flagstaad said:
There you are partially mistaken, usually the developer gets paid in advance and usually a fixed amount, independant of the sales of the game and but they have some bonuses if the game gets a certain score in metacritic and certain amount of sales above a number defined on each contract. That is how a game publisher deals with the developers they take all the financial risk, and the developer gets additional work if the results were good or never get called if the results were bad. I am ok, with not supporting the developer if they work for EA, they are either own by them, or got more money from them in advance, so is fine with me not supporting them. |
You are correct that these are the type of ways developers get paid and each one depends on the game actually selling. If you are good with not supporting a developer who works for EA then you probably should be good not purchasing the game period. No matter how you spin it, you are only looking out for your own selfish priorities and adding some excuse to do what you want.
We really do not need to go further on this topic. I had typed a whole case study on the point but in reality it really doe not matter.
