Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026at 160 people headcount (source:https://kotaku.com/blood-of-dawnwalker-became-a-darkhorse-goty-contender-on-just-a-40-million-budget-2000735632) that's enough profit to pay each person..... $30kUSD salary for one year. And then you're out of money. 31819
Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026this is all ballpark and I'm probably wrong on a lot of it but I think this is a great example of how even a viral hit results in the company who made the game not having enough money to make a second game. the whole system's rigged against it. 322711
Andy Jakcsy @ilgreven.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It really seems like this is the norm with every sort of consumed media. Anime studios have to have "hits" constantly because Crunchyroll or Aniplex gets most of the profits. TV and Movie studios get one shot unless they're attached to Disney, Paramount, Sony, or Universal, etc. 010
Matt Colville? @mattcolville.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I would say that's pretty good for a Fermi approximation. 000
Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026the calculus gets better and better the more you sell over that recoup, of course, and that's what everyone hopes for. They probably will do okay. But I doubt they'll have enough to fund their next game by themselves. This is with the "astonishingly cheap" budget everyone is talking about. 21582
