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Mildly surprised, didn't expect an actually decent article from this guy.‘Outriders’ Dev Doesn’t Know Sales, Hasn’t Been Paid Royalties By Square Enix
The long term future of Outriders may be in doubt as the reality on the ground may not be as rosy as Square Enix had indicated near launch.
Theories?
Is it common that developers haven't been paid this long after a games launch date?
It did 4x as many as Avengers? And Avengers failed to break even too right?..Sounds more like Square is having an issue selling some of these titles more than anything. Some of the other articles that have come out on this situation over the last 24 hours made it seem like they simply spent more making the game and marketing it than they've brought in so far, which is why they haven't hit whatever target they wanted to hit to pay out the royalties.
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That information is usually established in the contracts so we can only speculate. That said, it's not ridiculous if money is still held back at this point. Royalties are usually paid out on a quarterly basis, but creative accounting can sometimes delay that by an extra month, or sometimes even an extra quarter.‘Outriders’ Dev Doesn’t Know Sales, Hasn’t Been Paid Royalties By Square Enix
The long term future of Outriders may be in doubt as the reality on the ground may not be as rosy as Square Enix had indicated near launch.
Theories?
Is it common that developers haven't been paid this long after a games launch date?
That would be quite shitty thing to do, especially when MS paid them upfront, so they surely made a deal which worked for them.
Depends of the contract.
There were people thanking Phil on bringing this big AAA TP game to GP, game that brings levels of fun never seen since Crackdown3.
‘Outriders’ Dev Doesn’t Know Sales, Hasn’t Been Paid Royalties By Square Enix
The long term future of Outriders may be in doubt as the reality on the ground may not be as rosy as Square Enix had indicated near launch.
Theories?
Is it common that developers haven't been paid this long after a games launch date?
i had a blast with this game day 1 from start to finish on PC
yeah. They knew what they were doing. It's the easiest way to make sure the execs get the money up front while devs who rely on sales targets are left hanging.
Funny enough this is pretty much the exact situation happening with movies now, and is why Scarlett Johansson is suing Disney.
Tending to more important matters, of course
Overlooking sex abuse by industry friends.
Playing the demo turned me off to it, never wanted to play it again.
How do you know how Microsoft pays for games on GP? Is there some leaked documents or something?
Enough didnt buy it on PC and PS for it to be profitable putting it on Gamepass for Xbox only didnt doom this game.
How do you think they end up on there?
I wouldn't know, that's why I was asking the poster, I assumed he'd seen something.
It varies case by case:
Source (The Verge)
I'll let you know Jason knew first. He also knew about this (first obviously) and decided against writing a piece. It would have eaten into his time harassing people on Twitter about start up companies. These start ups have more power and control than the larger established companies.
Thank you so much, I was thinking it was more a case by case, thanks for confirming.
I think it's a well designed game with respect to the fact that you can tell a lot of time and care was put into it, and apparently it was a team of over 200 people. Personally I can't really play t though.
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