Quote: "I don't see the point then really. You'd be better off going completely independent of a publisher. Seems to be the smarter move.
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yes, but you wont have the chance to get into pro-business AND earn that amount of sells, because self ditribution without much money to invest in forehand wont give you that much sells > you wont earn that much money simply because you cannot handle distribution on your own when it gets big.
when you get a good publisher, he can help to do something REALLY big and populize it (tv-advertisement, magazine-adds etc.), wich isnt possible without a company.
anderson was a special thing because of the worldwide lovecraft-fanbase who are not thrown to death with good cthulhu-stuff. most of it is too far away from the originals or crap. simply the googlesearch with "cthulhu game" had bring this game forward.
Quote: "Im sure many people can make millions,it just will cost more work. ... I am willing to put that amount of work in"
not possible for a private-developing single person because of time running through your fingers. when you are ready with a needed amount of your great work, you are 10 years behind standard and "zeitgeist".
i think this is only possible with a cheap but genious idea like minecraft OR to develop a real great more or less short demo and doing a professionell, very well made presentation for a studio/publisher to sell yourself with your project. thats the only way to get a proteam (those people want to be paid for the great work they do
) to do a needed amount of content in time.
but i will promise that when you where able to do this, you have to be a manager to fight against the publishers "earn-money-as-fast-as-possible-dont-think-about-giving-away-something-good-it-has-to-be-profitable-nothing-more" and wont do any development at all for the progame. ask ERTLOV about painkiller. (i think he had a need for painkillers while working for jo-wood)^^
times where publishers want to sell a GOOD game to earn respect and make themselves a name is business are long ago.
today its all about earning as much money as fast as possible, whatever will come after. modern capitalism, throw out good looking crap for full-prize and ignore protest because markets are big enough.^^
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