03-22-2024, 02:40 PM
What gets me is they will point to a company like KO_OP as a successful workers coop in gaming. But lets dig a little deeper and crunch their numbers:
10 people, according to crunchbase and a few articles. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ko-op
This many titles:
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So lets take the most recent one as that got their biggest push via Sony featuring it multiple times leading up to the PS5. How much did each employee make from the Steam release of a dinosaur dating sim:
Some steam info: https://steamdb.info/app/1310330/charts/
Steam player count indicates there are currently 5 players live playing Goodbye Volcano High on Steam.
Goodbye Volcano High had an all-time peak of 291 concurrent players on 29 August 2023.
#3285 in top sellers
1,139 positive reviews
118 negative reviews
Owner estimates:
~15.5 k by Gamalytic
~28.6 k by PlayTracker
~37.7 k by VG Insights
~58.0 k by SteamSpy
SteamSpy is trash but lets take their upper bound as a best case scenario
Launch price: $29.99 Lowest recorded sale price: $22.49
Let's assume a straight 50/50 split to be charitable, 29K for each price:
$869,710 full price sales; $652,210 discounted sales; total: $1,521,920
Ah, but Steam takes 30% of that. So really $1,065,344.
Dividing that evenly, before taxes, each member made: $106,534 off the Steam release for Goodbye Volcano High, a game that took how long to make? Oh... 3 years... so in actuality before taxes each member of this collective made $35,511.47 per year off this investment. And the Quebec income tax rate? $98,541 to $119,910 24.00% so that initial $106,534 drops down to $80,965 (assuming they aren't using a progressive tax like the US, maybe they are).
The workers coop idea totally makes sense guys
10 people, according to crunchbase and a few articles. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ko-op
This many titles:
So lets take the most recent one as that got their biggest push via Sony featuring it multiple times leading up to the PS5. How much did each employee make from the Steam release of a dinosaur dating sim:
Some steam info: https://steamdb.info/app/1310330/charts/
Steam player count indicates there are currently 5 players live playing Goodbye Volcano High on Steam.
Goodbye Volcano High had an all-time peak of 291 concurrent players on 29 August 2023.
#3285 in top sellers
1,139 positive reviews
118 negative reviews
Owner estimates:
~15.5 k by Gamalytic
~28.6 k by PlayTracker
~37.7 k by VG Insights
~58.0 k by SteamSpy
SteamSpy is trash but lets take their upper bound as a best case scenario
Launch price: $29.99 Lowest recorded sale price: $22.49
Let's assume a straight 50/50 split to be charitable, 29K for each price:
$869,710 full price sales; $652,210 discounted sales; total: $1,521,920
Ah, but Steam takes 30% of that. So really $1,065,344.
Dividing that evenly, before taxes, each member made: $106,534 off the Steam release for Goodbye Volcano High, a game that took how long to make? Oh... 3 years... so in actuality before taxes each member of this collective made $35,511.47 per year off this investment. And the Quebec income tax rate? $98,541 to $119,910 24.00% so that initial $106,534 drops down to $80,965 (assuming they aren't using a progressive tax like the US, maybe they are).
The workers coop idea totally makes sense guys
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