• InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Does this mean that the other 109K wasted their money?

    Because I thought, I read somewhere that the developers pulled out. Which I assume means that there will be no fixes dor the known issues.

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      8 months ago

      109000 copies at $40 minus the 30% steam cut. That’s about 3 million dollars they’re walking away with.

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            8 months ago

            Valve doesn’t pay out until the end of the month typically the following month. So yes so long as they meet the policy of 2 hours, and under 2 weeks.

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            8 months ago

            I saw someone say that Valve holds back a portion of the revenue to cover potential refunds. If that’s true, I wonder if that’s calculated dynamically as it sounds like this is a higher than normal refund rate.

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        8 months ago

        LOL, after what, 5-years of dev time? That’s a monstrous lose.

        Pretend there’s only 5 devs, at only $100K/yr. $2.5M in salary, and total payroll costs an employer anywhere from 20-50% more. And then there are benefits. And leadership pay and hardware and hosting fees and software fees and… And if that’s all they made, they are seriously underwater.

        All together, house and all, I’m about $100,000 in the hole. I’d rather be me than them. :)

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        8 months ago

        Really? If that’s true that would be the most bizzare thing about the whole situation tbh. Not in a bad way though.

        Do you have a source?