QuoteIf your game makes $1,000,000, then we make $50,000. We realize that's a lot to ask, and that it would be a crazy proposition unless UE4 enables you to build way better games way more productively than otherwise!
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Very, very interesting. Dont have a positive or negative thing to say. I just find this an interesting way to go. 5% sounds like less than I pay for a lot of things. And I have at least read it is a lot less than what you loose taking an independent film to a distributor.
Really, 5% (if that is your total out of pocket for an entire project after creation costs) is not that much. Then again if your making a game for IOS, then Apple will get a cut on the distribution too, and that is the cheapest sales pipeline I can think of.
Feels like it should be lower percent on the low end and the high end though. So if you only make a sales total of $30,000 than maybe they should only take 2%. And if your total sales are $14million (after a 3million + risk, or more investment), than they get like 1-2%. Because at a certain point a flat 5% could destroy a venture.
I suspect suport would be better for the guys making 13 million and paying 5 %.
