Originally posted by Defiant:

To be *extremely clear*, It would be one thing if they hadn't sold well over 10 million copies. So a small indie developer charges $20 for their game, extremely reasonable, and they sell 10 million copies. They made $200,000,000 dollars off this game. That's one fifth of a billion dollars. Split amongst the five person development team, that's forty million dollars per developer.

And it took them two years to put out meaningful content? I'm sorry if I sound "disrespectful" here. Heaven forbid I expect people who make $40,000,000 releasing an "early access" game to actually finish the game in a reasonable amount of time. Heaven forbid.

Now obviously Steam gets a cut, which I think amounts to 25% - 30%, so to be fair they didn't make 40 million dollars each, they made something closer to thirty million dollars each.

edit; Also the 10 million copies record was last April. It's likely well past that now. So yeah, they probably have made 40 million each.

TOTALLY not how it works at all... Iron Gate did not receive the amount of money you assume they did.... Steam gets a pretty significant cut... Coffee Stain gets a healthy cut... The Devs didn't all become millionaires whatsoever.... The money that Iron Gate received probably went right into an account which is used to pay employee salaries and other inherent expenses... building, utilities etc...

HOW that money is split up or how it is used is none of our business whatsoever... NONE of us "invested" in their company... we purchased the rights to play the game, as it was (unfinished and still under development), at the time of purchase, with ample warnings posted to NOT purchase if you weren't happy with the state of the current development.

Beyond that, there was NO promises of when or how long it would take to finish the game, and also, they haven't quit development whatsoever, so that part is just plain false on your part... What do you think the current public test is all about??? it's to test the upcoming updates for bugs and balance...

Also , t afaik Iron Gate has hired more people... was 10 person team last I heard so that is also false on your part.

It's going to take years to finish development on the game, which is very normal, especially for a custom-made-from scratch game would be.

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