What their own expenses are in the real word are of no consequence to me what so ever and it has no bearing on the cost of making a game, what in the fuck is wrong with people in here? The cost of making a game is the cost making a game, not oh the developer needed 10 brain surgery operations during the 30 year development of a game that should have take 2 years so we can all pay 10 times the price for it
If you seriously think that living costs are part of the calculations when it comes to paying for a game to be developed you're fucking mad, developers get paid what they get paid as developers regardless of if they are the ones developing it or if they are being paid by a publisher to make it and what they do with that money is their business, nothing to do with anyone or anything else
The only thing that counts is the cost of making the game, top end side scrollers only cost in the 10s of thousands to make not 100s of thousands, so the number whether it is 3 or 30 people is completely irrelevant, quit talking shit
"Delete your account, step outside, and touch some fucking grass." yeah go on then bootlicker
Making a game requires people to work on it. Working on the game requires those people to spend time. Time is a finite resource. Time spent working on the game means either less time or no time to earn a living another way. So like all jobs, people making the game need money to pay for food, rent, electricity, internet, etc etc. Without these things they couldn't work on the game.
So yes, cost of living is a cost of making the game. Where do you think a lot of the money for the game goes in a AAA studio? It goes to paying developers' wages. That's not some side-cost, that's the
main cost of developing a game.
An indie team also needs the equivalent of wages. They're not unemployed. They're self-employed. The Patreon money is the crowdfunded capital that allows them to:
1. Pay for assets.
2. Spend time working on the game instead of working another job.
This is normal and is the entire purpose of Patreon, and everyone who is an adult who funds people on Patreon understands a significant chunk of the money is going to the creator's living expenses, so that they can spend time on the stuff they are creating.
Can't believe I have to explain the concept of work and living expenses, but maybe some here are lying about being 18+ and think everyone can make games while living in mom and dad's house and eating all their food.
