Comments on: YoYo Games Ltd records losses of £180,000

By: YoYo Games Ltd almost break even in year to October 2009 » GameMaker Blog

YoYo Games Ltd almost break even in year to October 2009 » GameMaker Blog — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:00:08 +0000

[...] accounts, filed Friday, show that YoYo Games Ltd almost broke even after a loss of £180,000 in the previous year to October 31st [...]

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 12:24:35 +0000

[...] The last figures we had previous to this were “upwards of 10TB a month” in June last year. See also YoYo Games record annual loss of £180,000. [...]

By: Cracking up about Game Maker Cracks » GameMaker Blog

Cracking up about Game Maker Cracks » GameMaker Blog — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:19:48 +0000

[...] Firstly I believe it will be obvious to the majority of readers that those figures are a blatant massive underestimation of the number of illegal copies of Game Maker Pro. Secondly this number is based on the bizarre assumption that everyone who downloaded a cracked version would otherwise have paid to upgrade. I would like to know how they arrived at $25.06 in lost revenue for every download – given that for most of this period Game Maker was sold for $20 (a figure above $25 would otherwise be more reasonable given the higher USD values of the Eurozone and British pricing). It is pretty obvious that YoYo Games wouldn’t want to throw out commercially sensitive information for the whole world to see and we know Sandy isn’t lying about YoYo’s profitability because we have seen their abbreviated accounts. [...]

By: Sandy

Sandy — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:29:15 +0000

Just noticed this thread..you guys get everywhere.

By: YoYo Games undergoing new round of funding » GameMaker Blog

YoYo Games undergoing new round of funding » GameMaker Blog — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:56:38 +0000

[...] recently posted documents which showed that in the two years to 31st October 2008 YoYo Games lost more than £420,000 (~$680,000 USD). Speaking on this weekend’s GMLive host Joshua Pedroza said that although [...]

By: Philip Gamble

Philip Gamble — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:02:12 +0000

YouTube has Google who are making upwards of $4bn a year in profit to support it. YoYo Games does not.

By: hidden object games online

hidden object games online — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:53:22 +0000

Youtube will get more than what it paid for sooner or later when they decide to make profit out of it =)

By: Derme

Derme — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 06:44:30 +0000

Its not that bad, YouTube still hasn’t made a profit for Google yet.

By: Q

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:58:06 +0000

If they had a game shop, who’s games would they sell? There would have to be some say 50/50 agreement which is just work, problems, and trouble.
Besides, even though some Game Maker games can be quite impressive the really aren’t worth paying money for.

and, heh, YoYo doesn’t even know anything about web design [that is to say] ad placement. It makes them look bad, like one of those sites who don’t really want you to visit their site, just click their ads.

By: RobF

RobF — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:27:56 +0000

The problem with the game store concept is that most of those with the ability to make a game good enough to sell can be better furnished by building their own sites and getting direct sales rather than farming it over to YYG, so the problems will still persist. At best, they’d then be placing themselves as a portal and in direct competition with other better established portals.

The best thing they really could do is to spend less time worrying about YYG and more time and money spent on GM development. That’s the golden egg in this story and its almost neglect for a couple of years is mental.