Talk:Volt/Prime/@comment-2001:8003:34C5:E200:8C7A:D089:A2CD:60D2-20180203101546/@comment-14475-20180312232049

To address your "yet another money-grubbing scheme": I calculated how much DE's annual operating costs are almost 2 years ago, which was ~6,500,000 CAD / ~5 million USD (or 105.4 million plat).


 * $110/month for business internet
 * $2,000 per workstation, including 2 monitors (How much do great PCs cost now?)
 * $750 per laptop (assuming they're not used for intensive activity).
 * $3,000 for Miscellaneous office costs.
 * $??? for camera/lighting equipment, mocap, audio booth.. I stopped researching costs, too lazy. Fairly certain it's muy expensive though.
 * $3,500 annual business Software licenses; couldn't find a listing for zbrush.
 * ~$5k = Monthly Utilities. PCs, servers, air con all siphon large amounts of energy.. oh and insurance.
 * $37,500 = average cost of living per person residing in Ontario; Multiply that by the number of DE employees.
 * Now that DE has 170+ employees, salary costs alone are $6,375,000