That's a pretty bad publishing deal!

Game Dev Tycoon
#1

Less than 1$ per copy sold.
9.75 rating, second office.

Are deals supposed to be this bad ?

#2

LOL They seriously thought your game was an Xbox Arcade indie game. Wow

#3

Deals can be this bad in real life.

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#4

I suppose. But for games shipping past 11 million copies ?
It just seems extraordinarily bad, considering most new hit titles go for 20$ - 60$

#5

Well usually Devs that are working with publishers won’t have 11M copies sold of their game.

But just like in Game Dev Tycoon, publishing deals are meant to get a larger fan base and not make a lot of money.

#6

For deals you get a certain %, like 10 or something. I assume the number you see is what you got, and not what it made in total. The rest of the money went to the publisher(s)

#7

Wow that does look pretty bad. Anyways before you sign up with a publisher, there is a royalty percentage you can see with each one (they vary). However, I haven’t seen them go THAT high, and so I assume that the average person won’t encounter a royalty higher than 20%

#8

Yeah, I often wind up needing to take the low paying jobs because I don’t want to screw up or because they’re the only ones where I have the appropriate topic researched and/or license available. You often wind up making less than one dollar per copy sold if the royalty is 7 or 8%

#9

Just take the ones with high rating and royalty, the penalty amount isn’t that high

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#10

You accepted it, right? :wink:

Maybe it was sold in the Humble Bundle, hmm?

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#11

Well … And with those 11M+ games sold, how many fans did you get ? Don’t forget that’s the only use of a publisher : make yourself a good fan base

#12

yeah sure, games get sold in the humble bundle below 1$ right after release :wink:
i think it’s a balancing problem but they might want to fox this

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