I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

[Perversion]

That's over $140,000 for the developer. Where is the justice??

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

Don't they have to give MS a cut?

[Goufunaki]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

M$ takes its share just like every other console maker does. This isn't shocking. Plus the game itself wasn't even expensive, it's a dollar I think.

The justice is that people can get their games out to the public easily, no matter the quality, and make some money. If I had made a simple game where all you did was shoot zombies while an annoying song of me played, I would be more than happy to make $140k. That's so much more than most normal people make in a year.

[d2king10]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

And yet here I am trying to promote my game ( www.wanderlustgame.com ), while trash like this gets popular. It is a shame.

[Karr Lord of Chaos]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

its become a cult following plus the price so this is why its so popular. i played it and found it fun but a one time play (played it at a friends so i didnt have to spend a buck).

its just one of those things thats soo bad its good.

[Perversion]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

And yet here I am trying to promote my game ( www.wanderlustgame.com ), while trash like this gets popular. It is a shame.

Yeah...that was kinda my point.


And M$ DOES take their cut, which is a very reasonable 30%. Dev gets 70%. 200,00 times 70%=140,000+.


My point is, yeah, this was only a dollar. And I've not played it (the title alone almost made me retch), but it seems to have been slapped together with a fairly small amount of effort expended.



Yes, I LOVE that the XNA Creator's Club is giving people a chance to get their games out there, and make a substantial profit in doing so, but I guess like everything else, the herd mentality sets it. A game with a "leet" title and that only costs a dollar for like 10 minutes of gameplay is gonna sell like hotcakes, while something that costs, say, 240 M$ points ($3) and is labored over and crafted for the pure enjoyment of doing so and is actually GOOD stiffs in that marketplace.


As I said, though, that's nothing new. It's just disheartening.

[Goufunaki]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

Ah, my bad. I was thinking the topic was about M$ taking so much money.

[Valkysas]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

I found the game enjoyable. didnt buy it though.

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

And yet here I am trying to promote my game ( www.wanderlustgame.com ), while trash like this gets popular. It is a shame.

Get it on XNA and become a billionaire.

[Duel]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

I played it because it had zombies.

[Karim]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

The game isn't half as bad as you seem to think it is. Yes, it is a stupid little 10 minute diversion, but it's fun. It's flashy and hectic, and for a dollar I don't think people expect much more than that.

The main reason why it did so well though is fairly simple and has nothing to do with people being sheep.
Very few people buy the 3-5 dollar games because the average consumer doesn't intentionally buy XNA games.
People buy this stuff only because they have 100 or so MS points left in their account, and there is literally nothing else they can do with it, thanks to how Microsoft makes you buy set amounts of points. That is the only reason.

[Kire]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

I bought it. It was hilarious and enjoyable.

[DarkwingChuck]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

And M$ DOES take their cut, which is a very reasonable 30%. Dev gets 70%. 200,00 times 70%=140,000+.

Ah, my bad. I was thinking the topic was about M$ taking so much money.

My bad, I didn't know the price or anything so I figured the $140,000 was gross sales. I was just saying they didn't get that much if they had to pay M$ a fee for being on XNA (couldn't quite remember if they did or not). But that was already accounted for so ignore me. -_~

Get it on XNA and become a billionaire.

Get it on iTunes and become a billionaire faster. Better yet, get it on everything like Bejewled, Peggle, Puzzle Quest, Plants vs Zombies, etc.

[Garr123]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

Looking at the youtube video for this game, it looks like a really ****ty version of Crimsonland. Confirm/deny?

Crimsonland ****ing ruled, though.

[Kire]

Re: I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!! (XNA) has 200,000 downloads

did crimsonland have a song about crimsonland in the background and about how it's only a dollar, and sync the ground to change textures to go along with the song as well?