From: xenon AT headwaters DOT com (Joel Skrepnek )
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Subject: Re: Publishing a game
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:23:24 GMT
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On 21 Jan 1997 13:12:49 +0100, mdekker AT wins DOT uva DOT nl (Martijn Dekker)
wrote:

>tudor AT cam DOT org wrote: 
>
>:jonklipp AT freenet DOT edmonton DOT ab DOT ca wrote:
>:> Should be, but it ain't :)  It kinda sucks actually, the publishers
>:> usually make lotsa money and the author doens't get that much.  Think
>:> about this:  If your 10% (for example) is $50,000, then the publisher has
>:> made $450,000.  Ouch. :)
>:Do you know any ways to get ridd of this shit ?
>:I'm not making any games yet :) but I would consider creating games as a
>:hobby(i.e. 3D or real time strategies).
>:I wouldn't like workin my butt on that game then takin a shitty 10% when
>:the publisher gets 90% and 100% of the work is myne!!
>:How do companies like lets say Origin stand this ??  
>
>I think because the alternative to this '10%' is probably '0%'.
>in other words, they need the publishers.

	Ok, so how much of that 90% goes to publishing costs.
Couldn't a larger company like Origin self-publish their titles and
save themselves the cost of a middle-man (or woman).  Does this
happen?
>
>
>-- 
>Martijn Dekker
>UvA - Math department Universiteit van Amsterdam
>PFF - Computer Games 
>http://turing.fwi.uva.nl/~mdekker/pff/  (Xcogitate, Templar)

-Joel 
programmer of 10+ uncompleted games
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