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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9110457" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I don't think Steam begs anyone to make more of specific games. They just take their 30% and smile broadly.</p><p></p><p>Chris Cocks on the other hand, is going to have been in a pretty tricky position, because he did indeed claim that, making it very interesting re: what percentage of gross WotC must be getting. The issue with the other movies you describe is that WotC didn't fund any of them (AFAIK) and Hollywood plays EXTREME hardball re: stuff like percentage of the gross for licensing. It's very likely WotC was only able to get a fixed-fee or a profit-sharing agreement with the Hollywood funders of those films.</p><p></p><p>And the vast majority of Hollywood films do not, on paper, turn a profit. So I'd be unsurprised if several of those films didn't even make WotC $1m. Possibly not anything at all in a couple of cases if they didn't get a fixed fee.</p><p></p><p>Also note he says "expects to". And I think it's reasonable to expect BG3 to do 1bn to 2bn in sales over the next year and the PS5 and Xbox releases.</p><p></p><p>He's probably got a far better deal from Larian than he ever could from Hollywood. If Larian, say, gave WotC 5% of gross on BG3 (so revenue not profit), and BG3 does 2bn, then Chris Cocks is looking at $100m in PURE PROFIT, which is absolutely bananas. I doubt the percentage is <em>much</em> higher, because videogames are expensive and risky to make, and WotC has never claimed to have funded Larian/BG3 in any way, but that by itself is kind of crazy money. If they have 10% gross (or more!), then jesus...</p><p></p><p>However, whatever the percentage is, Larian kind of now have the power. History relates that gamers follow the studio, not the system. You can see that with Bioware back in the day. People didn't stop buying Bioware games as they moved away from and then abandoned D&D. So I do think he'll be encouraging Larian to keep making BG stuff/D&D games, but probably not pushing for a higher percentage or the like, and Larian are likely to also want to keep having an "exit plan" form D&D in case WotC gets greedy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9110457, member: 18"] I don't think Steam begs anyone to make more of specific games. They just take their 30% and smile broadly. Chris Cocks on the other hand, is going to have been in a pretty tricky position, because he did indeed claim that, making it very interesting re: what percentage of gross WotC must be getting. The issue with the other movies you describe is that WotC didn't fund any of them (AFAIK) and Hollywood plays EXTREME hardball re: stuff like percentage of the gross for licensing. It's very likely WotC was only able to get a fixed-fee or a profit-sharing agreement with the Hollywood funders of those films. And the vast majority of Hollywood films do not, on paper, turn a profit. So I'd be unsurprised if several of those films didn't even make WotC $1m. Possibly not anything at all in a couple of cases if they didn't get a fixed fee. Also note he says "expects to". And I think it's reasonable to expect BG3 to do 1bn to 2bn in sales over the next year and the PS5 and Xbox releases. He's probably got a far better deal from Larian than he ever could from Hollywood. If Larian, say, gave WotC 5% of gross on BG3 (so revenue not profit), and BG3 does 2bn, then Chris Cocks is looking at $100m in PURE PROFIT, which is absolutely bananas. I doubt the percentage is [I]much[/I] higher, because videogames are expensive and risky to make, and WotC has never claimed to have funded Larian/BG3 in any way, but that by itself is kind of crazy money. If they have 10% gross (or more!), then jesus... However, whatever the percentage is, Larian kind of now have the power. History relates that gamers follow the studio, not the system. You can see that with Bioware back in the day. People didn't stop buying Bioware games as they moved away from and then abandoned D&D. So I do think he'll be encouraging Larian to keep making BG stuff/D&D games, but probably not pushing for a higher percentage or the like, and Larian are likely to also want to keep having an "exit plan" form D&D in case WotC gets greedy. [/QUOTE]
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