Savage 2 - Not Playing The Retail Game

<strong>[ Interview ]</strong>

<p>RPG Vault has an interview with S2 Games about <a href="http://savage2.s2games.com/" title="Savage 2">Savage 2</a>, a RTS/FPS fantasy hybrid. One of the topics discussed was S2's decision to self-publish.</p><blockquote><p>Jonric: Why did you choose to self-publish and distribute online? What were the main pros and cons associated with this decision?

Marc DeForest: We chose to self-publish to increase our take in the gross revenues of the game. Based upon our past experience with Savage 1, we found that selling the game online achieves a much higher net income. We chose not to play the retail game, which is controlled by very few large players who would rather dump on small operations like us than help make our game a success. We still have hundreds of thousands of dollars in receivables that are well over 180 days old from retailers, and to that, I say no thank you.

The pros of self-publishing are less than 10 percent costs - with no middle men, we can pass saving to our customers (instead of $59.99 or $49.99, we are charging $29.99). The cons are losing a few sales to those people who don't have a credit card, have no access to anyone with a credit card, or don't have a Paypal account. We feel the pros FAR outweigh the cons. </p></blockquote><p>Read: <a href="http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/716/716400p1.html" title="Interview">Savage 2 Interview</a></p><p>Spotted @ <a href="http://www.shacknews.com/">Shack News</a></p>

 

RPG Vault continues their Savage 2 coverage with a couple articles written by Marc DeForest, the lead designer.

Article 1
Article 2

 

Article 3

 

So why is an rpg site previewing it? looking decent though. i enjoyed the last game.

 

tacticular cancer isn't an rpg site you moron.

 

He's talking about RPG Vault.

 

Aye.

 

okok, so I'm the moron. THIS TIME.

 

owned. all that lack of news posting must be rotting your brain astro