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Portals are the doomsday messengers!

September 23rd, 2006 Posted in indie life

LOL! well, I just read this post from cliffsky blog… and must admit that I agree with most he said in there. I’m sure he won’t put his games on any portals in future ;)

However, a thing nobody says is that when you’re selling directly, you must expect very little earnings until 1-2 years have passed and several games have been released by you. Seriously, even a good game, if is the only one you have, won’t make you more than 200$/month. Surely there can be exceptions… but is more like 1 out of 1000 than 1 out of 10 !

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