Comments on: Unsurprisingly YoYo Games are yet to make a profit

By: Hye Reynaldo

Hye Reynaldo — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:27:51 +0000

Great post! GA can be my greatest earning. On the other hand, it’s not a a lot.

By: AAKN

AAKN — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:33:48 +0000

the picture is far from the observation domain, that why this topic is shown , in every company base building take these actions and events , these guys thinks for the future more than the present , to briefly clarify my point, just compare the community’s growth between the gamemaker 5 to gamemaker 8 versions

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Who is making money from Game Maker? » GameMaker Blog — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:21:32 +0000

[...] know YoYo Games are not making money from Game Maker and a recent look at GMB’s finances got me pondering just “who is [...]

By: YoYo Games use 12TB of Bandwidth a Month » GameMaker Blog

YoYo Games use 12TB of Bandwidth a Month » GameMaker Blog — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:21:16 +0000

[...] last figures we had previous to this were “upwards of 10TB a month” in June last year. See also YoYo [...]

By: WillHostForFood starved » GameMaker Blog

WillHostForFood starved » GameMaker Blog — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:43:08 +0000

[...] “$150″ a month. By comparison the latest figures we have for YoYoGames.com are “upwards of 10TB a month“. The site was put up for sale a week ago with an asking price of $1000 but no buyers came [...]

By: YoYo Games Ltd records losses of £180,000 » GameMaker Blog

YoYo Games Ltd records losses of £180,000 » GameMaker Blog — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 12:47:46 +0000

[...] figures, listed at Companies House, put numbers to a comment made by Sandy about YoYo’s profitability (or current lack of it) five months back. YoYo Games Ltd Abbreviated Accounts for year ending 31st [...]

By: Seamus

Seamus — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 07:05:23 +0000

Wow, i cant believe some of the posts here, @ mathewh and derme, have you ever even made a game? or started a website? is money the only thing that matters to you? the ENTIRE indie gaming genre is no profit, (most of it anyways) people are spending long hours and hard work like you said, to express their creativity and have their creation be praised by others, not to pocket some money. first comes expression, money is a side effect. if everyone wanted money for their games there would be exactly 0 games on yoyogames right now.

By: Broxter

Broxter — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:23:12 +0000

Mattthew_H Think. You have a company, where you make games. You put hard and long hours into these games, and so does all of your employees – Although, you don’t make a profit after you’ve released the game. You get downloads, but no return.Would you want to do it again, and put more money into it, more hard work & more long hours into it?Would you do it again?

Return (I'm assuming you mean revenue) is not the same as profit. Just because the company makes no profit, it doesn't mean you don't get paid for making a game. And I never said a company could survive with no revenue.

By: Philip Gamble

Philip Gamble — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:05:22 +0000
@Caniac First one is from Sandy's xBox days so not exactly recent. Second is from a CNN Money article so I wouldn't want to use that.

By: Caniac

Caniac — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:59:36 +0000

Josh, yes it is a great site

Phil, yeah, there is a shortage
here are some pictures I did find hanging around though:
http://dailygamesnews.com/2008/03/consoles-will-disappear-in-5-10-years.html
http://www.diggreader.ru/2007/07/28/tridtsat-odin-samyiy-%C2%ABgoryachiy%C2%BB-startap-za-predelami-ssha/
(I can’t read Russian like the last site is, but it said “CEO: Sandy Duncan” (and then went on in Russian) so I guess thats good enough for me :p