Dev compensation

Just a thought here, but Valheim was a huge hit for the parent company and sold over 8 million copies. I really hope that the devs got their fair share of swag from this work.

I'm sorry, but I just hate it when good work has been done by the "little" people and they don't even get SOMETHING besides a tap on the should and a moist handshake.

Does anyone know if they got at least a good bonus?
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Brakiri replied to Dev compensation November 23, 2021 @ 7:29:29 am PST

Originally posted by Anarchist Jurisdictor:
The game was 20 USD, Steam took 25%, publisher took at most 40%, the Swedish government took another 50%, let's go ahead and dock another 20% for business fees in Sweden, and there were 5 developers originally as far as I remember

8 000 000 * 20 * 0.75 * 0.60 * 0.50 / 5 = 5 760 000 USD per employee

Given that the devs have taken 2 months of vacation this year and it's not even holidays yet and they purchased a horse and donated it I'm going to guess that they got a decent amount of lunch money, yes

That sounds good...thanks for the info :)

If I may ask: How did you find out about the horse?
(I mean I can find out via google NOW that i know about it but still...)
6:13 pm, November 23, 2021
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SanguineSage replied to Dev compensation November 23, 2021 @ 7:57:18 am PST

they took what money they got and ran ♥♥♥♥ of pandering to trash who scam games, use spyware ♥♥♥♥ like discord, and censor people.
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GunsForBucks replied to Dev compensation November 23, 2021 @ 8:07:01 am PST

news tab at top
https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/allnews/

may 28 big picture of horse
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/892970/view/3035968700877261597

Pretty sure if you "follow" them on the store page it will put the new stuff in your activity feed to read or check it in Library page.
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Anarchist Jurisdictor replied to Dev compensation November 23, 2021 @ 6:50:37 am PST

The game was 20 USD, Steam took 25%, publisher took at most 40%, the Swedish government took another 50%, let's go ahead and dock another 20% for business fees in Sweden, and there were 5 developers originally as far as I remember

8 000 000 * 20 * 0.75 * 0.60 * 0.50 / 5 = 5 760 000 USD per employee

Given that the devs have taken 2 months of vacation this year and it's not even holidays yet and they purchased a horse and donated it I'm going to guess that they got a decent amount of lunch money, yes
3:13 pm, November 23, 2021
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DerpTron replied to Dev compensation November 23, 2021 @ 7:11:32 am PST

I hope they are coding on diamond encrusted keyboards.
3:13 pm, November 23, 2021
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