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So count it at 1672 euros a month, and count how long the project has been running and how much money they've raised so far. What does the minimum wage have to do with it? What are you talking about? Freelancers do a huge amount of custom work for little money. If you take the same developers from Russia, like Team Borsch,The average cost of similar art is 40€, 1 second of animation is 9€ (9€*30sec Animation = 270€), and the game code and background sprites cost 300€. Open-source sounds are free (no licenses), as is music. A small script to order for 150 euros, depending on the amount of work (you can write it yourself). And that on average, for one update with one scene, we spend about 760 euros if you order it from the same Developers and freelancers from Russia. And we still have 912€ for another scene 912€ - 760€ = 152€ for unreasonable expenses.
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Not in the field and don't really care but where are these numbers coming from ? 270 for 30 seconds? Who the f#@k gets 32,400 an hour?
Oh, you're that guy who watches porn for story and acting. I see. Porn is a low genre having a specific purpose, if you want to make gameplay you go indie. But most of these developers are artists not game designers and are not capable of anything more than grind and shitty mini-games.
Of course, if developers want to make gameplay in their porn games then ok. But if you spend half a year on the mechanics of a labyrinth that takes 10 minutes to complete and the reward is one sloppy scene then you are definitely doing something wrong. This was my point.
What can I say - I envy your amount of free time. I will also assume that most of the titles from the list are games in the first place, but with a porn/erotic element. Which is a completely different story.
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Patreon takes some and there are probably some taxes. And you seem to be assuming that nobody put any real work time in this. How much did the actual dev earn per hour etc.
And there are countries there "minimum wage" is 30€/month. That wasn't the point.
There are two of them and apparently they live together. So even if they get $1,500 from Patreon minus 6% tax on professional activities, then the total amount is the average salary in Russia for both of them. So, if they don't live in Moscow or St. Petersburg, they can work on WHT full-time. Which looks logical, because if they released more content, they would have reached $5-10k from Patreon a long time ago. And I doubt that in their main job they earn that kind of money.
Yep, cause Breadman didn't grow from $500 to $10k and didn't quit his job to work on DD full-time.
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I think you are misunderstanding something here. As I understood it the 270 Euros referred to the creation of a 30 second animation, not on something as absurd as a person being paid 270 for every 30 seconds worked.