What's the revenues of this game? I think around 150000$ a year. They can have two full time programmers and a customer relations on the payroll and make 20-30k profits. Sounds possible?

How much you paying those developers?? I wouldn't work there for under 70k.

Two junior software engineers and dominos pizza for lunch every day.

That fired software engineer from Google should come pretty cheap.

FOX wants to run a business that makes 20-30k a year? Funny.

Posted by zorzii on 8/14/2017 8:03:00 PM (view original):
What's the revenues of this game? I think around 150000$ a year. They can have two full time programmers and a customer relations on the payroll and make 20-30k profits. Sounds possible?

You obviously don't know business.

1)Collect underpants
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3) PROFIT!

Posted by MikeT23 on 8/15/2017 5:50:00 AM (view original):
FOX wants to run a business that makes 20-30k a year? Funny.

I am just wondering. Pretty sure it does not have anybody assigned to the game, if they did, the game would not be profitable

I've said time and time again that HD is not a cash cow. 3,000 users paying $10(estimate) every 7 weeks. $30,000 x 7 = $210,000 a year. Maybe more, maybe less but 200k a year is a drop in the bucket for FOX. There's no reason for a full-time employee dedicated to HD.

Posted by MikeT23 on 8/15/2017 8:06:00 AM (view original):
I've said time and time again that HD is not a cash cow. 3,000 users paying $10(estimate) every 7 weeks. $30,000 x 7 = $210,000 a year. Maybe more, maybe less but 200k a year is a drop in the bucket for FOX. There's no reason for a full-time employee dedicated to HD.

To be honest, if these revenues are right, it makes for a good small business. You would develop a lot faster that way.

It is a good small business. I'm pretty sure most of us, if we were developers, would put a lot of time into it. 200k a year is good change anywhere in the US. But FOX isn't a small business and HD is not owned by a developer.

Posted by MikeT23 on 8/15/2017 8:33:00 AM (view original):
It is a good small business. I'm pretty sure most of us, if we were developers, would put a lot of time into it. 200k a year is good change anywhere in the US. But FOX isn't a small business and HD is not owned by a developer.

Yep. Maybe FOX should sell 3.0 and 2.0. I would buy it if I would see the revenues you are talking about. A small office, two employees and It would grow.

always wonder why Fox bought the business

I'm not sure HD requires 3 employees. I'd probably contract a programmer, have him do what I think needs to be done. There just aren't that many things that need to be done. I certainly wouldn't update a dynasty game constantly. But, when I had something else I wanted to do, I'd bring a programmer back on. Sort of on retainer. Side work.

Posted by mamxet on 8/15/2017 9:02:00 AM (view original):
always wonder why Fox bought the business

Customer base for it's fantasy games, website.

Posted by MikeT23 on 8/15/2017 9:03:00 AM (view original):
I'm not sure HD requires 3 employees. I'd probably contract a programmer, have him do what I think needs to be done. There just aren't that many things that need to be done. I certainly wouldn't update a dynasty game constantly. But, when I had something else I wanted to do, I'd bring a programmer back on. Sort of on retainer. Side work.

totally agree - you have a support person - who supports a bunch of other games - maybe even other Fox games outside WIS

you hope to find a programmer who will do stints on various WIS games when needed - but for sure you dont hire a programmer for one game