Uh, what? (Gaming)

by Cody Miller , Music of the Spheres - Never Forgot, Thursday, April 07, 2016, 01:45 (3156 days ago) @ uberfoop

Presumably, the asking price for a kickstarter game is what is required to pay the salaries of those working on the game. Why does my game have to turn a profit if everybody gets paid their salary by the backers?

If the asking price is what's required to pay the salaries, you'd turn a profit if you sold even a single copy.

But even that kind of sucks in the event of a market failure, because there's no post-development cushion; you can't support the game and everyone suddenly has no income and needs to find another job.

You either do another kickstarter, or you get financiers :-) If your game was good neither should be hard!