Quote: "BTW, why do you need a publisher?"
I have to agree with that, most, will not give you dev money up front, its like getting blood out of a stone, for fpsc games that doesn't apply, for other games it does, you can build up massive costs, fpsc makes things much easier though so you can afford to make your own game and fund it yourself if you are just releasing on the PC,so why give them great big percentages, If they are not paying the dev costs, then why the hell should they be taking massive cuts out of the royalty, I personally don't believe that tosh about marketing costs, hell a few adverts in some magazines that nobody looks at anyway don't cost millions like they try to make out, what the hell do they actually do for the cut they take out of the money.
Like I say, I welcome what PAS is trying to do by working out how one gets into the business, like I have stated before, the sooner we get rid of publishers the better, distribute the games online and market the games yourself and keep all of the money for the developer, hell its your game, you deserve all the money.
