Soleron said:
$150k - 5% KS fee - 5% processing fee - 5% merchandise / 5 people / 1.5 years = $17k/person, not including their equipment and office space. Less than US minimum wage after those things are taken into account, that's not very sustainable. If it's being done out of love in their spare time I can better understand but then there's problems of delivery and motivation. |
Haha, I was just about to ask you for a breakdown of the financials.
So all those extra costs amount to 15% and leaves only +$100k to the actual development budget?
What I know is that these guys do have regular jobs at the moment, so maybe a couple of them (like the composer guy) will keep their jobs and just put spare time hours as a labor of love into the game?
Wait, I just realized you calculated in Dollars. This KS is actually in British Pounds. £150K.
I guess that would make it roughly $25-30k per person? That's not unreasonable isn't it? What's your own personal income for example, Soleron?
I mean, I have more than one friend who lives on around 1k Euros per month and that includes all expenses, even house rental.
If you don't have family (and I hope these guys in Bare Mettle don't lol), you can survive with quite little.
