How much would a game designer earn working for another company? Here's some annual salaries from Glassdoor:
- Roblox: $185,181
- Microsoft: $173,843
- AppLovin: $131,603
- Electronic Arts: $122,829
- Unity: $114,687
Right now, if you're doing well in the AVN field, you can really make a lot of money. DC (Summertime Saga) is earning between 71k and 197K
a month. DPC (BaDIK) is earning between 33K - 91K a month. Magicnuts is earning about 7.5K a month (and it peaks closer to 10K on each release). I think if you're doing well in this field, you'd be mad to throw it in and hope to do better in the mainstream.
I totally get how a lot of people don't really want personal recognition making a porn game, but none of these developers are putting their face out there anyway, and the in-laws don't give a fuck where your money is coming from as long as you're providing.
Not sure how doing AVNs as a hobby gives a higher chance of them sticking at it for another 5+ years. If it's a hobby, they can chuck it in and move on in their lives without any notice or repercussions, whereas someone making serious money out of it full time has a huge incentive to keep going.
If you crunch the number on the percentage complete:
- It's been 670 days since the last release.
- There's only 0.2% left to go.
- So that means we've got roughly 1.5 days to go before release.
WooHoo!
...No?