The drop-off after launch is pretty wild.
What dropoff? The newest number is on top. (Though yeah, there will be a dropoff for sure, it's just not visible here).
There has been a discount.
Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
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Re: Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
#32That's post-Steam-fees and pre-taxes.
Irrespective of that - good for them, well-deserved IMO.
Re: Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
#33Good for them.
Re: Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
#34> The fairytale ending is reality, but you didn’t kiss the toad. Some philological pedantery: In the canonical Brothers Grimm version of The Frog Prince, the frog does not turn into a prince when kissed but when smashed against a wall.
Which is much more gruesome and makes a lot more sense. I expect more hesitancy in potentially killing the prince than kissing a frog.
Re: Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
#35Earlier this month:
Dwarf Fortress has sold half a million copies (bay12forums.com)
Re: Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
#36A little less than half goes to taxes. Is that normal?
Corporate tax and personal income tax?
Re: Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
#37It's funny how, if those tax dollars were spent properly (helathcare instead of missiles), the brothers wouldn't have needed to make the Steam version of the game.
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#38> The fairytale ending is reality, but you didn’t kiss the toad. Some philological pedantery: In the canonical Brothers Grimm version of The Frog Prince, the frog does not turn into a prince when kissed but when smashed against a wall.
Followed by: But, as he fell, he was changed from a frog into a handsome Prince with beautiful eyes, and after a little while he became, with her father’s consent, her dear companion and playmate. [1]
[1] https://www.pookpress.co.uk/the-frog-prince-story-a-tale-by-...
Re: Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
#39A little less than half goes to taxes. Is that normal?
Yes. There are ways they could have minimized that payment but it doesn’t seem that the team is primarily money motivated in the first place, so may as well just make the process simple and pay up.
What ways are you thinking of? They could have incorporated and posted losses for 2? straight years before the IRS started auditing; those losses could have been deducted against this revenue. What other angles are there?
Re: Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
#40Good for them. I'm so glad to see decades of hard work be rewarded.