Just Cause 2
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Well we're not sure yet if he's actually receiving any royalties.
Even if not, money to the studio means Humus still has a job, which means more money to his future wife.
I don't know how the contract was written. I don't think there's any special universal standard for publisher-developer contracts either. I think it's mostly on a case-to-case basis which can depend on many conditions, such as current market environment, what kind of title the publisher is going after, how many publishers are lining up to sign a deal with you or if you have to actively search for a publisher interested in your particular project etc.
aaronspink
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Depends on studio/publisher, but generally yes, they do. Games pay tends to follow the hollywood system of residuals as a means of keeping costs down.
aaronspink
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but it is the individual programmers and artists. Think of it as hollywood/books/etc where you get a chunk of money up front and then a variable amount depending on how well the product works. A lot easier to do variable bonus/residual pay than deal with the salary issues from the game selling 10 million copies.
aaronspink
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yeah, spec contracts, work for hire contracts, etc. Same as most other entertainment fields.
aaronspink
Veteran
You'd be surprised. If he had a speaking role, their is a reasonable chance he has some royalty stake. Its not uncommon for crew to also have small stakes though it depends on the production. Generally on indie/small budget productions they use variable in order to lower the upfront costs. Same in a lot of TV.
And just because someone is on royalties doesn't mean they would know the sales unless they asked. Normally people just get a check.
Here's the list of the ten bestselling titles on Steam for the week, as reported by Valve:
1 : Just Cause 2
Edit: Found This.
Just Cause 2 has also broke the 1 million barrier, but it fell slightly out of the companies fiscal year, only reaching 1.19 million as of the end of April.
1 : Just Cause 2
Edit: Found This.
Just Cause 2 has also broke the 1 million barrier, but it fell slightly out of the companies fiscal year, only reaching 1.19 million as of the end of April.
I just bought the game myself. It's a good time. I really like just about any open world style game. This one is so beautiful and expansive that it puts just about everything else to shame in that regard too.
I'm running it on my old 8800GTX primarily, on a plasma TV at 1360x768. It runs well enough with mostly max settings and 16X CSAA. Xtreme perty.
I'm running it on my old 8800GTX primarily, on a plasma TV at 1360x768. It runs well enough with mostly max settings and 16X CSAA. Xtreme perty.
This.
Yes, more income to the studio results in more money to employees, but more sales doesn't necessarily give the studio more money, so again, it depends on the contract.
At first I thought you mean "for the first week", not this week, but indeed I just checked myself and JC2 is on top.
http://store.steampowered.com/feeds/weeklytopsellers.xml
Could be a result of the sale of course. This might also explain the sudden boost in activity in the Steam Just Cause forum.
Edit: Found This.
Just Cause 2 has also broke the 1 million barrier, but it fell slightly out of the companies fiscal year, only reaching 1.19 million as of the end of April.
Yup, that's the most recent number I've seen. And here are the vgachartz numbers:
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=just+cause+2
These numbers are likely not comparable (end user sales vs. units shipped from the publisher to stores), but April-end the total console sales seems to have been about 0.9 million. So 0.29 million left for the PC, minus the differences in end-user/publisher sales. Where the PC might be now is hard to say after two Steam sales plus being included in that big Square Enix pack a while ago too.
Yeah, it's been mostly positive.
The project surely had its problems at times, and it took quite a bit longer to complete than originally planned. It's been a turbulent time for the studio as well. Shipping JC2 was a very big milestone, and the reviews and feedback has been a lot more positive than expected. The modding community that grew up quickly around the PC version of the game took us by surprise, but it was totally awesome. Did not see that coming.As for the studio, we're back to healthy conditions again. My sense is that people are feeling a lot more positive right now than before. We've learned a lot from the JC2 project and future stuff is coming along very well. We've been hiring and it's cool to see a bunch of the old Avalanchers return home again.
We're still fewer than we were at the peak though, but I think we're still looking for more people, at least there appear to still be some positions available.6 months of JC2 stats:
http://www.justcause.com/?page=articles/view&AID=48295
403,783 scorpions killed
http://www.justcause.com/?page=articles/view&AID=48295
403,783 scorpions killed
Silent_Buddha
Legend
Been playing this nonstop since my success in the TechReport screenshot competition
First time I've seen shadows that get fuzzier with distance from the occluder. "Contact hardening" I think they call it. Very nice.
I think the latest Stalker game also had that in Dx11 mode.
Regards,
SB
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