An early version was created in a year for less than $5 million by a team of 40 developers.... Bluehole "effectively disrupted the market," Benchmark Co. analyst Mike Hickey said. ....A tentpole game from a big publisher, meanwhile, often takes hundreds of employees years to make and can cost tens of millions of dollars if not more, plus additional spending for marketing.
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