Quote Originally Posted by Shirai View Post
Let me stop you right there.
Paying people $10 an hour does not mean it costs S-E $10 per hour to hire people.
Perhaps you should ask your employer sometimes what you are actually costing him besides your own sallary.
well we all know this . And not factoring in things like insurance , 401k / stock options bonuses still it is feasible to do. And 10$ per is a base make it 20$ and double the total at the end at 2,304,000 month just pay lets add in 3mil to cover insurance and things so were looking at 5,304,000 per month or 63,648,000 subtract the same base yearly income total ( just for this game ) of 125,910,000 - 63,648,000 still at 62,262,000 just for this game alone . take out another 30% for the Dev team and Yoshi SE banks close to 20mil again not even factoring in things like first time yearly sales of the game 30~60$ depending on version of the game you bought . and sales over time . Say this year 250,000 of 750,00 sales are V1 players who got the game for free . So 500k people who bought the game on ps3 witch was 40$ ( we will use the PS3 low end for the example ) total on JUST sales is 20mil per this year . Then after a good solid year you can roll down the cost by downsizing the operation and save money its really not that hard