HentaiWriter
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Re: Kyrieru's new game!
Also, they're not acting as just a file host; they're actively promoting the game across thousands of websites, websites that I'm fairly sure everyone on this site has visited or does currently visit on a decent basis. DLSite doesn't promote anything on its site on any other sites, AFAIK.
This site is also heavily affiliated with the Japanese market, including large sites over there too, but their main audience is the English market, just like DLSite's is the Japanese market.
Finally, sorry to break it to you, but in the entertainment industry, 80% isn't highway robbery or even close to it if you're getting paid a boatload of money up front; hell, that's YOU robbing THEM, if anything. A lot of large titles in the industry outright get lower rates without money up front, believe it or not.
If you work in the entertainment industry, you'd know that the deal they're offering here;
-Non-exclusive
-Set where your game is sold and for what price
-Get your game advertised to 300,000,000+ possible people daily
-Get paid thousands of dollars up front and they still pay you 20% of profits (btw, most companies doing this will give you NONE of the sales profits)
-Get paid nothing up front and get 60% of profits (about as good as DLSite, but with nonstop advertising pushing your stuff, a service that would normally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars)
is absolutely insane, and I'd be a fool not to take it, lol.
As for your answer regarding contracts, no, I don't have any on hand, as I haven't signed anything. That said, obviously I would look it over and make sure these things that were already promised to me (and have been promised to anyone else they're working with) would be honored in the contract.
They don't, pretty much. Like myself, they've outright said they won't work with any games featuring either content.
I should note, this is if they're paying you literally thousands of dollars, up front, to hire extra people. DLSite doesn't do this. If they don't pay you up front, they pay you 60% of profits AND still advertise the hell out of your game, making that a clear advantage over DLSite.
Also, they're not acting as just a file host; they're actively promoting the game across thousands of websites, websites that I'm fairly sure everyone on this site has visited or does currently visit on a decent basis. DLSite doesn't promote anything on its site on any other sites, AFAIK.
This site is also heavily affiliated with the Japanese market, including large sites over there too, but their main audience is the English market, just like DLSite's is the Japanese market.
Finally, sorry to break it to you, but in the entertainment industry, 80% isn't highway robbery or even close to it if you're getting paid a boatload of money up front; hell, that's YOU robbing THEM, if anything. A lot of large titles in the industry outright get lower rates without money up front, believe it or not.
We haven't even made a formed deal yet, nor have they paid me anything. I'm going solely off of my own research of the company as well as the connections and marketing they have to bring to the table.
Actually, no, they do have an obligation, because that's what a contract is, haha. And even if they do do that, that means that we, as the developers, make more sales, which means we still make more profits. (This is why DLSite, despite taking as much of the profits as it does, will ALWAYS be the biggest amount of sales for any hentai game simply because of the sheer mass of sales it brings.)
False again; the site has network connections and so forth with extremely large adult websites, but all sales are solely from their homesite and nowhere else. Again, this is a contractual thing; you, as the developer, designate and know where your game will be sold and for what price. They can't legally sell your game on other sites without your permission, contractually.
I'm not going to continue to talk about it in this particular thread, as Kyrieru has made it clear he doesn't want to work with others (which I fully sympathize on, I'm a stickler for who I work with also), but I'm absolutely going to continue to work with a fully legitimate, not shady in any way, fully contractually bound company that many of you on this site visit and use every day and seem to have no complaints over it.
If you work in the entertainment industry, you'd know that the deal they're offering here;
-Non-exclusive
-Set where your game is sold and for what price
-Get your game advertised to 300,000,000+ possible people daily
-Get paid thousands of dollars up front and they still pay you 20% of profits (btw, most companies doing this will give you NONE of the sales profits)
-Get paid nothing up front and get 60% of profits (about as good as DLSite, but with nonstop advertising pushing your stuff, a service that would normally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars)
is absolutely insane, and I'd be a fool not to take it, lol.
As for your answer regarding contracts, no, I don't have any on hand, as I haven't signed anything. That said, obviously I would look it over and make sure these things that were already promised to me (and have been promised to anyone else they're working with) would be honored in the contract.
sorry!
