On: On Let's Plays – That Dragon, Cancer

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It looks to me that they made a huge investment into a game that wouldn't necessarily pay them back.

Profits on games aren't always that great, especially for indie titles.

It's not that they're losing sales, it's that they don't have many sales. And you need to pay 8 people somehow.

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It is a little disconcerting that a game with such wide and generally positive coverage would not be able to make any money.

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It wasn't published by a massive publisher. It didn't get "hype". And it had a massive production budget.

Realize that most game programmers at AAA studios are far underpaid and overworked.