Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)Microsoft Cuts Indie Royalties in Half Kotaku - February 22, 2008
Submitted by ItachiItachi (463)
at 9:38AM PST on February 22, 2008
News of Microsoft's democratization of indie game development was overshadowed this week by an increasing discontent among established indie developers that the company was halving the royalties paid to them for future projects, several well-informed sources told Kotaku.
Several developers directly affected by the cut told Kotaku that the once generous royalty share of 70 percent given to them by the company was within the past few months cut down to 35 percent.
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Royalty percentages aren't exactly the most public thing, but it is possible that a developer working on one of the other platforms could leak the information (or that the info could be estimated through another method).