Here is some info about the creator of Fez reacting to the fee.
You're asking me to choose between the unverified claims made by a single jilted developer who openly admits that the first two times that he used the process it was free, or the publically posted price charts from the vendor he's talking about, which I've purchased from, in combination with claiming that something is $10k, when your source says $40k, and participation in the platform is less than $3k
My inclination is to believe that you are believing a niche developer who's lying to make himself feel better
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If I remember correctly he also comments about it in Indie Game: The Movie.
Microsoft has been in the platform gaming business for sixteen years. Sony charges $150 for the thing you believe this guy says Microsoft charges $40,000 for. Nintendo charges $200.
Many game developers hate Microsoft. If this was true, we'd have heard about it from more than this person and Tin Schafer so far.
It's particularly interesting that you aren't noticing that your own source got this for free twice, and wasn't charged anything until he badly abused the system and his customers, and you still think this costs everyone money all the time.
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I'm not criticizing a video. Where did you get this idea?
The post you responded to had a link with a video on it
Kay. I said literally nothing about the video.
Please spend less time incorrectly reading between the lines. I bore easily.
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the video you're criticizing
I'm not criticizing a video. Where did you get this idea?
Whether you saw the video or just read the page doesn't really matter.
Okay then. I'm starting to feel like you're arguing with what you want to see, rather than what I actually said.
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If I'm raising money and I need $10,000 for something, but the site I'm using to raise money takes 5%, then I actually need closer to $10,500
That's nice.
You might as well suggest that the price of the car includes the clothes you have to wear to get the job that pays for the car.
Your mystery logic isn't interesting. The price of the images has nothing to do with the various things you chose to do to get the money.
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"Adding a new character will have no impact on the software. It's just pictures and hitboxes"
So any novel abilities the new character has won't need to be programmed?
Not by the artists, no. We're talking about art costs.
Look, I get that you don't do software, but that probably also means you shouldn't argue about software.
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All menus and selection screens will update themselves automatically?
No menus or selection screens are impacted in any fighting game I've ever seen by adding art for fighters.
You seem to be arguing for the sake of arguing, without thinking about any of what you're saying.
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And those additions won't need to be bug tested or tweaked?
No, art by artists does not generally need to be bug tested.
I've literally never seen or heard of a bug coming from art.
I'm not interested in the mental backflips you're going to do to pretend this made sense.
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Holy shit, I love watching someone say that the price to draw the art for a single fighting game character is $150,000. Did you know you can look up video game artist salaries on salary.com, and that you're discussing three years of an average game artist's salary?
Nobody said that.
Here's a literal quotation, one among many
"$150,000 for a single character in a fighting game sounds like a lot of money, but it’s actually significantly lower than most fighting games, and even previous Skullgirls characters"
I look forward to hearing about how what I said to not you should be modified by what you thought nobody was talking about, even though you brought Skullgirls up in your own post.
Oh, wait, no. That's not what looking forward to means.
I actually meant to say "I dread what you're going to try to get me to care about next."
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It sounds like you have a lot of experience making bad games. Why that should be relevant
Oh, probably because unlike you, my shit actually got into Walmart and made money
Be sure to make fun of the AAA games I was involved in, like Lord of the Rings and Spongebob.
Don't mention what you were part of while questioning the relevance of my real world successful experience, though.
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Your overall hostility is also unwarranted.
While we're talking about warrant, let's talk about you challenging a professional's experience because you imagine Lord of the Rings games are low quality, after releasing Jungle Moose