Everyone Wants a Slice of *Your* Pie
Everyone Wants a Slice of *Your* Pie
People who are willing to earn a living based on pure commission, earning a percentage of the revenue they generate, are hard to find.
People who are willing to earn a living based on a percentage of revenue that *you* generate, though, are legion.
Everyone wants a slice of your pie. The bigger you build the pie on your own, the more people who can see the pie and imagine ways of convincing you to *give* them a slice.
They’ll make up all sorts of reasons why it’s not just you being charitable. For example, they might insist that “marketing is hard”. It must be. Because you’ll notice they do damn little of it until/unless your game/product seems to do well on its own.
Or that they are “giving you access to their market.” Nice of them to add you to their Web page, neh? Because making Web pages to list things is, like marketing, “hard”.
Or that “if you want to reach the widest possible audience, you need to let us take the larger percentage of revenue.” You’re just a producer, after all. Where would *you* be without *them*?
If you like giving away your pie, go for it.
My advice, though, is make sure that any and all “great ideas for making you more money” really are about making *you* more money. And not just another grab for a free piece of pie.
-David
Wow. A bite out of the traditional distribution game huh? I played that game, with manga not video games, but it never changes.