Firvulag
2007-11-06 |  | GC price? |  |
was just reading the below thread and that got me thinking:
How much is GC worth?
Would stephan consider selling it?
and for wat price would he sell it.. |
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Travvivian
99+ day(s) ago | The only way you could go about a purchase, whilst keeping a sane amount of currency to be involved. Would be to get the actual figures. Cost of upkeep, revenue received. Profit/loss margins, etc. Then, you would have to receive an actual asking price from Stephen. And work towards a deal, keeping in mind the factors already mentioned.
To be honest, if the game, after upkeep costs, nets $10k a year. And the current owner is asking for $500k. It would simply be a bad decision to to take on the lump of $hit. You would never make up your investment. Nor would you ever pull even.
Just clone the Game, if you want to do things economically. |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | Yea, considering that whoever forks it over would then have to find some way of getting a return on that investment, which isn`t easy in a few years time even if the game flourished again. Better games would sell for less. |
armenia4ever
99+ day(s) ago | I heard he wanted 25 mil $ for both. Theres no way any sane person would pay that though. |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | That`s a lower figure of course and depends on book value + current net income of the game. If this game nets $50,000 a year, then it isn`t unreasonable to believe that fair value would be $1 million at most. |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | Well, if you assume that 2000 1-year paids were bought per year, that`s $52,000 a year.
I wonder what it costs the game to run, staff and equipment upkeep.
I`d prolly value the game around $600,000 or so considering the income rate and so forth. Not a bad amount to retire with really once you`re done running the game. |
theunforgiven
99+ day(s) ago | GC is awesome but stephen is a retard and he only does stuff with UC(which isn`t much but more than here)
UC though is probably 10X more expensive... so many people donate to get special projects and stuff their.....they should try something like that with GC... i think it would be a big hit |
empire105
99+ day(s) ago | the networth of GC can`t be very high since there are only like 300 active players and like little below 50% of them are paid. plus the server would be a plie of junk so in total I don`t think it costs a lot around the tens of thousands |
Maraudian
99+ day(s) ago | * thinks razgriz underestimates gc... |
Razgriz
99+ day(s) ago | alot of money? are you kidding, say 500 people at 7 dollars a month, that is 3500 a month, not taking into account any cost for the site and equipment. However as many of you know 500 paids a month is a little generous |
lothor
99+ day(s) ago | according to stephen he wouldn`t sell the game unless someone offered a redictulous amount of money. he doesn`t want to sell the game. he wanted to make a game so people could have fun and according to him "not something to make alot of money off of" |
theunforgiven
99+ day(s) ago | who told u that ragnorak?....he makes a lot of money off this game ... |
Ragnarok
99+ day(s) ago | actually the game might sell under $500k. |
VALJA
99+ day(s) ago | 10 dollars... anyone else? going once... going twice...
yes... gentleman/alien over there... 10.99 dollars?
...oh boy... it`s going to be years to hit 1 mill mark... lol... |
Augustini
99+ day(s) ago | Let me start the bidding by opening with 10 dollars :-) |
VALJA
99+ day(s) ago | IF the price can make him a millionaire for years... he probably consider it... don`t you think so? :P
(sorry Stephen... incase you`re not that type... lol... ) |
