prototypal decennium of development.
The America's Army program of free-to-play PC first-person shooters that double as recruitment tools has outlay the US polity $32.8 meg over 10 years, according to accumulation obtained through a GameSpot Freedom of Information Act request.
The government's period America's Army budget has ranged from $1.3 meg to $5.6 million.
The US Army prototypal revealed America's Army in 2002, although expenditures on the send began in 2000. At the time, it was touted as a five-year send with a budget of $7 million.
The PC mettlesome conventional a sort of updates and treatment packs before a genuine sequel, America's Army 3, was launched earlier this year. It has also spawned a unify of Ubisoft-published console spin-offs, America's Army: Rise of a Soldier for the PlayStation 2 and original Xbox, and terminal year's Xbox 360 mettlesome America's Army: True Soldiers.
While operating America's Army 3 does involve ongoing expenses, stipendiary the game's original utilization aggroup isn't one of them. Days after the mettlesome launched in June, representatives with the Army addicted that ties were severed with the Emeryville, California-based aggroup behind the project, and forthcoming utilization efforts were being consolidated at the America's Army program duty at Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
A decennium after its initial foray into the world of gaming, the Army doesn't materialize to be withdrawing from the business anytime soon. In denying other aspects of the FOIA request, the Army expressed "disclosure of this aggregation is probable to drive substantial alteration to the Department of the Army's combative function in the recreation industry."
America's Army year-by-year budget summary 2000--$3,500,000 2001--$5,600,000 2002--$1,862,985 2003--$2,600,000 2004--$3,866,482 2005--$1,288,552 2006--$4,050,748 2007--$2,788,137 2008--$3,887,450 2009--$3,395,702
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