amazing quote from noted oaf "asmongold" in a gamedeveloper piece on streamer-owned publishers. sorry to gatekeep but if you don't understand how nets work i don't think you're ready to weigh in on computer games. get your ass back to the bronze age and STUDY !!!
tbh even leaving aside the absolute clown shoes streamer shit I'm going to say that it's an exceptionally bad idea to offer 30% of your total revenue on your finished game to a "publisher" in exchange for ONLY QA testing and "platform relations". No guaranteed marketing spend? No funding? Fuck off imo. This is literally free money for them, they are putting zero skin in the game
There's a lot of mid-size record labels like this that email me. They always say they're really impressed by where I am as an artist and put forth an offer to go into business together or buy my catalog for a few years. It is all about skimming something off what I worked hard to make and offering nebulous "artist services" in return. And the paid offers for buying my catalog are always a fraction of what I make from owning it myself, like y'all don't think I look at what I'm getting paid?
They want to put their stamp on something that basically already exists and extract value from it. It feels like so much boils down to that right now, for the people with the money