500k sounds reasonable to me. I want to know the price they pay for full games though.

I will verify things for you if you want, Richard_Feynman. Personally, I don't think you need to "verify" anything to the forum-goers. It's a bit of info, that you felt like sharing, ANONYMOUSLY I might add, and people just need to deal with that. Take the info with the possibility that it's true, and the possibility that it's not. Otherwise it would be CONFIRMED NEWS. Thanks for the exciting info to hang on to. I always love to hear stories like this. Little indie dev's game is loved SO MUCH, that SONY is willing to pay half a mil, to get it on their PS+ offereings ON LAUNCH. That's a big deal, no matter who you are, especially small unknown indie dev. Thanks for sharing.

I will tell you why I believe: there is no indie game on Xbox One right now, the very few games on the Store cost a fortune and looks ridiculous, and it is like 2-5 games, at best. I log on the Store everyday and, let me tell you, it is a freaking bummer.
The PS4 in other hand, just gave me STICK TO THE MAN, and that game is a trip, amazing! And... FREE!
Also, I played the shit outta Don´t Starve and Outlast, which I still play to this day, there are a ton of indie games on PSN and some very unusual titles too, like horror games!
So, it is clear to me that the indie comunity is in love with Sony, and, sorry to say but this made me fall in love with my PS4 as well.

Let´s do it man! to the Gamedevelopermobile!

If you are friends with the developer then I dont understand how you could have such a large misunderstanding of the parity clause.  Unless maybe your dev friends never even bothered looking into it.  Either way, the info you gave on it is obviously wrong, as the parity clause has been explained countless times in recent months.  

I wondered if it could be DayZ but I just think it would be too obvious and OP would be in trouble for literally telling us what game it was. Successful early access game on Steam with a movie adaption in the works just screams DayZ.

I gotta go with Rust because Mojang wouldn't sell Minecraft for $500k? The rumored movie adaption fits with Minecraft though.. ARRG!

http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/minecraft-movie-warner-bros-lego-movie-producer/

I don't want to be the party pooper here, but if you were really a friend of the developer you wouldn't/shouldnt be talking about this in public.

As any devs here will know, talking about anything that is Non Disclosure/contracts could actually lose him the business, and even if he's signed (which is sounds like he hasn't yet), could also mean he loses business.

To me if I was being offered a large amount, i would not want some "Friend" telling people on the internet about it... it could damage their business.

The way he said the info was pretty safe, did not mention any names or anything. And it makes a lot of sense because MSStore is a freaking wasteland these days, there is nothing on Xbox One right now =/

I once dated a girl that looked just like this cutie eating the pizza, never could seal the deal though, a bummer =/

And, yes, I will rennew my Ps+ subscription in november just because of the free games, they rock both on PS4 and the Vita. Even my PS3 is getting some extra love because of LONE SURVIVOR =D

Edit: Nevermind...