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You get those shitty publisher terms because the publisher has no idea if your game will be good or not. Why would they commit to spending anything before they
by socialist_coder 12y ago
You get those shitty publisher terms because the publisher has no idea if your game will be good or not. Why would they commit to spending anything before they know what kind of revenue & retention your game will have?
If you release your game yourself to a limited market, prove it has good revenue & retention stats, then shop around for a publisher, you get much better terms.
- Negitivefrags 12y agoWe did release the game ourselves and generated good revenue and retention. I'm certainly not complaining about our current level of success. The (non-asian) publishers still come out of the woodwork to offer you these kinds of garbage deals. We just don't take them. The fact that we were already successful is why these leeches turn up in the first place. These "publishers" are essentially glorified and very expensive user referral programs.
- DannoHung 12y agoMaybe they should ask to fuckin' play the damn game so they can decide whether it's worth a marketing spend.
- hnnewguy 12y ago>Why would they commit to spending anything before they know what kind of revenue & retention your game will have? Why would you sign a publishing deal if you know that your game has awesome retention and big revenues? The idea is to share the risk.