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krub
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My game is about to finish soon.
Screen shots are here:
http://hotfile.com/dl/122309611/42936b0/NestIntruder.rar.html
My question is after %30 apple's cut. Will there be taxation for developer?
how much developer can get for each 1000 download if price is 0.99.
And I send game Chillingo for evaluation, They are almost accepted the game bus is it logical to go with them?
Please some experienced people reply me.
Cheers.
-Ozgur
indy2005
Member
I would rather have 10% of a million pounds than 100% of $1000...not speaking from experience but if you can get to go with a publisher I would, unless you are wizz at marketing. Not sure about tax, but certainly it would form part of your income and so will be taxable in that respect...at least in the UK it would.
letmeknow
Member
@indy2005: you are wrong. Publisher can help boost a game, but no-one (or no way) can help a $1000-worth app become $1,000,000-worth app.
if a game worth $1 mil under a famous publisher, it would worth about 1/2 - 1/5 without a publisher. The only exception when someone is extremely unlucky.
indy2005
Member
i'm a programmer (and not a very good one) , not a marketer....for me I would choose a publisher, if lucky enough to be accepted.
Not to turn my sh*t game into a mountain of gold through the power of alchemy and black magic....but because I have no interest in marketing/business...and thats what I would choose to do..
Personal taste!
Back to the OP's actual questions that were overlooked.
Taxes are your responsibility, not Apple's. You will need to find out in your country/location what your tax responsibilities are.
For each $0.99 USD download, the developer gets $0.70 USD. There are a few other prices worldwide (like the UK), so this will not be exact. Any taxes you owe in your location are your responsibility after Apple pays you.
From what folks have said on the forums, Chillingo takes half of the amount that Apple would pay you. But you'll get a lot higher visibility than releasing by yourself, so if they want to publish your game, I'd go for it. Even if you don't get rich, it'd be good to have in your portfolio for future deals.
Good luck!
@krub you should put your game images in your post, most people can not be bothered to go download a RAR of your images from a filesharing site. Your artwork looks good.
Regarding taxes, you should get some advice from an accountant, especially if you end up going with a publisher which gives you a greater potential for financial success. I quickly looked at taxes in Turkey, personal tax is 15-35% and corporate tax is 20%. So why pay potentially 35% when you can reduce this to 20% :-)
In terms of a who takes what illustration:
Customer Pays $0.99
Apple Takes $0.297
Publisher Receives $0.693
Publisher Takes $0.208 (Lets call it 30%)
You Receive $0.485
Potential Tax $0.097 (Corporate Tax 20%)
Your potential take home (Barring any additional personal taxation on getting money out of the company)
$0.388 Per Download
Now you have to look at a publisher as the business cost for your marketing, what you want to get for that cut is to launch your game into the top #10, after that it will sell just for being in front of as many eye balls as possible. In theory if the game is good and enjoyed by the masses then it will stay around in the top charts.
However you have to bear in mind every week X publishers are pushing their next big title launch and hoping to repeat the process.
@ddeaco this may be of interest http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=682816
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