I appreciate the class conscious sentiment… but this game has 500k players right now. So ~$10,000,000 in sales in 24 hours… for a game that probably had a budget under 200k.
I doubt it was under $200k. Paying 3 devs for 7 years is likely $75-100k each per year, or around $700k on just their salaries, which they paid with their sales from HK. Then they had to pay the composer, localizers, bug testers, etc etc. it’s definitely still low budget, but not as much as the first one.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I appreciate the class conscious sentiment… but this game has 500k players right now. So ~$10,000,000 in sales in 24 hours… for a game that probably had a budget under 200k.
steamdb.info/charts/
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I doubt it was under $200k. Paying 3 devs for 7 years is likely $75-100k each per year, or around $700k on just their salaries, which they paid with their sales from HK. Then they had to pay the composer, localizers, bug testers, etc etc. it’s definitely still low budget, but not as much as the first one.
Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Okay lets make it 1Million budget with 10Million sales in 24h. The point remains.
pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s funny that Hollow Knight is also in top 20 on Steam right now with 50k players.