Time Travel: 2014

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Lin Hui knew that Huang Jing's so-called cash back was an additional share of T-rex's Journey.

When Lin Hui checked the Pingchun platform exclusive option, he would naturally have 85% of the guaranteed revenue share.

According to the Apple platform exclusivity agreement that Lin Hui and Apple reached previously, the sharing part is described as follows:

“The specific share ratio that Party B (Lin Hui, I will write the protagonist’s name directly below for convenience) obtains from developing the game will be linked to the total revenue of the game developed by Lin Hui.

When the game developed by Lin Hui was chosen to be exclusive on the Apple platform.

If the total revenue of the game developed by Lin Hui (total revenue including game sales, DLC sales, item sales, etc.) is less than US$10 million

Forest ash can only receive 85% of the share;

And if the total revenue of the game developed by Lin Hui (total revenue including game sales, DLC sales, prop sales, etc.) is more than 10 million US dollars

For every US$2 million in total revenue, Lin Hui will receive an additional 1% share.

And so on until the proportion of forest ash reaches 90%.

In particular, if the total revenue of the games developed by Lin Hui exceeds US$50 million, Lin Hui has the conditions to propose adjustments to the share ratio.

The specific adjustment will be based on the conclusions reached by both parties, but in principle the share adjustment ratio shall not be less than 2 percentage points.

The game T-rex's Journey is sold overseas for $2.99.

And so far, the game T-rex's Journey has reached a total of 16.92 million effective downloads overseas.

Even based on the sales price of US$2.99, an inconspicuous game like T-rex's Journey has achieved revenue of US$50.5908 million.

Previously, Lin Hui had already enjoyed 90% of the share of the game T-rex's Journey because its revenue exceeded 20 million US dollars.

According to the previous agreement, Lin Hui seems to be able to get at least two percentage points more as the cumulative revenue now exceeds 50 million US dollars.

Of course, although the contract states that ...in principle, the share adjustment ratio shall not be less than 2 percentage points.

But Lin Hui is very clear that basically the adjustment ratio will not be higher than two percentage points.

After all, even if it’s just another two percentage points.

This also means that Lin Hui will have a whopping 92% share of the game T-rex's Journey.

This is basically the limit.

If you want to have a higher share, apart from Lin Hui's willingness to be crazily squeezed by the platform, I'm afraid the only way is to acquire the platform.

And to acquire Apple? Not realistic.

At least it is very unrealistic at the moment.

When it comes to sharing between the platform and developers.

There is an underlying element that is often overlooked:

——That is, does the platform have sufficient strength?

You know, if the platform for developers to develop applications is not popular enough, it may even be a half-dead platform.

Then even if the platform can grant developers a 95%+ share.

It is also still difficult for developers to achieve profitability.

On the other hand, if a platform is very popular and is keen to allocate certain resources to developers (including but not limited to publicity and distribution, etc.).

Such a platform may be more harsh on developers even in terms of revenue sharing.

But it is still possible for developers to obtain higher profits.

Therefore, when it comes to the proportion of sharing with the platform, we need to look at it dialectically.

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In short, for now, Lin Hui feels that a 92% share is quite enough.

And happiness is mostly obtained through comparison.

Taking the past life as an example, in most cases, developers would not only get 92%, but even getting 70% would be full of twists and turns.

Therefore, Lin Hui seems to be satisfied with the current share ratio.