Quote Originally Posted by Druegan View Post
Where does the money go? The largest chunk of it likely goes into Marketing campaigns... the rest likely gets shipped offshore to a bank account in asia somewhere.

Evony LLC might be a "US Based Company".. but big deal.. I, too, can be a "US Based Company".. in Delaware, through The Company Corporation, just like Evony, from anywhere in the world, with no documentation, for relatively little money.

Considering that Evony has to be spending out the ears for all that advertising... and yeah, I know internet advertising is cheap compared to traditional media... the sheer *volume* of it has to represent a significant outlay of cash...

And considering, just from server population numbers, that Evony's "10 million active players" consists of probably 8 million inactive noobs that quit on day 1....

I'd say 50% of Evony's intake gets shipped overseas... The 50% of what's left gets spent on:

50% Marketing
40% Salaries
10% Development, Customer Service, Server Operations, etc..

Just speculating based on performance... Salaries, of course, could be lower.. and marketing could be higher... but I highly doubt any more than 10% of revenues are actually spent on the game in any way, shape, or form.

That is more what I was looking for when making this thread. That does make a lot of sense. Forgot about marketing.