Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:16 am
True - working some optimistic numbers:
Say they sold 225,000 or Arcanum, 125,000 of ToEE, and 100,000 of Bloodlines all at $50 a copy. They would have a gross sales figure of $22,500,000. Assuming 30% goes straight to corporate taxes, you then have $15,750,000 left. Taking the assumtion that Troika gets 40% of that, they now have $6,300,000. But that is over 6 years, or $1,050,000 a year. Of that, there is significant overhead - office space, health care, computers and software, travel, expenses, etc - which is likely to exceed 40% of what they have, but we'll leave it there ... so now you have $630,000 a year for salaries. Assuming they float an average of 20 people, that is an annual salary of $31,500. Which is cr@p.
Mike
Say they sold 225,000 or Arcanum, 125,000 of ToEE, and 100,000 of Bloodlines all at $50 a copy. They would have a gross sales figure of $22,500,000. Assuming 30% goes straight to corporate taxes, you then have $15,750,000 left. Taking the assumtion that Troika gets 40% of that, they now have $6,300,000. But that is over 6 years, or $1,050,000 a year. Of that, there is significant overhead - office space, health care, computers and software, travel, expenses, etc - which is likely to exceed 40% of what they have, but we'll leave it there ... so now you have $630,000 a year for salaries. Assuming they float an average of 20 people, that is an annual salary of $31,500. Which is cr@p.
Mike