• mosiacmango
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    4 days ago

    Didn’t they make 10-100s millions of dollars on this? Pays a lot of salaries while you make new paid content.

    EDIT : They made at least 12 million sales on steam, and had 7 million players on Xbox, which may be Gamepass, but still makes them money.

    So at $30, that’s 66million from steam minus 30% for steams cut, so they banked 44 million at least.

    They can pay 440 devs 100k for at least a year. I assume their team is a bit smaller than that, so they likely have years of runway. Linkedin lists size as between 50-200 in japan, so that likely means they are making $50-70k, and there are likely more than 100 devs. I would guess they have a 4 year runway from Steam sales, and maybe 1-2 year from Gamepass.

    They got some time to think.

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      According to their careers page, they have about 60 employees. And, knowing japanese game dev salaries, a lot of those devs (excluding senior devs) probably make around 30-50k a year depending on seniority unless it’s a unicorn company.

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        Yeah…that changes the numbers. More like 10-20 years to do just about anything.

        Somehow the urgency just drains right out of this for me.

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      no line must go up, only up, up now and up tomorrow and the days after too. fire all the devs too, paying them makes line go down.